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P020 RCRA waste code Toxic weed killer for crops, thrown away unused.

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P020, Dinoseb — a herbicide.

  • Acute hazardousP-listed waste

    Dinoseb — a herbicide

P-list unused product.

Acute hazardous P-listed waste for unused dinoseb, a herbicide. Discarded pesticide product is the usual source.

Is P020 hazardous waste?

Yes, when the listing applies. Unused dinoseb thrown away is P020, 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 P020 in Item 13. The VSQG exemptions and empty-container rules and the rules for pharmaceutical containers may also matter.

What does P020 cover?

This covers unused dinoseb 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
88-85-7
Table entries
Dinoseb; Phenol, 2-(1-methylpropyl)-4,6-dinitro-
Hazard codes in the record
H (acute hazardous)

Is dinoseb waste always P020?

CodeWhen it fits
P020The 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 P020. 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.