The implementation of Hazardous Waste Regulations and the Landfill Directive has brought about some of the biggest changes in management and hazardous waste disposal in the last 30 years.
Many new wastes are now classed as hazardous waste, and the adoption of more stringent Waste Acceptance Criteria testing has restricted the number of sites able to process certain types of chemical, toxic, hazardous or non hazardous waste.
Envirogreen works through the complex regulations for you, coming up with the most suitable, cost-effective and compliant hazardous waste and chemical waste disposal solutions.
Our extensive knowledge gives you peace of mind, as wel ensure all documentation and licensing is in place.
We operate nationwide from our base in Slough, finding the most appropriate hazardous waste disposal solutions local to you from the list below.
Delivering waste to hazardous landfill is still a viable option for larger quantities and bulk wastes, for example for contaminated soils, as well as for regular homogeneous wastes such as contaminated packaging.
This is now often impractical and uneconomic (as well as a strain in the environment) due to changes in Waste Acceptance Criteria and reductions in capacity.
All waste must be subject to laboratory analysis before acceptance which adds cost pre-disposal.
A number of incinerators around the country offer different capabilities. We will choose the most appropriate option for your particular waste.
Some can burn non-hazardous waste and clinical waste with energy recovery (some recycling), butmost hazardous waste, including all pesticides, requires specialist high-temperature waste incinerators for final destruction. This is regarded as the safest and most effective way of dealing with combustible organic wastes, which are unsuitable for landfill because of their toxicity, flammability or resistance to natural breakdown.
Most chemical waste is consigned to a treatment and processing plant before going to its final disposal site. These facilities will appropriately process wastes, for example by neutralising acid and basic wastes, denaturing aqueous solutions, and shredding and reducing the volume of packaging. Low flash point wastes may be recovered for reuse in chem-fuels.