Texas form code 005 Expired or unwanted drugs, bagged for hazardous disposal.
- Free, no account
- Based on Texas Appendix 3 and TCEQ RG-022
- Nothing is stored
Find a Texas waste code
005, Hazardous waste pharmaceuticals.
Lab packs
Hazardous waste pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals managed as hazardous waste.
ComplyOnSiteWhere does Texas form code 005 go in the Texas waste code?
In characters 5–7. The 8-character code is a 4-character stream sequence, the 3-digit form 005 and a final class character. Form 005 sits in the lab packs category.
Waste under this form is managed as hazardous waste, but the digits don't make a waste hazardous. Show that separately.
For a hazardous or Class 1 shipment on a Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest, enter the full Texas code in Item 13, across 2 blocks on paper. Add the EPA waste codes beside it. The 3 form digits alone are incomplete.
The generator sets the class from exclusions, then federal hazardous-waste listings and characteristics, then Texas industrial-waste criteria. H means hazardous. 1, 2 and 3 are the nonhazardous industrial classes. Process knowledge or testing supports the decision.
What does Texas form code 005 cover?
Waste pharmaceuticals managed as hazardous waste. Record the medicine and why it is hazardous, including its status under the pharmaceutical rules where that changes the route.
- Category
- lab packs
- Official wording
- Appendix 3, form 005
- Coding guidance
- RG-022, Chapter 5 and Appendix F
Is a waste pharmaceutical always Texas form code 005?
| Code | When it fits |
|---|---|
| 005 | The discarded pharmaceutical is managed as hazardous waste. |
| 001 | It is a chemicals-only lab pack and the pharmaceutical hazardous-waste description doesn't fit. |
| 003 | It is a mixed lab pack and the pharmaceutical description doesn't fit. |
| 009 | It is a lab pack that fits none of forms 001 through 006, described in Comments. |
Under the pharmaceutical rules, hazardous status and potential creditability are separate decisions.
Which wastes take Texas form code 005?
| Waste | When it’s 005 |
|---|---|
| Hazardous waste pharmaceuticals | Pharmaceutical waste managed as hazardous waste under the healthcare pharmaceutical rules. |