--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | HWCL description: HWCL | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [California Adopts Universal Wastes Rules For Photovoltaics](https://blog.stpub.com/california-adopts-universal-wastes-rules-for-photovoltaics) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Mon, Nov 23, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/photovoltaic-system-2742302_1920.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/california-adopts-universal-wastes-rules-for-photovoltaics) California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) established waste management rules for solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, to become effective on January 1, 2021. These rules are adopted under the state Hazardous Waste Control Law (HWCL), applying “universal waste” authority permissible under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) RCRA regulations. EPA defines five universal waste categories, and also allows states to define additional categories (I wrote about this [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/do-you-generate-universal-wastes)). The remainder of today’s blog summarizes these universal waste PV requirements (which include dozens of revisions to proposed state rules I discussed [HERE).](https://blog.stpub.com/california-proposes-universal-wastes-rules-for-photovoltaics) [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/california-adopts-universal-wastes-rules-for-photovoltaics) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/california-adopts-universal-wastes-rules-for-photovoltaics#comments-listing) Tags: [EPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa), [RCRA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/rcra), [Environment](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environment), [HWCL](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/hwcl), [Photovoltaics](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/photovoltaics), [DTSC](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/dtsc), [PV Wastes](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/pv-wastes) [All posts](https://blog.stpub.com/all) ### Follow Me ### Subscribe by Email ### Browse by Topic Area - [Accounting & Tax ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/accounting-tax) - [Business & Legal ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Corporate Governance  ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Corporate+Governance) - [Environmental ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Environmental) - [Global ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Global) - [Health & Safety ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [Internet ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Internet) - [Transportation ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Transportation) ### Browse by Tag - [Environmental (344)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental) - [Business & Legal (309)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Environmental risks (300)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-risks) - [Health & Safety (296)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [EPA (283)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa) - [Terms & Conditions](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-Terms-of-Use-Dec-20.pdf) - [Privacy Policy](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/STP-Privacy-Policy.pdf) - [License Agreement](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-License-Agreement-Dec-20.pdf) - [Sitemap](http://stpub.com/sitemap) - [Support](http://stpub.com/support) © 2021 STP ComplianceEHS - All rights reserved