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112 British Columbia codes, each naming a hazardous waste, such as pickling sludges & distillation residues.

How are British Columbia waste codes identified?

B.C. identifies waste by TDG shipping description, Schedule 7 Type or statutory waste name.

How is British Columbia hazardous waste collected and shipped?

B.C. shipping names depend on the route. A TDG name applies where TDG does, a Schedule 7 Type names listed process wastes, and the statutory name covers other non-TDG hazardous wastes. A B.C. manifest is needed only when the section 46 quantity and transport conditions are met, and qualifying EPR shipments can use the specified alternative document.

When is British Columbia waste excluded or below the paperwork threshold?

Place	Exclusions, thresholds and applicable routes
British Columbia	Except for sections 17.1 and 46(1), the regulation doesn't apply to hazardous waste produced or accumulated at less than 5 kg or 5 L in a 30-day period. This exempts the rest of the regulation and is not the section 46 manifest threshold. Section 46(1) still applies. 2(5) A manifest is needed only above the prescribed quantity for the category. That means more than 5 kg of solid hazardous waste other than waste batteries, more than 5 L of liquid hazardous waste other than waste oil or waste paint, more than fits in a container with a total liquid capacity of 5 L, more than 210 L of waste oil, any quantity of liquid or solid hazardous waste containing 500 g or more of PCB, more than 1,000 kg of waste batteries, or more than 210 L of waste paint. 46(1) Section 10 of the Act doesn't apply in 4 cases. The waste stays on property the consignor owns, leases or controls and travels less than 100 km. It travels on a public road for less than 3 km. A homeowner or farmer takes it directly from the residence or farm to the specified government, municipal, return-collection or temporary-collection route. Or it is park-generated moderate risk waste that a park employee or agent takes directly to an authorized facility. 46(2) Household refuse collected from residential premises is excluded from the hazardous-waste definition. 1, hazardous waste definition (j) Domestic sewage is excluded from the hazardous-waste definition. 1, hazardous waste definition (k) Defective, surplus or otherwise unusable dangerous goods are excluded while being returned directly to a manufacturer or supplier. 1, hazardous waste definition (l) The biomedical-waste definition excludes animal-husbandry waste and household waste. It also excludes waste controlled under the Health of Animals Act, and food-production, general-building-maintenance and office-administration waste. Specified disinfected or decontaminated microbiology, blood, body-fluid and sharps waste is excluded, as is certified animal waste without the listed risk-group agents. So are human and animal teeth, hair and similar materials, and human urine or feces. 1, biomedical waste definition (k) to (s) Asphalts and tars used in the manufacture of asphaltic concrete and roofing materials are excluded. 1, hazardous waste definition (m) Waste wood products treated with wood preservatives or wood protection products registered under the Pest Control Products Act are excluded. 1, hazardous waste definition (p) Hazardous waste removed from a return collection facility with the owner's consent for reuse for its originally intended purpose is excluded. 1, hazardous waste definition (q) Wood ash, pulp-mill dregs and grit are excluded where they would be hazardous waste only because TDG classifies them as Class 8. 1, hazardous waste definition (r) Waste with pH from 2.0 through 12.5 is excluded where it would be hazardous waste only because TDG Class 8 classification results from pH. 1, hazardous waste definition (s) Contaminated soil, sediment, surface water or groundwater that remains at its site of origin is excluded. Ex situ on-site media is also outside paragraph (i.2) while stored for transport from the contaminated site within 60 days (or an approved period), for remediation under the Contaminated Sites Regulation, or for another approved purpose. 1, hazardous waste definition (t) and 1(3) When TDG applies, use the TDG shipping name, UN number, class and packing group or infectious-substance category. For non-TDG hazardous waste, take the name from paragraphs (b) to (i) of the hazardous-waste definition. A Schedule 7 waste uses its Type number. 1, shipping name definition; 45.1 Qualifying moderate risk waste managed under an extended producer responsibility plan may use the section 42.52 shipping document instead of a manifest only when the transport also meets the section 42.51 licence exemption and every shipping-document condition is met. 1(4), 42.51 and 42.52 A recycling facility is exempt from Parts 2 and 3 and Division 1 of Part 4 only if the hazardous constituents are normally in, or produced by, its process feed and, for an off-site facility, hazardous waste is less than 5% by weight of all process feed. 2(7) A refurbished lead-acid battery suitable for reuse is not subject to hazardous-waste requirements until it becomes waste again. Waste batteries remain subject to the storage and shipping conditions in section 39.8. 39.6 to 39.8 For e-waste managed under an extended producer responsibility plan, the listed storage and transport provisions, including Part 7 manifests, do not apply until delivery to an e-waste processing facility. This route doesn't cover unsealed lead-acid batteries, sealed lead-acid batteries of 5 kg or more, or other batteries of 5 kg or more unless they are in equipment or a device. A director may also restore the requirements. 39.11 and 39.2 Waste lightbulbs containing mercury that are not intentionally crushed or broken follow section 39.11, so its listed storage and transport provisions, including Part 7 manifests, do not apply until delivery to an e-waste processing facility. Facilities accepting the lamps must retain evidence that staff are adequately trained. Paragraph (i.4) covers lamps managed under an extended producer responsibility plan without limiting the leachable-toxic route. 39.31 and 39.4 Waste asbestos is friable asbestos fibre or dust above 1% by weight. Section 40 specifies the test methods and the containment, immediate burial, landfill-owner agreement and director authorization required for disposal outside a secure landfill. 40 Waste oil may be used in pavement manufacture or burned as fuel only under section 41. Mixing, specifications, approval and analytical-record requirements still apply. Recycling does not remove waste oil from the hazardous-waste definition. 41 Hydrocarbon-contaminated soil meeting the section 41.1 limits may be treated or stored at an authorized landfill or facility, or used in asphalt, only with the stated notice, sole-hazard, layer-depth and feed-percentage conditions. Treated soil that is no longer hazardous may go to a landfill with owner approval and director authorization. 41.1 Waste-paint treatment and recycling is authorized at facilities owned and operated by a paint manufacturer or formulator. Recycling without approval is limited by the PCB, lead, mercury and organic-chloride specifications, and needs records and annual reporting. 42.1 A pest-control-product container is not hazardous waste after it is emptied and rinsed by the section 42 method, or after a manufacturer-labelled Domestic container is emptied. Section 42 separately sets the hazard criteria for product waste and the recycling, disposal and rinsate routes. 42(3) to (7)

Place

Exclusions, thresholds and applicable routes

British Columbia

Except for sections 17.1 and 46(1), the regulation doesn't apply to hazardous waste produced or accumulated at less than 5 kg or 5 L in a 30-day period. This exempts the rest of the regulation and is not the section 46 manifest threshold. Section 46(1) still applies. 2(5) A manifest is needed only above the prescribed quantity for the category. That means more than 5 kg of solid hazardous waste other than waste batteries, more than 5 L of liquid hazardous waste other than waste oil or waste paint, more than fits in a container with a total liquid capacity of 5 L, more than 210 L of waste oil, any quantity of liquid or solid hazardous waste containing 500 g or more of PCB, more than 1,000 kg of waste batteries, or more than 210 L of waste paint. 46(1) Section 10 of the Act doesn't apply in 4 cases. The waste stays on property the consignor owns, leases or controls and travels less than 100 km. It travels on a public road for less than 3 km. A homeowner or farmer takes it directly from the residence or farm to the specified government, municipal, return-collection or temporary-collection route. Or it is park-generated moderate risk waste that a park employee or agent takes directly to an authorized facility. 46(2) Household refuse collected from residential premises is excluded from the hazardous-waste definition. 1, hazardous waste definition (j) Domestic sewage is excluded from the hazardous-waste definition. 1, hazardous waste definition (k) Defective, surplus or otherwise unusable dangerous goods are excluded while being returned directly to a manufacturer or supplier. 1, hazardous waste definition (l) The biomedical-waste definition excludes animal-husbandry waste and household waste. It also excludes waste controlled under the Health of Animals Act, and food-production, general-building-maintenance and office-administration waste. Specified disinfected or decontaminated microbiology, blood, body-fluid and sharps waste is excluded, as is certified animal waste without the listed risk-group agents. So are human and animal teeth, hair and similar materials, and human urine or feces. 1, biomedical waste definition (k) to (s) Asphalts and tars used in the manufacture of asphaltic concrete and roofing materials are excluded. 1, hazardous waste definition (m) Waste wood products treated with wood preservatives or wood protection products registered under the Pest Control Products Act are excluded. 1, hazardous waste definition (p) Hazardous waste removed from a return collection facility with the owner's consent for reuse for its originally intended purpose is excluded. 1, hazardous waste definition (q) Wood ash, pulp-mill dregs and grit are excluded where they would be hazardous waste only because TDG classifies them as Class 8. 1, hazardous waste definition (r) Waste with pH from 2.0 through 12.5 is excluded where it would be hazardous waste only because TDG Class 8 classification results from pH. 1, hazardous waste definition (s) Contaminated soil, sediment, surface water or groundwater that remains at its site of origin is excluded. Ex situ on-site media is also outside paragraph (i.2) while stored for transport from the contaminated site within 60 days (or an approved period), for remediation under the Contaminated Sites Regulation, or for another approved purpose. 1, hazardous waste definition (t) and 1(3) When TDG applies, use the TDG shipping name, UN number, class and packing group or infectious-substance category. For non-TDG hazardous waste, take the name from paragraphs (b) to (i) of the hazardous-waste definition. A Schedule 7 waste uses its Type number. 1, shipping name definition; 45.1 Qualifying moderate risk waste managed under an extended producer responsibility plan may use the section 42.52 shipping document instead of a manifest only when the transport also meets the section 42.51 licence exemption and every shipping-document condition is met. 1(4), 42.51 and 42.52 A recycling facility is exempt from Parts 2 and 3 and Division 1 of Part 4 only if the hazardous constituents are normally in, or produced by, its process feed and, for an off-site facility, hazardous waste is less than 5% by weight of all process feed. 2(7) A refurbished lead-acid battery suitable for reuse is not subject to hazardous-waste requirements until it becomes waste again. Waste batteries remain subject to the storage and shipping conditions in section 39.8. 39.6 to 39.8 For e-waste managed under an extended producer responsibility plan, the listed storage and transport provisions, including Part 7 manifests, do not apply until delivery to an e-waste processing facility. This route doesn't cover unsealed lead-acid batteries, sealed lead-acid batteries of 5 kg or more, or other batteries of 5 kg or more unless they are in equipment or a device. A director may also restore the requirements. 39.11 and 39.2 Waste lightbulbs containing mercury that are not intentionally crushed or broken follow section 39.11, so its listed storage and transport provisions, including Part 7 manifests, do not apply until delivery to an e-waste processing facility. Facilities accepting the lamps must retain evidence that staff are adequately trained. Paragraph (i.4) covers lamps managed under an extended producer responsibility plan without limiting the leachable-toxic route. 39.31 and 39.4 Waste asbestos is friable asbestos fibre or dust above 1% by weight. Section 40 specifies the test methods and the containment, immediate burial, landfill-owner agreement and director authorization required for disposal outside a secure landfill. 40 Waste oil may be used in pavement manufacture or burned as fuel only under section 41. Mixing, specifications, approval and analytical-record requirements still apply. Recycling does not remove waste oil from the hazardous-waste definition. 41 Hydrocarbon-contaminated soil meeting the section 41.1 limits may be treated or stored at an authorized landfill or facility, or used in asphalt, only with the stated notice, sole-hazard, layer-depth and feed-percentage conditions. Treated soil that is no longer hazardous may go to a landfill with owner approval and director authorization. 41.1 Waste-paint treatment and recycling is authorized at facilities owned and operated by a paint manufacturer or formulator. Recycling without approval is limited by the PCB, lead, mercury and organic-chloride specifications, and needs records and annual reporting. 42.1 A pest-control-product container is not hazardous waste after it is emptied and rinsed by the section 42 method, or after a manufacturer-labelled Domestic container is emptied. Section 42 separately sets the hazard criteria for product waste and the recycling, disposal and rinsate routes. 42(3) to (7)

What applies to loads leaving British Columbia?

For loads leaving British Columbia, read the Federal exclusions and movement documents.

British Columbia’s 112 waste codes

Grouped by the schedule or class list each comes from. Each code links to its page.

B.C. hazardous-waste definition routes 13 codes

B.C. hazardous-waste definition routes: what each code covers

B.C. Schedule 7 wastes 99 codes

B.C. Schedule 7 wastes: what each code covers