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P030 RCRA waste code Cyanide salts that dissolve in water and no other P code names.

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P030, Cyanides (soluble cyanide salts), not otherwise specified.

  • Acute hazardousP-listed waste

    Cyanides (soluble cyanide salts), not otherwise specified

P-list unused product.

Acute hazardous P-listed waste for unused soluble cyanide salts not named elsewhere, such as those used in plating & metal treatment.

Is P030 hazardous waste?

Yes, when the listing applies. Unused soluble cyanide salts thrown away is P030, 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 P030 in Item 13. The VSQG exemptions and empty-container rules and the rules for pharmaceutical containers may also matter.

What does P030 cover?

This covers unused soluble cyanide salts that no other P code names, thrown away. That includes pure or technical-grade products and formulations where the salt is the only active ingredient, plus off-specification product and qualifying container and spill cleanup residues. A cyanide named in its own listing is assessed under that listing instead.

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Table entries
Cyanides (soluble cyanide salts), not otherwise specified
Hazard codes in the record
H (acute hazardous)

Is soluble cyanide salt waste always P030?

CodeWhen it fits
P030The 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 P030. 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.