P106 RCRA waste code Cyanide salt for plating & gold mining, thrown away unused.
- Free, no account
- Based on 40 CFR 261.33 and EPA guidance
- Nothing is stored
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P106, Sodium cyanide.
Acute hazardousP-listed waste
Sodium cyanide
P-list unused product.
ComplyOnSiteIs P106 hazardous waste?
Yes, when the listing applies. P106 is for unused sodium cyanide that is thrown away, including off-specification product and qualifying residues. It is acute hazardous waste, so the stricter acute quantities apply even for a small amount.
Put P106 in Item 13 of a required hazardous waste manifest. The VSQG exemptions and empty-container rules and pharmaceutical containers have their own limits.
What does P106 cover?
It covers unused sodium cyanide thrown away pure, at technical grade, or in a formulation where it is the only active ingredient. It also takes in off-specification batches, residues left in nonempty containers and cleanup residues from spills of these products. Inactive ingredients don't stop it counting as the only active ingredient.
- CAS
- 143-33-9
- Table entries
- Sodium cyanide / Sodium cyanide Na(CN)
- Hazard codes in the record
- H (acute hazardous)
- Rule
- 40 CFR 261.33(e)
Is sodium cyanide waste P106 or another code?
| Code | When it fits |
|---|---|
| P106 | Thrown away unused, pure or technical grade, or as the only active ingredient. Qualifying product residues count too. |
| Characteristic waste (D001–D043) | A used chemical or a different formulation that meets a hazardous-waste characteristic. Any process listings that apply count too. |
Both rows can apply at once, because a listed unused product can also have a characteristic. Having this chemical in a manufacturing waste doesn't make the waste P106. Match the waste's origin, formulation and use history. Mixing or treating listed waste generally doesn't remove the listing. That takes an exclusion, an exception or an approved delisting.
Which codes sit beside P106?
| Code | What it is |
|---|---|
| P102 | Propargyl alcohol |
| P103 | Selenourea |
| P104 | Silver cyanide |
| P105 | Sodium azide |
| P108 | Strychnine and salts — a poison used as a rodenticide |
| P109 | Tetraethyldithiopyrophosphate |
| P110 | Tetraethyl lead — an anti-knock gasoline additive |
| P111 | Tetraethyl pyrophosphate |
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