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P017 RCRA waste code Tear-gas liquid, thrown away unused.

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P017, Bromoacetone.

  • Acute hazardousP-listed waste

    Bromoacetone

P-list unused product.

Acute hazardous P-listed waste for unused bromoacetone, a toxic liquid once used as a tear gas. Discarded product only.

Is P017 hazardous waste?

Yes, when the listing applies. Unused bromoacetone thrown away is P017, including off-specification product and qualifying residues. The P listing makes it acute hazardous waste, so the stricter acute quantities apply even to a small amount.

On a required hazardous waste manifest, put P017 in Item 13. The VSQG exemptions and empty-container rules and the rules for pharmaceutical containers may also matter.

What does P017 cover?

This covers unused bromoacetone thrown away as pure or technical grade, or in a formulation where it is the only active ingredient. Off-specification batches, residues left in containers that aren’t empty, and spill cleanup residues from those products count too. Inactive ingredients don’t change the sole-active-ingredient test.

CAS
598-31-2
Table entries
Bromoacetone; 2-Propanone, 1-bromo-
Hazard codes in the record
H (acute hazardous)

Is bromoacetone waste always P017?

CodeWhen it fits
P017The unused chemical is thrown away, as pure or technical grade or as the sole active ingredient. Qualifying product residues fit too.
Characteristic waste (D001–D043)A used chemical or a different formulation meets a hazardous-waste characteristic. Check any process listings that apply too.

Both rows can apply at once, since a listed unused product can also show a characteristic. Having this chemical in a manufacturing waste doesn’t make that waste P017. Match the waste’s origin, formulation and use history. Mixing a listed waste with solid waste, or treating it, usually doesn’t remove the listing. That takes an exclusion, an exception or an approved delisting.