Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Fabricated metal product manufacturing inspected in California in 2025

• 112Handlers inspected
• 175Inspections on record
• 104Handlers inspected in 2024
• 1stAmong California counties that year

California has 112 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2025, across 175 separate inspections. That compares with 104 in 2024. It is the 1st largest of the 31 California 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 85
• 2018 100
• 2019 116
• 2020 70
• 2021 100
• 2022 104
• 2023 55
• 2024 104
• 2025 112
• 2026 53

Comparable cuts in California, 2025

• Mining and quarrying 3
• Utilities 24
• Specialty trade contractors 5
• Food manufacturing 7
• Paper manufacturing 3
• Petroleum and coal products manufacturing 13
• Chemical manufacturing 49
• Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 4
• Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing 3
• Primary metal manufacturing 17
• Machinery manufacturing 7
• Computer and electronic product manufacturing 38
• Transportation equipment manufacturing 40
• Miscellaneous manufacturing 10
• Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 9
• Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods 10
• Building material and garden supply stores 4
• General merchandise retailers 10
• Health and personal care retailers 112
• Air transportation 3

Inspections recorded in 2025

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.