California automotive lead-acid batteries Car & truck batteries with lead plates and sulfuric acid.
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- California Title 22 and DTSC guidance
- Nothing is stored
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Automotive lead-acid batteries: 0 codes.
Automotive lead-acid batteries
Automotive batteries have their own quantity and shipping rules. See lead-acid battery guidance.
Send intact automotive batteries to a recipient for storage, reuse, recycling or reclamation. Disposal or processing uses full hazardous waste management, with a code confirmed by composition.
ComplyOnSiteWhich California code fits automotive lead-acid batteries?
Appendix XII has no battery-specific entry. For fully regulated battery waste, confirm the code by composition.
The classification and shipping rules still apply.
When do California automotive battery quantity exemptions apply?
Intact automotive batteries sent for storage, reuse, recycling or reclamation follow 66266.80–.81, not the universal waste rules. The activity exemption allows no more than 10 automotive-size batteries generated per year, stored at once or carried at once in one vehicle.
The batteries must go for storage, reuse, recycling or reclamation. Other recycling shipments need a manifest or qualifying bill of lading kept for 3 years.
Which automotive lead-acid battery activities need full hazardous waste management in California?
Disposal, electrolyte removal and other processing follow the full hazardous waste rules, and the code is confirmed by composition. Forklift and large utility batteries and small sealed lead-acid batteries take the universal-waste route.
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