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RCRA Hazardous Waste (US, 40 CFR 261)

What is the RCRA waste code for Soil & Stones?

Clean excavated soil and stone is not a federal hazardous waste under RCRA. They are inert materials recovered for fill, landscaping, or landfilled under state/local rules.

Also searched as: excavated soil, subsoil, spoil, muckaway

Have a soil-and-stones stream? See the dossier that replaces the feasibility study.

See the validation dossier

No federal hazardous waste code

Soil & Stones does not carry a federal RCRA hazardous waste code. It is regulated as solid waste under state and local rules, and specifics depend on your state environmental agency.

Not being federally hazardous does not mean it has no value — clean soil & stones is often a recovered commodity with active buyers.

Which Code Applies?

RCRA classifies waste by source, process, and characteristics — not just material. Pick the row that matches how your soil & stones arises; each coded row links to the full waste code definition under 40 CFR Part 261.

No code

Clean excavation soil

Inert material — not RCRA hazardous

No code

Contaminated soil (petroleum, hazardous substance)

The contaminant code governs

Source: 40 CFR Part 261 — Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste

Shipping to the EU?

See the EWC code for soil & stones.

View EWC code for soil & stones

Simulate your soil-and-stones stream

Soil & Stones

With a lab analysis, the engine checks the stream against each receiving route's published limits and returns what is supported, what is refused, and why. Without one yet, we tell you which routes it can evaluate and what analysis that needs.

What do you need?

An engineer replies within 1 business day. That reply confirms what is needed to run the dossier and when it can follow. A route the engine does not cover yet is reported as not yet evaluable, with the evidence that would change that.

See what the output looks like: a worked dossier.