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Hazardous-waste compliance software

Know the rule behind every drum.

Pack Matrix turns your chemical inventory into compatible lab packs and cited RCRA/DOT determinations in minutes — built by a hazmat pro with over 12 years of hazardous-waste experience, not a black box.

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Every determination cited to the CFR Built to current federal requirements
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Pack Matrix Lite

$20/month

Cited lab-pack determinations. One tech, one active inventory, and the same determination engine as every Pack Matrix tier.

  • The same determination engine as every Pack Matrix tier
  • Cited RCRA and DOT determinations, with the rule behind each
  • One active inventory, saved on your device and resumed
  • Printable packing list and per-drum packing sheets
  • Single user · no manifest · no saved profile library
What it pays back

Money you're losing right now.

Compliance protects you from a future fine. These are dollars leaving your account today — and they add up faster than most sites realize.

$200K+
Off-spec fees

Charges you can substantiate — because you can export a cited, dated worksheet of what you packed.

Billed vs. actual
Weight reconciliation

Reconcile invoiced weights against actual disposal weights, and recover any difference.

Hours
EHS labor

Stop burning your compliance team on disputes, invoice archaeology and manual paperwork.

$70k/day
Violations avoided

The federal maximum, per violation, per day. Cited records are what you show when an inspector asks why a drum was packed the way it was.

Send us a year of your disposal invoices and we'll show you what you're paying in off-spec and overbilling — in one conversation. Get an invoice review →

The stakes

One missed determination can cost you.

Hazardous-waste compliance isn't paperwork — it's exposure. The penalties are real, and they add up fast.

$70k+

Per-day RCRA penalties

Violations are assessed per day, per violation. A single lapse compounds quickly.

Failed

Surprise inspections

EPA and state inspectors don't call ahead. If the binder isn't ready, you're exposed.

Billed vs. actual

Weight reconciliation

Invoiced weights and actual disposal weights don't always match — reconcile them and recover the difference.

Manual

Spreadsheet chaos

Determinations, codes and dates scattered across files no inspector will accept.

Off-specification waste

When the drum doesn't match the paperwork.

Off-spec waste — contents that don't match the profile — is expensive for you, and genuinely dangerous for the people who open it downstream.

$200K+
in off-spec fees found on a single site's invoices in one year. Off-spec charges can rival RCRA penalties — and unlike a fine, they arrive quietly, one invoice at a time.
💸 What it costs you
  • Composition limits tighter than the waste can consistently meet — so loads arrive off-spec and carry a surcharge
  • A rejected load — and returning it is its own manifested shipment
  • Re-profiling, re-sampling and lab re-analysis fees
  • Re-handling and repackaging labor, plus demurrage while a truck waits
  • A pricier treatment path than you budgeted (profiled fuel-blend, actually incineration-only)
  • A manifest discrepancy the facility must log and reconcile (40 CFR 264.72)
  • A returned load can blow your 90/180-day accumulation clock
  • Hours from people on both sides pulled off their real duties to work out a resolution — time nobody budgets and nobody bills
  • Those hours come out of compliance work — so disputes quietly raise your violation risk too
  • Repeat offenses raise your rates — or lose you the vendor
⚠️ What it costs the people downstream
  • TSDF workers open, sample and bulk that drum based on your profile
  • A wrong profile means the wrong PPE for what's actually inside
  • An undeclared constituent bulked into an incompatible tank — heat, gas, fire
  • Pressure, splash or off-gassing on opening that nobody prepared for
  • The person taking the sample is the first to meet the surprise

A surcharge is the cheapest version of a wrong profile.
The most expensive is someone at the other end calling 911 for a coworker.

By the time it's called off-spec, you no longer have the waste. You can't sample it, re-test it, or inspect it once it's been bulked downstream. Your leverage is what you documented before it left your dock. Without that record, reviewing a charge can cost more time than the charge itself — so most sites simply absorb it. Pack Matrix gives you that documentation up front.

An off-spec charge works best as a two-way conversation. The manifest discrepancy procedure at 40 CFR 264.72 is built for exactly this: notify the generator, document the deviation with analysis, and reconcile it on the manifest. You're entitled to see the data behind a charge and to review it — the only thing missing is usually your own record to compare it against.

How Pack Matrix prevents it: determinations built from real measured properties and cited to the rule, a composition that must total 95–100% (so nothing goes unlisted), and profiles generated from that same verified data — so what's on the paperwork is what's in the drum. You can export a dated, cited worksheet of exactly what you determined and packed, made before the drum ever moved. You can't re-test a shipment you no longer have — but you can compare your own record against the charge, and catch a spec your waste can't consistently meet before you sign the profile.

How it works

From chemical list to compliant plan — in minutes.

No consultants. No AI black box. Just the federal rules and regulations — applied and cited to the source. Enter what you have; Pack Matrix does the determination and builds the packs.

1

Enter your inventory

Type a chemical or product name — or build a mixture, component by component. The library fills in the rest.

2

Get compatible, cited packs

The engine determines class, codes and DOT profile, then groups compatible waste into safe lab packs — every call cited to the CFR.

3

Stay inspection-ready

Print per-drum packing lists, track generator status and the accumulation clock, and keep your record audit-ready.

What you get

Built to keep you safe and compliant.

Inspection Ready

See the gaps before the inspector does.

A live readiness score assembles your whole compliance record and flags what needs attention — past-date containers, an overdue exception report, a missing determination — so nothing gets found for you.

86%
  • Waste determinations on file
  • 3 containers past accumulation date
  • Manifest MAN-0361 — exception report due
Safety first, always

Compatible lab packs you can trust.

Worker safety is the hard rule: acids away from bases, oxidizers from flammables, cyanides from acids. Under any uncertainty, Pack Matrix segregates and flags for review — it never packs on a guess.

Rule 1 — one class per drum49 CFR 173.12(b)(2)(ii)
Rule 2 — reactivity backstopsegregate
Gross weight cap≤ 452 lb
Absorbent packing mediumrequired
No black box

Every determination, cited to the rule.

D002 from a measured pH? That's 40 CFR 261.22. Nitric acid over 40% packed alone? 49 CFR 173.158(a). You can show an inspector exactly why — because the software shows you.

pH ≤ 2 → D002 (corrosive)261.22
Flash < 60°C → D001 (ignitable)261.21
Reportable quantity (RQ)302.4
DOT class / UN# / PG172.101
Tracking & cost recovery

Know your status. Recover your money.

Watch generation trend toward the SQG/LQG thresholds before you cross one, count down every drum's accumulation clock, and reconcile what you were billed against actual disposal weights.

This month1,408 lb · SQG
Headroom to LQG792 lb
Containers on the clock9 open · 1 overdue
Recovered YTD$4,200
Your data, your control

Local-first. Your records stay yours.

Your inventory lives on your own device by default — you decide if and when it moves to the cloud. More control, more privacy, no lock-in. Your compliance data belongs to you, not to us.

Stored onyour device
Your inventorystays on your device
Data ownership100% yours
Vendor lock-innone
No black box

Determinations run in your browser.

No lookups, no round trips, no waiting on a server to tell you what your waste is. The regulatory data is compiled into Pack Matrix at build time, so every determination is computed on your own machine from rules you can read — and cited to the section it came from.

Determinationin your browser
Server round tripsnone
Every rulecited
Your inventoryon your device
Authoritative data

The whole DOT Hazardous Materials Table — cited.

Look up any of 3,000+ proper shipping names straight from 49 CFR 172.101: hazard class, UN/NA number, packing group, labels and special provisions — the same federal table the shipping world runs on, built right into every determination.

Proper shipping names3,000+
Source49 CFR 172.101
Class · UN# · PG · labelsall cited
Guessingnever
Built for scale

Manage every site from one account.

Run waste for a book of customers? Set up all your generator sites in one place — each with its own EPA ID, inventory, manifests and records — and switch between them in a click. Brokers and site-management companies ship under the generator's name or their own. One account, every site.

Generator sitesmany, one account
Per-site recordsseparate & clean
Ship asgenerator or broker
Switch sitesone click
Paperwork, done

The Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest, filled for you.

Pack Matrix populates the official EPA Form 8700-22 straight from your plan — proper shipping descriptions, waste codes, quantities and management-method codes, in the right boxes. Preview it, download the record copy, or transcribe it into e-Manifest.

FormEPA 8700-22
Items 9b · 13 · 19auto-filled
Outputpreview + PDF
Ready fore-Manifest
Pricing

Cited determinations, at every size.

The same determination engine at every tier. What changes is the breadth of the workflow around it.

Lite
One tech, one inventory
$20/moAvailable now
Starter
Built for VSQG operations
$149/moComing next
Pro
Built for SQG operations
$399/moComing soon
Business
Built for LQG operations
$799/moComing soon

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