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EPA to Hold Meetings to Discuss Improving e-Manifest Adoption for Hazardous Waste

The Environmental Protection Agency will hold public meetings, Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, to discuss how to increase adoption of its electronic manifest system for hazardous waste shipments, it said. Since the system's launch in 2018, EPA has received only…

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about 18,000 e-Manifest filings out of a total of 6 million manifests, representing “less than a half of a percent of manifests received by EPA,” the agency said. EPA originally hoped the system could save states and industry “more than $50 million annually, once electronic manifests are widely adopted.” Registration is available on EPA’s e-Manifest web page.