Section 30.213 - Class B Regulated Recyclable MaterialsClass B regulated recyclable materials are those regulated recyclable materials which have been determined by the Department to require some specific management practices in order to be recycled or otherwise managed without constituting a significant potential hazard to the public health, safety, or welfare, or the environment. The following are Class B regulated recyclable materials:
(1) Class B(1) - regulated recyclable materials that are not intended to be, and are not, used for the production of heat or power by burning, and that are intended to be, or that are, used in a manner constituting disposal. See310 CMR 30.010: Definitions.(2) Class B(2) - hazardous waste fuels that are intended to be, and that are, used for the production of heat or power by burning.(3) Class B(3) - used oil fuels that are intended to be, and that are, used for the production of heat or power by burning.(4) Class B(4) - spent materials and hazardous wastes that are listed in 310 CMR 30.131 or 310 CMR 30.132 or that are characteristic for D011 pursuant to 310 CMR 30.125(2): Table 1, and that have an economically recoverable quantity of precious metals, except that a silver recovery cartridge that has been utilized for wastewater treatment destined for reclamation of its silver content, can be managed as a Class A regulated recyclable material. See310 CMR 30.212(5) - sludge having the characteristics of a hazardous waste when being reclaimed. In order to be managed as a Class A regulated recyclable material, silver recovery cartridges sent for reclamation shall be shipped directly to a reclaimer or to a hazardous waste facility with authority in its license to accept, for consolidation and shipment to a reclaimer, silver recovery cartridges destined for reclamation. For purposes of implementing 310 CMR 30.000, quantities of precious metals are "economically recoverable" only if the person generating the material containing the precious metals can obtain greater economic benefit by recovering the precious metals than by causing the material to be handled in any other way.(5) Class B(5) - spent lead-acid batteries that are intended to be, and that are, reclaimed for recovery of lead.Amended by Mass Register Issue 1404, eff. 11/15/2019.