Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Essex County, New Jersey in 2025

• 32Handlers inspected
• 44Inspections on record
• 43Handlers inspected in 2024
• 8thAmong New Jersey counties that year

Essex County, New Jersey has 32 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2025, across 44 separate inspections. That compares with 43 in 2024. It is the 8th largest of the 21 New Jersey counties with three or more handlers inspected that year. Each row below carries the date the inspection was recorded, the agency that recorded it and the kind of inspection it was.

Other years

• 2017 55
• 2018 40
• 2019 50
• 2020 24
• 2021 40
• 2022 47
• 2023 43
• 2024 43
• 2025 32
• 2026 26

By what a handler generates, in 2025

• Small quantity generators inspected in Essex County, New Jersey 13
• Large quantity generators inspected in Essex County, New Jersey 9
• Very small quantity generators inspected in Essex County, New Jersey 9

Comparable counties in New Jersey, 2025

• Union County 32
• Passaic County 33
• Camden County 34
• Gloucester County 34
• Somerset County 27
• Burlington County 39
• Mercer County 25
• Morris County 41

Inspections recorded in 2025

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.