Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 2026

• 40Handlers inspected
• 43Inspections on record
• 69Handlers inspected in 2025
• 2ndAmong Pennsylvania counties that year

Berks County, Pennsylvania has 40 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2026, across 43 separate inspections. That compares with 69 in 2025. It is the 2nd largest of the 47 Pennsylvania 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 90
• 2018 48
• 2019 31
• 2020 29
• 2021 30
• 2022 40
• 2023 89
• 2024 102
• 2025 69
• 2026 40

By what a handler generates, in 2026

• Very small quantity generators inspected in Berks County, Pennsylvania 15
• Small quantity generators inspected in Berks County, Pennsylvania 13
• Large quantity generators inspected in Berks County, Pennsylvania 12

Comparable counties in Pennsylvania, 2026

• Allegheny County 40
• Armstrong County 5
• Beaver County 10
• Bedford County 3
• Blair County 8
• Bradford County 5
• Bucks County 29
• Butler County 3
• Cambria County 5
• Carbon County 6
• Centre County 16
• Chester County 18
• Clarion County 6
• Clearfield County 10
• Clinton County 3
• Cumberland County 26
• Dauphin County 19
• Delaware County 32
• Elk County 3
• Erie County 9

Inspections recorded in 2026

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.