P031 RCRA waste code Toxic, flammable gas made of carbon & nitrogen, thrown away unused.
- Free, no account
- Based on 40 CFR 261.33 and EPA guidance
- Nothing is stored
Find a federal hazardous waste code
P031, Cyanogen.
Acute hazardousP-listed waste
Cyanogen
P-list unused product.
ComplyOnSiteIs P031 hazardous waste?
Yes, when the listing applies. Unused cyanogen thrown away is P031, 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 P031 in Item 13. The VSQG exemptions and empty-container rules and the rules for pharmaceutical containers may also matter.
What does P031 cover?
This covers unused cyanogen 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
- 460-19-5
- Table entries
- Cyanogen and Ethanedinitrile
- Hazard codes in the record
- H (acute hazardous)
- Rule
- 40 CFR 261.33(e)
Is cyanogen waste always P031?
| Code | When it fits |
|---|---|
| P031 | The 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 P031. 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.
Which codes sit beside P031?
| Code | What it is |
|---|---|
| P027 | 3-Chloropropionitrile |
| P028 | Benzyl chloride |
| P029 | Copper cyanide |
| P030 | Cyanides (soluble cyanide salts), not otherwise specified |
| P033 | Cyanogen chloride |
| P034 | 2-Cyclohexyl-4,6-dinitrophenol |
| P036 | Dichlorophenylarsine |
| P037 | Dieldrin — an insecticide |
Sources
- 40 CFR 261.33 — Discarded commercial chemical products, off-specification species, container residues, and spill residues thereof
- 40 CFR 261.3 — Definition of hazardous waste
- 40 CFR 261.7 — Residues of hazardous waste in empty containers
- 40 CFR 260.10 — Definitions
- 40 CFR 262.14 — Conditions for exemption for a very small quantity generator
- 40 CFR 262.20 — General requirements
- 40 CFR 266.507 — Residues of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals in empty containers
- Hazardous Waste Manifest Instructions