What is a Waste Analysis Plan?

A business requires an RCRA permit if it generates, treats, or stores hazardous materials or is involved with hazardous waste removal. Applying for this permit requires you to create a Waste Analysis Plan (WAP). A Waste Analysis Plan is essentially a step-by-step guide for treating, storing, and disposing hazardous wastes including corrosives, flammables, explosives, gasses, poisons, etc. In developing the guide, you need to outline by what methods you determined the materials to be hazardous, how you defined its specific nature and how you determined that the hazardous material must be handled.

Whoever designs your Waste Analysis Plan must be trained in RCRA regulatory requirements and highly knowledgeable about waste characterization and hazardous waste disposal.