Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Shelby County, Tennessee in 2026

• 34Handlers inspected
• 51Inspections on record
• 46Handlers inspected in 2025
• 1stAmong Tennessee counties that year

Shelby County, Tennessee has 34 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2026, across 51 separate inspections. That compares with 46 in 2025. It is the 1st largest of the 26 Tennessee 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 45
• 2018 41
• 2019 46
• 2020 33
• 2021 60
• 2022 41
• 2023 48
• 2024 45
• 2025 46
• 2026 34

By what a handler generates, in 2026

• Large quantity generators inspected in Shelby County, Tennessee 15
• Small quantity generators inspected in Shelby County, Tennessee 14
• Very small quantity generators inspected in Shelby County, Tennessee 5

Comparable counties in Tennessee, 2026

• Hamilton County 26
• Davidson County 22
• Knox County 18
• Blount County 14
• Rutherford County 11
• Sullivan County 10
• Roane County 7
• Madison County 6

Inspections recorded in 2026

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.