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Stericycle’s EPA Knowledge Center
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Last updated May 20, 2025
EPA Knowledge Center: External Resources
EPA Final Rule: Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals and Amendment to the P075 Listing for Nicotine
EPA Final Rule: Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements
EPA Guidance Documents
- FAQ - Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals and Amendment to the P075 Listing for Nicotine Final Rule
- Managing Pharmaceutical Waste: A 10-Step Blueprint for Healthcare Facilities in the United States; revised August 2008
- Pretreatment Program Factsheet on Hazardous Waste Reporting Requirements for Industrial Users under 40 CFR 403.12(p)&(j)
EPA Guidance Memos and Letters
- Applicability of 40 CFR Part 266 Subpart P to Intermediate Care Facilities (PDF)
- Chloral hydrate can be U034 (PDF)
- Containers that Once Held P-listed Pharmaceutical Waste (PDF)
- Cyclophosphamide monohydrate can be U058 (PDF)
- EPA's regulations on reverse distribution and policy on reverse logistics
- Manifesting Non-Creditable Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals - New Four Character Code (PDF)
- Medicinal nitroglycerine that does not exhibit the reactivity characteristic (D003) is not P081 (PDF) (2 pp, 19 K)
- Nicotine as the sole active ingredient of E-liquids (PDF) (4 pp, 698 K)
- Nicotine-containing products that are legitimately recycled are not solid waste (PDF)(3 pp, 586 K)
- Scope of Hazardous Waste Listing P042 (Epinephrine) (PDF) (8 pp, 1.2 MB)
- Scope of Hazardous Waste Listing P046 (Phentermine) (PDF)
Stericycle Experts in the News
- Waste 360: Navigating EPA’s Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rulemaking (Part One)
- Waste 360: Navigating EPA’s Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rulemaking (Part Two)
- Healthcare Purchasing News: Preparing for EPA’s final rule on hazardous waste pharmaceutical management
- EHS Today: New EPA Regulation Affects Healthcare Industry
- McNight’s Long-Term Care News: How new hazardous waste pharmaceuticals rule will impact LTC
- Environment + Energy Leader: What to Know about New Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals
