Hazardous waste · by state

Hazardous waste handlers in Arizona

• 3,751Handlers
• 218Large quantity generators
• 8TSD facilities
• 641With a recorded violation

Arizona holds 3,751 of the 444,130 regulated hazardous waste handlers in the United States, which makes it the 27th largest state by handler count. 218 of them are large quantity generators — the sites producing more than 1,000 kilograms of hazardous waste a month — and 15 counties in Arizona have three or more handlers.

By what a handler does in Arizona

• Large quantity generators in Arizona 218
• Small quantity generators in Arizona 818
• Very small quantity generators in Arizona 2,651
• Hazardous waste transporters in Arizona 102
• Treatment, storage and disposal facilities in Arizona 8

By county

• Maricopa County 2,366
• Pima County 529
• Pinal County 156
• Mohave County 126
• Yavapai County 126
• Yuma County 106
• Coconino County 97
• Cochise County 51
• Navajo County 44
• Santa Cruz County 29
• Gila County 27
• La Paz County 20
• Graham County 15
• Apache County 6
• Greenlee County 5

By industry in Arizona

• General merchandise retailers 165
• Health and personal care stores 108
• Building material and garden supply stores 107
• Repair and maintenance 94
• Utilities 86
• Food and beverage retailers 74
• Fabricated metal product manufacturing 66
• Educational services 50
• Chemical manufacturing 46
• Motor vehicle and parts dealers 46
• Personal and laundry services 43
• Professional, scientific and technical services 42
• Hospitals 42
• Transportation equipment manufacturing 40
• Computer and electronic product manufacturing 39
• Waste management and remediation 31
• Health and personal care retailers 30
• Mining and quarrying 28
• Couriers and messengers 28
• Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods 24
• Ambulatory health care services 24
• Truck transportation 23
• Warehousing and storage 22
• Machinery manufacturing 20
• Miscellaneous manufacturing 20
• Primary metal manufacturing 17
• Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 17
• Support activities for transportation 17
• Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 16
• Printing and related support 14

Inspections and violations in Arizona, year by year

• Inspections in Arizona, every year 10 years
• Violations in Arizona, every year 10 years
• Inspections in Arizona in 2026 86
• Inspections in Arizona in 2025 175
• Inspections in Arizona in 2024 149
• Inspections in Arizona in 2023 114
• Inspections in Arizona in 2022 140
• Inspections in Arizona in 2021 171
• Inspections in Arizona in 2020 164
• Inspections in Arizona in 2019 181
• Inspections in Arizona in 2018 62
• Inspections in Arizona in 2017 73

By the rule cited in Arizona

• Standards for generators (40 CFR 262) 337
• Standards for generators (40 CFR 262) 117
• RCRA violation FSS 44
• Universal waste management (40 CFR 273) 25
• Standards for permitted TSD facilities (40 CFR 264) 24
• Standards for generators (40 CFR 262) 20
• Standards for generators (40 CFR 262) 11
• Identification of hazardous waste (40 CFR 261) 10
• Land disposal restrictions (40 CFR 268) 9
• Standards for transporters (40 CFR 263) 7
• Interim status TSD standards (40 CFR 265) 6
• Used oil management (40 CFR 279) 6
• Standards for generators (40 CFR 262) 4

Handlers

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.