7 Ways to Safely Store Your Hazardous Waste Materials

Ensuring your company promotes a safe working environment is critical when working with hazardous materials, and the appropriate handling and storage of hazardous waste containers is both important environmentally and legally required.

Further to following and understanding federal, provincial and municipal legislation for hazardous waste, here are 7 ways to help you handle and store your waste safely:

1. Keeping an up to date hazardous waste contingency plan, with current contact information for the facility owners and operators as well as emergency procedures and guidelines.
2. Limiting the volume of hazardous waste on-site by continually monitoring your hazardous waste amounts.
3. Implementing a secondary containment system for all hazardous waste containers, and for all hazardous waste transportation equipment for both liquid and or gas.
4. Training all employees adequately on both the handling and the storage of your hazardous waste with the inclusion of emergency response training.
5. Using containers that are sealable to prevent content release and mixing. These containers should be compatible with the type of waste stored and made of durable weather and corrosion resistant materials.
6. Displaying prominently the weather-resistant labels that clearly show the hazardous waste, following all WHIMIS, safety and legislative guidelines,  
7. Ensuring hazardous waste is stored in an inaccessible area to unauthorized people, with identification as a hazardous waste storage area, designed to prevent secondary containment.

To avoid storing hazardous waste at your site, you can consider using a hazardous liquid waste treatment and disposal, for over 40 years Maratek Environmental has operated a hazardous waste recycling and disposal facility in the Greater Toronto Area.

Our highly trained staff will pick-up and treat or dispose of your company’s liquid waste while conforming to Ontario’s Ministry of Environment stringent standards. Our certified waste support experts will create a custom waste service program for you, that will remove your waste materials at a time that suits you and ensure you are compliant with both local and provincial regulations.

We can offer you:

• All Inclusive pricing
• Compliance support
• Printed labels and manifests
• Treatment of your waste
• Customized schedules for pick ups
• Access to your account’s history, paperwork and information
• Pre-handling and transportation inspection 

You'll be in good hands at Maratek - As market leaders in waste recycling for the last 20 years, we take pride in providing our customers throughout North America with reliable, innovative, and cost saving recycling solutions. Contact us today and we'll help you to establish a safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly solution for solvent or wastewater recovery and recycling.