Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Chemical manufacturing inspected in Washington in 2025

• 10Handlers inspected
• 15Inspections on record
• 11Handlers inspected in 2024
• 4thAmong Washington counties that year

Washington has 10 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2025, across 15 separate inspections. That compares with 11 in 2024. It is the 4th largest of the 26 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 14
• 2018 9
• 2019 14
• 2020 4
• 2021 6
• 2022 10
• 2023 8
• 2024 11
• 2025 10
• 2026 6

Comparable cuts in Washington, 2025

• Utilities 7
• Wood product manufacturing 6
• Paper manufacturing 6
• Petroleum and coal products manufacturing 4
• Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 3
• Primary metal manufacturing 4
• Fabricated metal product manufacturing 18
• Machinery manufacturing 4
• Computer and electronic product manufacturing 7
• Transportation equipment manufacturing 20
• Furniture and related product manufacturing 4
• Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 4
• Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods 5
• Building material and garden supply stores 4
• General merchandise retailers 5
• Truck transportation 3
• Support activities for transportation 5
• Couriers and messengers 3
• Warehousing and storage 4
• Professional, scientific and technical services 6

Inspections recorded in 2025

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.