Waste management is a complex business and we recognise this. To make life simpler for our customers we take care of the whole process, from making out a list of your waste to auditing any facility to which your waste is consigned.
On receipt of your initial enquiry we will either ask for a list of your waste, or, if none is available, will make arrangements to visit your site and make out an inventory. This is a service we provide free of charge.
We will then endeavour to provide a quotation with 48 hours
On acceptance of your order we will raise the necessary documentation to allow the movement of the waste, including a waste consignment note. We will also arrange with you for us to make the collection.
Astec staff will arrive to safely segregate, package and label your waste, make the collection and remove it for disposal. For each consignment we assign a hierarchy of disposal routes to your wastes, beginning with our first option, recycling, and ending with our last option, landfill.
On completion we will provide you with a certificate of disposal to show your waste has been safely disposed of.
We are able to accept a wide variety of wastes including the following:
Lab Chemicals
We can accept practically any material that you might use in your laboratory, in whatever size, from an ampoule up to a 25L drum
IBCs
Generally these containers have a 1000L capacity and again, we can accept most materials.
Pesticides
Pesticides arise in various situations, including farms, nurseries and golf clubs. We are able to collect both redundant/unlicensed materials and empty containers.
Drums
Typical sizes we handle are 25L and 205L. Typical materials are acids, alkalis, halogenated and non-halogenated solvents, although as with lab chemicals, we can accept most materials.
Clinical
Waste
We currently perform a number of regular collections of clinical waste arising from laboratories. Generally we collect in 30L or 60L WYVA type yellow bins.
WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment)
We can handle a wide range of WEEE, including IT equipment (PCs, monitors, keyboards, printers etc), printed circuit boards, fridges and freezers
Gas Cylinders
Traditionally, gas cylinders have proved to be a particularly difficult waste stream. This has been due to several factors:
the inherent difficulty in handling contents - they cannot be sent direct to incineration because of the explosion hazard
the various chemical hazards posed, some of which are corrosive and toxic
the condition of and type of fittings
the deterioration of the container such that neither the valve can be opened nor the label read
We regularly handle various gas cylinders, from the small 'Aldrich type' Sure/Pac and Kilo-Lab vessels, up to large 'Calor type' LPG cylinders
Batteries
Changes in landfill regulation have meant that there are now vast quantities of batteries in the UK that must be reprocessed. Historically it has always been viable to recover lead acid batteries because of the inherent value of the metal. With recent improvements in recycling facilities we are now able to offer a service for the collection and recycling of most cells, including:
Non-rechargeables such asZinc Carbon, Zinc Chloride, Alkaline Manganese, Lithium Manganese, Mercury, Lithium, Zinc Air and Silver Oxide
Rechargeables such as Lead Acid, Nickel Cadmium (NiCad), Nickel Metal Hydride (NimH), Nickel Zinc, Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer
Fluorescent tubes
Now classed as Hazardous Waste and assigned a unique entry in the European Waste Catalogue, fluorescent tubes illustrate one of the greatest changes in the waste industry since 2005. The ingredient making them hazardous is the small quantity of mercury vapour present inside the glass (this includes 'energy saving bulbs').
Aerosols
Aerosols come in many types, from those used in medicine inhalers to those containing calibration gases for laboratories. The basic difference between aerosols and gas cylinders is the inherently weaker containers, meaning that in general aerosols can be incinerated whereas gas cylinders can not. However, we also have outlets for the recovery of metal and contents if required.
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