Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Chemical manufacturing inspected in North Carolina in 2025

• 48Handlers inspected
• 102Inspections on record
• 51Handlers inspected in 2024
• 1stAmong North Carolina counties that year

North Carolina has 48 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2025, across 102 separate inspections. That compares with 51 in 2024. It is the 1st largest of the 29 North Carolina 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 46
• 2018 41
• 2019 42
• 2020 38
• 2021 34
• 2022 47
• 2023 53
• 2024 51
• 2025 48
• 2026 34

Comparable cuts in North Carolina, 2025

• Textile mills 4
• Wood product manufacturing 6
• Printing and related support 6
• Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 9
• Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing 7
• Primary metal manufacturing 10
• Fabricated metal product manufacturing 23
• Machinery manufacturing 10
• Computer and electronic product manufacturing 5
• Electrical equipment and appliance manufacturing 5
• Transportation equipment manufacturing 15
• Furniture and related product manufacturing 18
• Miscellaneous manufacturing 7
• Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 4
• Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods 7
• Motor vehicle and parts dealers 5
• General merchandise retailers 3
• Truck transportation 9
• Pipeline transportation 3
• Warehousing and storage 11

Inspections recorded in 2025

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.