Hazardous & Non-Hazardous Waste Disposal

What this service covers

We classify, document and arrange the disposal or recovery of both hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams, from a single pallet of part-used chemicals to a full production site's ongoing output. The classification is the part that matters most: it decides which carriers may move the waste, which facilities may receive it, what paperwork must accompany it, and what it costs.

Typical streams include solvents, acids and alkalis, oils and oily water, paints, coatings and adhesives, contaminated packaging and absorbents, laboratory chemicals, aerosols, batteries, and the general and mixed non-hazardous waste that surrounds them.

Who it is for

Manufacturers, engineering and coating businesses, laboratories, garages and workshops, and any site that has accumulated part-used containers over years of operation without a consistent route for disposing of them.

It is also for anyone who has been told their waste is hazardous and is not sure it is. Waste that has been described conservatively for years is often cheaper to move than the invoice suggests, and getting it re-assessed frequently pays for itself.

How a project runs

The free site survey is an inventory: what is there, how much of it, in what condition, and how it is currently stored. Where a stream cannot be identified from labelling or from the safety data sheet, we arrange sampling and analysis rather than guessing — a guess in either direction is expensive.

You then receive a written report with each stream identified, the EWC code we propose to apply, the reasoning where it is not self-evident, the disposal or recovery route, and the cost. We appoint the licensed contractors, agree a collection plan that works around your operation, and manage the movements.

Compliance and documentation

Hazardous waste is consigned under a hazardous waste consignment note; other streams travel under a waste transfer note. Both come back to you, together with the carrier's registration number, the receiving facility's permit or exemption reference, and confirmation of what was finally done with the material.

We do not transport waste ourselves. We are a registered waste broker and dealer, which means we arrange disposal through carriers and facilities we have checked, and we stand behind that selection. Your duty of care under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 stays with you as the producer, and our job is to make it evidenced rather than assumed.

Storage, segregation and the things inspections find

Most enforcement action on hazardous waste starts with storage rather than with disposal. Incompatible materials stored together, containers without legible labels, drums standing outside a bund, a quarantine area that has quietly become a permanent one: each is visible from the yard gate and each is straightforward to correct once somebody has pointed it out.

Our survey covers that as well as the disposal route, because the two are connected. Waste that has been correctly segregated at the point of production is cheaper to move and easier to classify; waste that has been tipped into one skip has to be treated as the most hazardous thing in it. Getting the containers, the labelling and the layout right usually costs nothing and reduces the disposal bill on every subsequent collection.

Ongoing contracts and one-off clearances

We work both ways. Where a site produces the same streams week after week, we set up a scheduled arrangement with agreed rates, container types and collection frequencies, and review it annually against what the market is actually charging. Where the job is a one-off — a backlog, a discontinued product line, an inherited store — we price it as a project and you are under no obligation to continue afterwards.