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Somersville Scrap Metal Recycling & Disposal

We are the preferred hazardous waste recycling partner for all Somersville and Contra Costa County scrap metal recyclers mixed waste scrap metal and non-recyclable hazardous waste materials.

Somersville Mixed Waste Scrap Metal Recycling

Environmental Logistics, Inc. operates permitted California recycling facilities to receive scrap metal containing hazardous waste and waste considered by the California to contain have the potential to cause harm to substances that could pollute the environment or have harmful effects on humans, particularly children.

If you have mixed waste scrap metal, please call (855) 242-9628 to schedule a pickup or drop-off. 

FOR CALIFORNIA METAL SCRAPPERS -- Recent Notice From California DTSC

5-DAY PUBLIC NOTICE AND COMMENT PERIOD SCRAP METAL DEFINITION REVISION

Department of Toxic Substances Control Reference Number: R-2021-08E

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Department of Toxic Substances Control (“DTSC”) proposes to adopt emergency regulations to amend title 22, California Code of Regulations, division 4.5, sections 66260.10, 66261.6, and 66273.9. DTSC proposes to clarify the definition of scrap metal found in sections 66260.10 and 66273.9 by aligning it with the federal definition of scrap metal while also removing duplicative language in the current State definition of scrap metal. DTSC also proposes to amend section 66261.6 to clarify the conditions under which scrap metal may be exempted, as a “recyclable material,” from regulatory requirements of hazardous waste.

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Coordinates: 37°57′25″N 121°51′52″W / 37.95694°N 121.86444°W / 37.95694; -121.86444

Somersville (also, Sommerville and Summerville) is an unincorporated ghost town in eastern Contra Costa County, California. It is located 6 miles (10 km) north-northeast of Mount Diablo, at an elevation of 741 feet (226 m).

Somersville was founded in the 1850s by gold miners. It was named after Francis Somers who had discovered the Black Diamond Mine. Somersville was home to the Manhattan, Union, Eureka, Pittsburg and Independent mines. The town is no longer populated and is within the boundaries of the East Bay Regional Park District’s Black Diamond Mines Regional Park. Somersville Road was named after the town; it is a major north–south arterial trunk road in the closest existing neighbor: Antioch. Somersville’s ruins have a fairly extensive number of graves in the Rose Hill Cemetery, many of which contain dead miners who died in accidents in the coal mines. However the Rose Hill Cemetery was heavily vandalized till the East Bay Regional Park District took over in the 1970s. The Somersville mines are now sealed to prevent entry due to frequent incidents of people becoming lost inside them during the mid 20th century.

A post office operated at Somersville from 1863 to 1910. The name is in honor of Francis Somers, coal mine founder.

A reporter for the Antioch Ledger, May 7, 1870 described the town: “…Somersville has a four general merchandise stores, one drug store, one hotel, two large boarding houses, several minor ones, a doctor, barber, shoemaker, no tailor, four saloons, purs et simple, not counting liquors dispensed at groceries. As an offset, we have a flourishing Lodge of Good Templars and Sons of Temperance. Odd Fellows and Red Men each have an organization. A Protestant and a Catholic Church shed their humanizing influence around, both being well attended. The public school is maintained nearly all the year round, by a special tax when the State funds fails; from seventy-five to one hundred scholars is the average daily attendance. There are two departments, and two lady teachers, under whose painstaking auspices the fundamental branches flourish.”

In 1979, Somersville gained fame as the site of the largest historical archaeology excavation ever done in the U.S. at the time. Over 200 students from U.C Berkeley scraped and sifted through the eastern part of the townsite, recovering thousands of artifacts. The Public Broadcasting System examined the project in a documentary series on archaeology, Odyssey: Other People’s Garbage.

Somersville Wikipedia Page

Providing Mixed Waste Solutions to California Scrap Metal Recyclers

If you own a scrap metal recycling company in the state of California, you received yet another notice from the State of California DTSC (Department of Toxic Substances Control) office changing what you can and cannot recycle and the latest definition revision is a big one.  Environmental Logistics, Inc. is ready to help you and your customers.  If you run a California Scrap Metal Recycling CompanyEnvironmental Logistics, Inc. can provide you with a solution to your mixed scrap metal hazardous waste materials.

If you own a scrap metal recycling company in California and need a solution to the new scrap metal definitions, call (855) 242-9628 and ask for Jon Bennett. 

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Accepting California Waste Codes

Hazmat, Inc. accepts mixed-waste scrap metal with the following California Waste Codes.

INORGANICS
Code Definition
133 Aqueous solution with 10% or more total organic residues
134 Aqueous solution with
135 Unspecified aqueous solution
141 Off-specification, aged, or surplus inorganics
151 Asbestos-containing waste
162 Other spent catalyst
171 Metal sludge (see 121)
172 Metal dust (see 121) and machining waste
181 Other inorganic solid waste
ORGANICS
Code Definition
211 Halogenated solvents (chloroform, methyl chloride, perchloroethylene, etc.)
213 Hydrocarbon solvents (benzene, hexane, Stoddard, etc.)
214 Unspecified solvent mixture
221 Waste oil and mixed oil
222 Oil/water separation sludge
223 Unspecified oil-containing waste
231 Pesticide rinse water
232 Pesticides and other waste associated with pesticide production
241 Tank bottom waste
252 Other still bottom waste
261 Polychlorinated biphenyls and material containing PCBs
271 Organic monomer waste (includes unreacted resins)
272 Polymeric resin waste
281 Adhesives
291 Latex waste
311 Pharmaceutical waste
321 Sewage sludge
322 Biological waste other than sewage sludge
331 Off-specification, aged, or surplus organics
342 Organic liquids with metals (see 121)
343 Unspecified organic liquid mixture
352 Other organic solids
SLUDGE
Code Definition
411 Alum and gypsum sludge
421 Lime sludge
431 Phosphate sludge
441 Sulfur sludge
451 Degreasing sludge
461 Paint sludge
471 Paper sludge/pulp
491 Unspecified sludge waste
MISCELLANEOUS
Code Definition
511 Empty pesticide containers 30 gallons or more
512 Other empty containers 30 gallons or more
513 Empty containers less than 30 gallons
521 Drilling mud
531 Chemical toilet waste
541 Photo chemicals / photo processing waste
551 Laboratory waste chemicals
561 Detergent and soap
571 Fly ash, bottom ash, and retort ash
581 Gas scrubber waste
591 Baghouse waste
611 Contaminated soil from site clean-ups
612 Household waste
613 Auto shredder waste
614 Treated wood waste