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IWM offers a wide range of services, providing tailored and balanced solutions for your waste management requirements. There is a brief description on each of the disposal processes employed, examples of the types of waste typically routed through them, and Case Studies detailing disposal methods we have used in order to provide a complete solution to our customers.

Treatment Waste to Energy Incineration Secondary Liquid Fuel Blending Recovery Recycling Composting Landfill Managed Services

TREATMENT IWM provides a wide range of chemical, physical, thermal and biological treatment processes to suit all kinds of waste streams. Treatment methods are applied to remove or reduce the hazardous nature of wastes. Below are just a few examples: Acid/Alkali Neutralisation Typical Wastes include: Sulphuric Acid/Hydrochloric Acid/Nitric Acid/Phosphoric Acid/Hydrobromic Acid/Hydroxide/Carbonate/Silicate Salts and Solutions Precipitation/Filtration Typical Wastes include: Heavy metal contaminated effluent Consolidation Typical wastes include: Aqueous glycols/antifreeze solutions/aqueous solutions containing toxic heavy metals which cannot be precipitated Oxidation Typical wastes include: Cyanide salts and solutions/chrome (Vl) salts and solutions Bio-Treatment Typical wastes include: Aqueous solutions contaminated with hydrocarbons, phenols, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and other materials making them unsuitable for direct sewer discharge Click here to view a case study Plasma Arc Technology Typical waste include: Inorganic waste materials, such as fly ash and air pollution control residues/persistent toxic organics [Contact us] for more information, technical guidance, or a quotation request.

WASTE TO ENERGY We are able to harness energy from various waste streams possessing a calorific value, where the chemical energy of the waste is transformed into thermal energy, through its degradation or destruction. Pioneering Waste to Energy plants have been engineered and developed to capture this energy and convert it into electrical energy, which is supplied to the National Grid. This makes a valuable contribution to the reduction in use of fossil fuels for generating electricity. IWM offer this option to producers of suitable materials. Typical wastes include: A broad range of wastes are acceptable through this route. Please [Contact us] to see if your waste can be utilised.

INCINERATION Hazardous waste incinerators operate at temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius, ensuring complete destruction of your wastes. Gases from the waste combustion pass through a scrubber system to prevent the release of any harmful gaseous emissions to atmosphere, and residual ash is either landfilled or treated via consolidation prior to landfill. IWM offers the incineration disposal route for a vast range of waste-streams (usually materials with a high potential for a negative environmental impact), which are unable to be treated, recovered, recycled, landfiled or disposed of by any other available method currently available. Typical wastes include: Highly malodorous materials (e.g. Mercaptans, Thiols, etc.)/cytotoxic materials/harmfull pharmaceutical by-products/controlled drugs/organic waste streams/gas cylinders/commercially sensitive (confidential) wastes/low level radioactive waste/unrecoverable solvent streams [Contact us] for more information, technical guidance, or a quotation request.

SECONDARY LIQUID FUEL BLENDING IWM offers access to cement manufacturers, which are able to use waste solvent based materials to maintain the temperature of their kilns, reducing the need to use valuable resources in the manufacture of product fuel, and naturally saving themselves expense on purchasing product fuel, providing thermal oxidation of your wastes at a lower cost than conventional incineration and providing a beneficial (both environmentally and finantially) second use for your waste. The cement kilns are regulated, and restricted, to the kinds of solvent based wastes they are able to use through their process. Generally they need to be pumpable, non-halogenated solvent based materials with no other chemical contaminants. Typical wastes include: Solvent based paint thinners/pumpable solvent based paints/resins and adhesives/unrecoverable non-halogenated solvents IWM have the technical expertise necessary to ensure your wastes are routed via the most appropriate disposal processes. [Contact us] for more information, technical guidance, or a quotation request.

RECOVERY Following the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005, the Landfill Regulations, and with further waste [legislation]. changes imminent, there has been a great deal of pressure placed upon waste producers to seek alternative disposal options for their waste. Innovation Waste Management can do this for you, using the latest advanced technology to recover many waste streams which were previously routed for landfill or (more expensively) incineration. The environment benefits from recycling of wastes over destruction, freeing up natural resources when recovered materials can be used in their place. Waste producers will also realise the benefits of choosing to recover their waste through IWM, as it is cheaper to buy recovered material than product, and the waste can be recovered to produce a product meeting the customer’s specification. Typical wastes include: Solvents (chlorinated and non-chlorinated)/oil (emulsions are chemically cracked to separate the oil layer)/precious and high value metals Acids (e.g. Concentrated Sulphuric) Click here to view a case study [Contact us] for more information, technical guidance, or a quotation request.

RECYCLING IWM offers a number of facilities throughout the UK, capable of segregating and recycling materials such as plastics, paper, metals, glass, wood, etc., to help your company meet your targets on package recycling, under the Packaging Recycling Regulations requirements. Typical wastes include: Aerosols/batteries (Lead/Acid and NiCd)/paper/ card/plastics [Contact us] for more information, technical guidance, or a quotation request.

COMPOSTING Composting is a process with significant opportunity for treating and recycling suitable industrial and organic liquid wastestreams, in combination with ‘green’ waste from gardens and other producers. IWM selects this route, only after detailed investigation resulting in a full understanding of the waststream. IWM routes suitable wastes throught the composting process, where dry and liquid materials are mixed and turned regularly, in windrows, at elevated temperatures, killing the pathogens and biodegrading the organic components to produce an odour-free, fibrous soil conditioning compost. Typical wastes include: Fat traps/waste from food industries such as brewing, bakeries, dairies/latex & water mixtures/drum washings/soaps & detergents [Contact us] for more information, technical guidance, or a quotation request.

LANDFILL Following the implementation of the Landfill Directive, it has become an offence to landfill hazardous waste without pre-treatment, and only then at one of the limited number of suitable landfills. The process of determining primary and secondary characterisation is a technically complicated one and Innovation Waste Management has the technical capabilities necessary to perform this process and classify your waste as either hazardous or non-hazardous (based on the chemical composition of the waste), and to route the waste accordingly. As the government increases Landfill Tax rates annually, and imposes more and more constraints on the materials acceptable for landfill as they come under pressure from European recycling targets, IWM are continually investigating new, innovative alternatives to process these waste streams. [Contact us] for more information, technical guidance, or a quotation request.

MANAGED SERVICES Solving the Waste Management Puzzle Innovation Waste Management’s skilled technical team are aware that, to the average waste producer, the waste disposal process, including: - technical assessment of waste, - selection of the optimum route for the waste, - completion of documentation, and - correct labelling of the containers, must all appear fairly daunting. That is why here, at IWM, we maintain a pro-active approach to keeping ahead of legislative changes (and keeping our customers informed, too), and provide the full service you require to give peace of mind that you’re waste will be handled and disposed of responsibly. All legal documentation (consignment notes, Dangerous Goods notes, UN approved labels, etc) is supplied by ourselves (if required) and we will organise transport and bookings into our treatment and disposal facilities on your behalf. This is all done through IWM’s Customer Services, one central point of contact which will provide you with all the information, guidance and assistance you need. Site Surveys IWM are available to conduct a waste assessment of your site. One of our chemists will attend your site and carry out a site survey, sampling, testing and listing all of the waste on your site, assessing whether the waste containers are suitable for road transport, and passing this information onto Customer Services. A quotation will then be sent out for your consideration. Laboratory Chemical Packing Service Do you need to dispose of redundant laboratory chemicals? If so, we can provide a full service, from listing and segregating the chemicals into compatible UN classes, providing the packing materials and packaging for transportation, supplying UN labels and documentation, and preparing the load for onward transfer to our disposal facility. Duty of Care Audits Many customers who use IWM prefer to conduct audits on the disposal sites prior to sending their waste. This reinforces their peace of mind that our facilities are able to monitor and treat their wastes in a safe, environmentally responsible manner, and in accordance with the site licences. IWM can provide copies of all site licences for the treatment and disposal facilities that you wish to use. If you would like to learn more about what Innovation Waste Management can do for you, please [Contact us] at our Customer Services department.

Innovation Waste Management Limited is registered in England and Wales, with the registered office at Unit 106, Woodside Business Park, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 1EP, company registration number 5584573 and Vat No. 874 2020 41