Waste and assets agency Veolia is launching a brand new specialist facility based mostly in Avonmouth, close to Bristol, to satisfy the rising demand for the secure and compliant administration of hazardous and sophisticated waste streams within the South West.
Designed to have the ability to settle for a variety of hazardous wastes, it’s anticipated to be operational in spring 2024. With a capability of 6,500 tonnes per 12 months, the ability provides to the corporate’s seven current hazardous waste switch stations dealing with over 76,000 tonnes per 12 months, and can present a full vary of providers together with a cellular chemist service to make sure wastes are safely segregated and compliantly packed and labeled prepared for transportation.
Particularly designed to just accept and retailer a variety of packaged palletised waste together with kegs, drums, IBC’s, the ability will handle wastes equivalent to aerosols and gasoline cylinders, non hazardous supplies, and supplies categorised as flammable, poisonous, corrosive, and oxidising. By appearing as an area hub it can allow price efficient entry to Veolia’s full vary of recycling, therapy and disposal amenities.
The Avonmouth facility will serve a variety of consumers producing packaged oily wastes from car upkeep and engineering websites, laboratory wastes from analysis and growth amenities, manufacturing wastes from all forms of manufacturing operations, and supplies from family waste recycling centres. The location will embrace a brand new laboratory and specifically designed waste storage areas used to segregate every merchandise based mostly on its potential hazards, bodily and chemical properties. These amenities will guarantee appropriate identification, storage and motion of waste to essentially the most acceptable recycling, therapy and disposal places.
The switch website shall be supported by Veolia’s cellular chemist service, Chempac, for segregation, labelling, packing, assortment and therapy and disposal of hazardous and laboratory chemical wastes, to make sure compliance and security for patrons. Waste streams shall be tracked by Veolia’s end-to-end cloud based mostly system that can guarantee compliance and traceability by the entire cycle from enquiry to therapy or disposal, and is designed to cowl greater than 100,000 completely different waste profiles.
Nicola Henshaw, Director Hazardous Waste at Veolia UK stated: “To ensure we protect people and the environment, complex and hazardous waste streams need to have strictly controlled collection and treatment solutions, and our new facility will deliver extended depollution capabilities to the South West region. By using the latest cost-effective solutions, gained from our expert teams, we will be able to offer an advanced and compliant local service that will meet the growing need in the area.”
Veolia says it presently treats and recycles round 6 million tonnes of hazardous waste for greater than 100,000 industrial, business or public authority purchasers, and employs 8,000 individuals who function a complete community of greater than 300 amenities on 5 continents.
