What we do (and don't do) at manufacturing facilities
Ordinary cleanout work alongside specialty hazmat handling.
Manufacturing waste streams come in regulated and ordinary. Regulated covers chemical waste, contaminated process materials, RCRA-listed wastes, hazmat-classified materials, contaminated metals, and anything else that requires manifesting under EPA rules and disposal at hazmat-licensed facilities. We don't operate in those lanes. The specialty hazmat partners we coordinate with do.
Our scope is the ordinary cleanout work that runs alongside hazmat handling. Production-floor furniture being decommissioned, packaging waste from material deliveries, non-hazardous shop floor debris, breakroom and locker room contents, IT and office equipment with R2-certified routing, scrap metal cleared by EHS for disposal, and miscellaneous facility contents that aren't classified as regulated waste. The clearance documentation matters: we don't accept work in spaces that haven't been EHS-cleared.
For full plant decommissioning, the sequencing usually goes hazmat first (chemical, contaminated process materials, regulated streams), then specialty equipment liquidators or scrap metal contractors handle production line equipment with recoverable value, then we follow with the office and administrative areas, breakroom and locker contents, miscellaneous packaging, non-hazardous shop floor debris, and IT decommissioning.
EHS coordination, line-down windows, scrap recovery
Working around the line, not against it.
Active production facilities don't shut down for cleanout work. EHS clearance, contractor orientation, lockout-tagout status for nearby equipment, and OSHA compliance documentation all happen before our crews arrive on-site. For active production areas, work happens during line-down windows: scheduled maintenance shutdowns, weekend windows, overnight after end-of-shift. EHS pre-clearance documentation is in hand before any equipment moves.
Scrap metal recovery is part of standard scope for non-hazardous shop floor scrap. Steel, aluminum, copper, and other scrap metal cleared by EHS routes to scrap metal recyclers with weight tickets and tonnage documentation. For higher-value scrap (copper from decommissioned electrical, aluminum from production equipment), we coordinate with the customer on whether the scrap value should offset disposal costs or route through the customer's existing scrap vendor. Contaminated metals route to hazmat partners instead.
For warehouse and distribution center work, the model shifts. DC packaging waste runs in steady-state volume that fits recurring service. Damaged inventory disposal happens during peak season. End-of-lease DC consolidations get project pricing under MSA terms with the broader portfolio's scope.
