The main objective of the management and transportation of special solid waste is to reduce the risk of producing contamination and protect health..

Among the alternatives considered, the most appropriate solution to the local technical and socioeconomic conditions must be chosen., without ceasing to analyze the pollution aspects.

Solid industrial waste is all solid waste resulting from some industrial process or operation., that are not going to be reused, recovered or recycled in the same industrial establishment. From a regulatory point of view, Included in this definition are those waste products that, even though they are liquid or gaseous, are stored and transported in containers.. In these cases, the character of solid waste is provided by the container or container that contains them., These can be generated from four main causes:

Final waste from the processes: They result from operations that do not fully use raw materials as scraps of gender., metallic highlights, or those operations where waste that is not usable in the process is generated. They also include waste from liquid or gaseous effluent treatment systems such as sedimentation sludge., ashes, filter dust.

Rejected products: They come from quality control processes, in which a product or raw material can be rejected when it is out of specification, such as fruits affected by pests., wet or dirty rinds in pulp mills, finished leather goods rejected by quality control.

Packaging: All packaging and containers of raw materials and supplies (solids, liquid or gaseous) discarded once they fulfilled their objective of transporting and distributing the products such as boxes, wrappers, buzzes.

End of product life: Typically the products(or its components) They have a certain shelf life or expiration date, past which they can no longer be used for what they were produced as expired medications, parts replaced in machinery maintenance, used oils.