Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Pierce County, Washington in 2025

• 46Handlers inspected
• 53Inspections on record
• 22Handlers inspected in 2024
• 2ndAmong Washington counties that year

Pierce County, Washington has 46 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2025, across 53 separate inspections. That compares with 22 in 2024. It is the 2nd largest of the 14 Washington 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 20
• 2018 19
• 2019 25
• 2020 8
• 2021 12
• 2022 13
• 2023 22
• 2024 22
• 2025 46
• 2026 28

By what a handler generates, in 2025

• Small quantity generators inspected in Pierce County, Washington 20
• Large quantity generators inspected in Pierce County, Washington 15
• Very small quantity generators inspected in Pierce County, Washington 8

Comparable counties in Washington, 2025

• Benton County 8
• Clark County 19
• Cowlitz County 9
• Grant County 5
• Grays Harbor County 5
• King County 72
• Kitsap County 3
• Skagit County 8
• Snohomish County 20
• Spokane County 15
• Thurston County 6
• Whatcom County 6
• Yakima County 10

Inspections recorded in 2025

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.