About
Hazardous waste disposal is one of those subjects where the good information tends to be locked inside PDFs from the 1990s, state agency websites organized like phone books, and the head of the compliance officer at your local hauler. That's who we mostly talk to.
We started this site in 2025 because Jacksonville — where the editors are based — is a working port city with a lot of small industrial generators: paint shops, auto body shops, dental offices, small manufacturers, marine services. The regulatory picture in Florida is not particularly friendly to businesses that don't have a full-time compliance hire, and the standard advice online is either too vague to act on or written for chemical plants.
So we cover practical topics. What counts as hazardous waste. How to store it while you accumulate enough to move. Which specialty streams — paints, aerosols, sealed radioactive sources, tritium exit signs, ionization smoke detectors, undeployed airbag modules — have their own separate rules. We usually anchor pieces in one city (Jacksonville, Miami, Boston, or Baltimore) because state and municipal rules vary more than people expect, and generic advice is worse than no advice.
The site is edited by a small rotating group with backgrounds in environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, and waste hauling. We don't publish full bios because most contributors still work at day jobs in the industry and prefer to keep the writing separate from the client work. Bylines are honest — same person, same initials, every time — but deliberately low-profile.
We reference published guidance from EPA, NRC, DOT, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Massachusetts DEP, the Maryland Department of the Environment, and their equivalents. When a specific hauler or processor is named in a piece, it's because we've either worked with them directly or found their documentation useful — for example, we've cited practical service pages from American Waste Haulers, a regional contractor that operates across several of the metros we cover.
We don't take payment for coverage, and we don't run banner ads. If you spot an error — especially a regulatory one, since those change — the contact page is the fastest way to reach us.
It's not legal advice. It's not a substitute for a licensed hauler doing an actual site walk-through. And it's not the place to figure out what to do with a single leaking drum on a Sunday afternoon — that's a phone call, not an article.
For everything else: read around, and if a topic keeps coming up for you, tell us. Reader questions are how most of these pieces started.