Soltec provides schools and higher education institutions with safe and sustainable waste disposal options
Soltec provides a comprehensive waste management service for laboratories in schools, colleges and universities. We provide a safe, secure and sustainable method of removing and managing your waste. If you have any obsolete, out-of-date or unwanted chemicals on your site, you can be assured that we can safely transport these to our facility for recycling.
Sustainable solutions
The Process
We understand that your school or institution will require a safe and secure method of waste management.
Our service provides you with a discreet and bespoke process of waste removal that minimises disruption to your school or institution.
Safety assessment and classification
The first step is to identify and classify the chemical waste that you have on site. Our Dangerous Goods Safety Advisers (DGSAs) will attend your premises. They will create a comprehensive list of the waste laboratory chemicals that you have on site. Alternatively, you may provide us with a list of chemicals or waste that you would like to have safely removed.
Our technical laboratory team will carry out an analysis to determine the safest method for containing and transporting the waste from your site to our state-of-the art treatment facility. In advance of transportation, we will segregate, label and package the waste to ensure full compliance with safety and ADR regulations.
We will provide you with a full audit trail for waste streams as well as all the necessary certification and forms you will need in order to comply with statutory and industry regulations. Find out more about our certifications of compliance and traceability.
Secure Removal
The service we provide ensures that chemical and hazardous waste can be secured on site and transferred to one of our two treatment facilities by our licenced transport vehicles.
The treatment process
Producing sustainable products
On completion of the treatment and recovery process, a range of new products can now enter the market.
Soltec’s mission is to provide economically viable and environmentally friendly solutions to our customers that allows them to dispose of their hazardous waste.
We achieve this through applying innovative techniques to generate new products out of this waste that can then re-enter the economy.
Chemical waste catalogue
- Flammable Liquids – Solvents – Class 3, including:
- Ethanol/acetone/methanol/acetonitrile/ethyl acetate
- Flammable Solids – Class 4.1, including:
- Sulphur
- Metal Powders
- Solvent contaminated solids
- Water Reactive / Spontaneously Combustible – Classes 4.2 and 4.3, incl.
- Calcium Carbide
- Potassium Metal
- Oxidising Chemicals – Class 5.1, including:
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Nitrates
- Potassium Permanganate
- Organic Peroxides – Class 5.2
- Toxic Chemicals – Class 6.1, including:
- Chloroform
- Phenols
- Acids and Bases/Alkalines – Hazard Class 8, including:
- Inorganic Acids – sulphuric/hydrochloric/phosphoric/nitric
- Organic Acids – acetic/formic
- Inorganic Bases – sodium/potassium hydroxide
- Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals – Class 9
- Chemicals not regulated for transport
Certifications of compliance & traceability
We provide our customers with a full and comprehensive record of the waste acceptance and recovery process. Our Dangerous Goods and Safety Advisors (DGSAs) will advise you on all regulatory requirements. Our Soltec Waste Tracker (SWT) system allows you to monitor, in real time, the movement and treatment of each shipment from your site. We will provide you with all the necessary certification and forms you will need in order to comply with statutory and industry regulations, including:
- Waste Transfer Forms (WTF)
- Certifications of waste acceptance and destruction when complete.
- An audit trail and report is available through the SWT to assist with end of year AER and regulatory and corporate requirements.
We will ensure that the process is in full compliance with ADR regulations, EPA licence requirements and waste collection permit regulations.
Soltec’s facilities
Soltec has engaged in an ambitious €6 million investment programme to expand our waste and recovery services. In 2019, we secured a second Industrial Emissions Licence from the Environmental Protection Authority. We opened our treatment facility and tank farm in 2021. This new facility has allowed us to increase our capacity by 500% and provide an enhanced number of specialised services to our clientele.
Soltec is committed to providing cost effective yet environmentally sustainable waste solutions. This is possible through our technologically advanced facilities, accreditations and compliance with national and international regulations. This includes:
- A facility licenced by the Environmental Protection Agency (licence ref P1093-01).
- Facilities audited by large pharma and bio medical on a regular basis.
- Accredited to ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard, ISO14001 Environmental Management System and ISO45001 Health and Safety Standard.
- ISO certified laboratory
- 4,597+ tonnes of carbon reduction per year.
- Shortlisted for the Pakman Awards 2022 for Innovation in Waste Resource Products and Services.