Universal Waste

EPA’s universal waste regulations streamline the hazardous waste management standards for certain categories of hazardous waste that are commonly generated by a wide variety of establishments. The streamlined regulations:

  • promote the collection and recycling of universal waste,

  • ease the regulatory burden on retail stores and other generators that wish to collect these wastes and transporters of these wastes, and

  • encourage the development of municipal and commercial programs to reduce the quantity of these wastes going to municipal solid waste landfills or combustors.

The federal universal waste regulations are found in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in part 273

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and apply to five types of universal waste:

  • Batteries

  • Pesticides

  • Mercury-Containing Equipment

  • Lamps/Bulbs*

  • Aerosol Cans (Missouri has not yet adopted the changes to aerosol cans)

* We recommend submitting a Work Order through Facilities Management to handle spent lamps. They are trained to handle spent lamps.