Our approach to providing customers with a comprehensive waste management solution starts with waste identification, evaluation, and classification.  We help you determine the type of waste you have based on your processes, available MSDS information and, when required, sampling and analysis.  In most cases only MSDS and process information is required.


Profiling

From this information a waste profile is developed.  The profile includes critical chemical and physical information including proper shipping name, hazard class and RQ, and EPA/state waste designation.  This information is used for the proper characterization of your waste and to assess potential options for reuse, recycling, treatment, and disposal.

Next, our technical department reviews your waste profile information to determine if the waste is hazardous or non-hazardous.  Once this designation is made, ESI explores available beneficial reuse, recycling, treatment, and disposal options.  These options are presented to you along with pricing and liability considerations.  Finally, the profile is used as the basis for acceptance by the designated treatment/disposal facility.


Transportation

Upon facility acceptance, ESI schedules waste pickup on a mutually agreeable date—usually within three days in the Puget Sound area, and on our regularly scheduled runs in other parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. ESI operates its own trucks and employs its own full-time drivers to ensure safe on-time pickup.  In case of weather or traffic delays, ESI drivers carry cell phones to advise customers of any schedule changes.

When the ESI truck arrives at your facility, the driver will have all necessary manifests, LDR's, labels and all other documents and placards to properly transport your waste.


Technical Services

Throughout the transportation and disposal process ESI’s technical and sales staff is available to answer questions and help you to interpret complex state and federal waste regulations.

In addition to waste treatment and disposal services, we offer environmental services to clients who seek assistance in managing, consolidating, and classifying potentially hazardous waste.  ESI employs a staff of OSHA-certified chemists and field technicians for waste lab-packing in accordance with USDOT requirements.  Lab packing is often the most cost-effective way to package and dispose of small containers of miscellaneous chemicals such as those found in industrial, pharmaceutical, research, and school laboratories.

ESI’s chemists, in concert with specialist outside contractors, aid clients in the deactivation of explosive chemicals and in the disposal of radioactive chemicals.

ESI’s technical staff also has experience in draining and flushing PCB transformers, remediating contaminated soil, pumping and rinsing tanks containing hazardous materials, bulking and consolidating large quantities of waste in drums, and bulk trucks, and relocating pharmaceutical and biotechnology laboratories.


Respected in the Industry

ESI counts among its customers the Everett, lssaquah, and Renton School Districts, Simpson Timber, O’Brien International, US Army Corps of Engineers,Port of Tacoma, Bonneville Power Administration, Alcoa, Westport Shipyard, Pioneer Industries, NOAA, Pace International, Willamette Industries, PrecorUSA; GM Nameplate; Eldec; Sharp Microelectronics; numerous state and federal institutions; Fortune 1000 and 500 companies; as well as hundreds of small and medium-sized commercial enterprises.

Learn more about Envirotech in our SOQ.