Hazardous waste

Hazardous waste is any waste classified as hazardous by the European Waste Catalogue and the Hazardous Waste (England) Regulations 2005. Any organisation producing hazardous waste must segregate this waste from their general dry waste stream and dispose of it appropriately.

Common hazardous waste items include:

• Industrial – Fluorescent tubes and sodium lamps, spillages, aerosols, paint in original containers, original containers containing residues.
• Automotive – Lead acid batteries, contaminated spills and rags, oil and fuel filters, aerosols, antifreeze and brake fluids, fluorescent tubes and sodium lamps, tyres.
• Offices – Fluorescent tubes and sodium lamps, toner/laser cartridges, ink jet cartridges.
• General – Fluorescent tubes and sodium lamps, toner/laser cartridges, ink jet cartridges, lead acid batteries, contaminated rags, spillages, oil and fuel filters, aerosols, antifreeze and brake fluids.

SITA UK offers a number of hazardous waste services to help our customers to dispose of hazardous waste in line with these regulations, including services for small and larger volumes of hazardous wastes, as well as asbestos disposal.

Our asbestos disposal service offers businesses the safe disposal of asbestos in one of our asbestos ‘monocells’ which are located at our landfill facilities at Packington (between Birmingham and Coventry), Granville (near Telford) and Clifton Marsh (Lancashire).

Contact us for more information.