Hazardous waste · California · inspections

Hazardous waste inspections in California, year by year

• 10Years
• 1,113Busiest year

State and federal inspectors visit hazardous waste handlers in California every year, and each year below lists the sites they went to. The busiest was 2024, when 1,113 separate handlers were inspected. An inspection is recorded on the date the visit happened, so a year here is the year of the visit rather than of any citation that followed it.

By year

• Inspections in California in 2026 614 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2025 1,062 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2024 1,113 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2023 946 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2022 997 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2021 840 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2020 633 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2019 916 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2018 808 handlers
• Inspections in California in 2017 746 handlers

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Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.