It was the wrong half of the operation
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The regulated half
Anything being offered for transport as a hazardous material. Specification packaging, marked, documented, with its tested closure.
The unregulated half
Absorbent, spill stock, decanted working quantities, general stores, samples and retains. Ordinary containers, bought on material and capacity.
And the failure is crossing between them
A general container used for a shipment, which is the dangerous direction, or specification packaging bought at specification prices for a stores cupboard, which is only expensive.
Decanting is where the line gets blurred
A working quantity drawn from a drum is not being shipped, so it is the unregulated half. The shop consumables property covers the container size limits by material that do apply.
Waste is where it gets blurred again
Collected in a laboratory, shipped later. Where it becomes a regulated shipment depends on rules this property does not address.
Absorbent has a quantity requirement elsewhere
The diagnostics property quotes the rule that absorbent be sufficient to absorb the entire contents of the primary receptacles. It is a calculation rather than a gesture.
An overpack is not a container
It is the outer enclosure that consolidates packages, and nothing on this shelf is one. Buying a pail and calling it an overpack is a category error.
The shelf is small because the honest offering is small
76 containers, which is the smallest in this library. A general catalog should be small in a specialist regulated category.
And the data gap is the real limit
Not the shelf size. Until the catalog records UN marks, two of these four leaves cannot be served from it however many containers arrive.
And the gap cannot be closed by inference
A container that is the right material at the right capacity still tells you nothing about a mark, because the mark follows from a test programme and not from the specification a catalog publishes.
So the two halves need two suppliers
Which is an ordinary arrangement in a regulated operation and not a failure of either supplier. The specification packaging comes with paperwork; the stores come with a resin chart.
Which is a fixable thing and not fixed yet
A field, populated from manufacturer documentation. Stated here so the position is known rather than inferred.