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B1120 Basel waste code Spent solid catalysts holding transition metals or rare earths.

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B1120, Spent solid catalysts with specified metals.

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    Spent solid catalysts with specified metals

Use B1120 for spent solid catalysts with specified metals as a Basel List B waste without an Annex III hazard.

Listed withBasel List B codes

Basel List B code for spent solid catalysts with metals such as nickel, cobalt, copper or titanium, or rare earths. No liquids.

Is Basel B1120 hazardous waste?

Not from the code alone. Basel B1120 is on Basel List B, so material that matches it is normally outside the Convention's hazardous definition. That changes if Annex I constituents give it an Annex III hazardous characteristic. SOR/2021-25, including its exclusions, decides Canadian federal control.

On a federally regulated international shipment, the applicant enters the waste classification in the waste line of the federal notification in CNMTS. The movement rules and exclusions still apply.

What does Basel B1120 cover?

Covers spent catalysts that contain a listed transition metal or lanthanide. Catalyst liquids are not covered. The transition metals are rhenium, tantalum, molybdenum, zirconium, zinc, nickel, iron, chromium, titanium, tungsten, hafnium, niobium, yttrium, copper, cobalt, manganese, vanadium and scandium. List A catalysts are excluded. The lanthanides are lutetium, thulium, holmium, terbium, europium, neodymium, cerium, ytterbium, erbium, dysprosium, gadolinium, samarium, praseodymium and lanthanum.

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Is spent catalyst with metals Basel B1120?

CodeWhen it fits
B1120Spent catalysts, but not catalyst liquids, that contain a listed transition metal or lanthanide.

List B is conditional. It isn't an exemption label. If the material has an Annex III hazardous characteristic, or meets another Canadian or foreign hazardous-waste definition, classify the actual hazard and follow the movement rules that control.

Which codes sit beside Basel B1120?

CodeWhat it is
B1090Specification-grade batteries without lead, cadmium or mercury
B1100Specified metal-production residues
B1110Qualifying electrical and electronic assemblies
B1115Qualifying plastic-coated waste cable
B1130Cleaned spent precious-metal catalyst
B1140Solid precious-metal residue with trace cyanide
B1150Packaged dispersible precious-metal waste
B1160Precious-metal ash from burnt circuit boards

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