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P108 RCRA waste code Rodent poison from the nux vomica seed, with its salts.

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P108, Strychnine and salts — a poison used as a rodenticide.

  • Acute hazardousP-listed waste

    Strychnine and salts — a poison used as a rodenticide

P-list unused product.

Listed withP-listed wasteAcute hazardous waste codes

Acute hazardous P-listed waste for unused strychnine & its salts, a toxic rodenticide. Only unused product takes P108.

Is P108 hazardous waste?

Yes, when the listing applies. P108 is for unused strychnine and salts 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 P108 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 P108 cover?

It covers unused strychnine and salts 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
57-24-9
Table entries
Strychnidin-10-one, & salts; Strychnine, & salts
Hazard codes in the record
H (acute hazardous)
CAS qualification
The table gives the parent compound's CAS. It doesn't cover every salt or derivative.

Is strychnine and salts waste P108 or another code?

CodeWhen it fits
P108Thrown 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 P108. 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. The parent compound's CAS doesn't prove every salt shares that number, so the listed chemical wording decides. The numerical table prints CAS 157-24-9, while the alphabetical entry gives strychnine as 57-24-9, which is used here.

Which codes sit beside P108?

CodeWhat it is
P103Selenourea
P104Silver cyanide
P105Sodium azide
P106Sodium cyanide
P109Tetraethyldithiopyrophosphate
P110Tetraethyl lead — an anti-knock gasoline additive
P111Tetraethyl pyrophosphate
P112Tetranitromethane

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