Hazardous Waste Management The Smart Waste Way
Stephens Smart Waste offer a total hazardous waste management solution for all hazardous waste streams to meet your business needs.
Our aim at Stephens Smart Waste is to provide you with a cost-effective solution that ensures that your business is fully compliant with all relevant hazardous waste legislation.
Our professional waste management expertise and specialist network of hazardous waste management facilities allow us to collect, sort, bulk, transfer, process and dispose of a large range of hazardous waste materials.
What is hazardous waste?
You may not be aware that every business regardless of size produces some hazardous waste in the workplace. Hazardous waste is often defined as any business waste that can be harmful to wildlife, human health, the environment or all of the above. Waste is considered as hazardous when it contains certain substances or has certain properties that make it corrosive, caustic, carcinogenic, harmful, ecotoxic, flammable, infectious, irritant, toxic, mutagenic or is used as an oxidising agent.Here are some examples deemed as hazardous waste:
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Toners
- Thinners
- Solvents
- Sodium Bulbs
- Resins
- Photo Chemicals
- Paints
- Oil Filters
- Inks
- Gas Cylinders
- Fridges & Freezers
- Fluorescent Light Tubes
- Contaminated rags wipes and absorbents
- Cleaning Chemicals
- Caustic Soda
- Batteries
- Aerosols
- Adhesives
- Acid Descalers
Why do I need hazardous waste management?
Many products found in your workplace are classed as hazardous waste, meaning that you may no longer dispose of them with your general residual waste collection.
Hazardous waste needs special treatment because of its potential to harm people, wildlife and the environment. The management of hazardous waste in a business, including its collection, disposal and recycling, is subject to some stringent and rigorous regulations – namely under the legislation of Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005.
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What does hazardous waste management mean to me?
In practice, hazardous waste management involves the management, collection, treatment and disposal of your business hazardous waste. This is a job for professional expert operators such as ourselves at Stephens Smart Waste. In other words the smart people with the right experience, expertise and resources to manage your business hazardous waste.
How can Stephens Smart Waste help your business?
Our total waste management services ensure that your business is fully compliant with all relevant and applicable business hazardous waste disposal regulations. The technical team at Stephens Smart Waste is staffed by fully qualified chemists, who are experienced and knowledgeable in the management, classification, handling and disposal of hazardous waste. Here at Stephens Waste management we keep up-to-date with the latest British and European waste management legislation. With this knowledge, we can provide professional advice on your business legal requirements for the disposal of all hazardous waste types. This ensures legal compliance for the management, collection, treatment and disposal of your company hazardous waste, but also complies with your responsibility to the environment.
Stephens Smart Waste also operates a fleet of dedicated specialist hazardous waste collection vehicles with Carriage of Dangerous Goods Certified drivers, in addition to our innovative state-of-the-art, waste industry leading treatment and waste disposal facilities.
Speak to a member of the Stephens Smart Waste team and ask any questions you may have about your business hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal as part of our total waste management service.
