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R10 federal recycling code Spreading waste on soil to improve crops or habitat.

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R10, Land treatment resulting in agricultural or ecological improvement.

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    Land treatment resulting in agricultural or ecological improvement

Use R10 when the intended operation is land treatment resulting in agricultural or ecological improvement.

Land treatment that leaves the ground better for farming or ecology. It is a recycling operation, not disposal.

Where does Federal recycling R10 go on the federal notification?

In the waste classification details. Federal recycling R10 describes a waste or recyclable line on the federal notification. It records the recycling operation, and doesn't decide whether the material is hazardous.

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

What does Federal recycling R10 cover?

This value records land treatment resulting in agricultural or ecological improvement as the recycling operation. Choose it from the activity, reason, physical state or intended operation on that waste line, not from the waste name alone.

Official wording
Land treatment resulting in agricultural or ecological improvement.

Is land treatment for agricultural or ecological improvement Federal recycling R10?

CodeWhen it fits
R10The receiving facility will perform land treatment resulting in agricultural or ecological improvement.

R10 records the recycling operation planned at the receiving facility. It doesn't describe the waste or decide whether it is hazardous.

Which codes sit beside Federal recycling R10?

CodeWhat it is
R6Regeneration of acids or bases
R7Recovery of components used for pollution abatement
R8Recovery of components from catalysts
R9Re-refining or re-use of used oil
R11Use of residual material obtained by an operation
R12Interim exchange of a recyclable material for another recyclable material
R13Interim accumulation
RC1Recovery or regeneration of a substance