Disposal Methods
Environmental Disasters
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HES History
Misc.
100

This process burns municipal solid waste (household trash) to produce steam in a boiler. The steam is then used to power an electric generator turbine.

What is Waste-to-Energy?

100

This disaster happened in 1999 spanning 50 miles. A manufacturing company dumped thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals killing over 4 million fish.

White River Fish Kill

100

A location for a haz waste transporter that can hold waste without a storage permit as a transfer facility before waste arrives at a TSD.

What is a 10-day?

100

This is the transport company that was acquired by Heritage Environmental in 2022.

What is Franks Vacuum Truck Service?

100

Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses, they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.

What are fertilizers and pesticides?

200

This is the process of burning hazardous materials at temperatures high enough to destroy contaminants

What is Incineration?

200

This disaster happened in 2010 starting with an explosion causing a catastrophic leak that took 3 months to resolved spilling approximately 134 million gallons of waste.

What is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?

200

This team works together with Customer Experience, Compliance, and TSD's to analyze customer waste profiles and assign product codes for proper disposal methods and TSD's.

What is Approvals?

200

This is the fuel blending facility acquired by Heritage Environmental in 2017.

What is Rineco Chemical?

200

Paperwork used to track hazardous waste from the generator site through to the TSD and includes signatures from the generator, transporter(s), and TSD.

What is a manifest?

300

This is a process that involves the mixture of hazardous waste and commercial fuel to meet the specifications needed for incineration, cement kilns, or an industrial furnace.

What is fuel blending?

300

This disaster happened between 1942 and 1953 where Hooker Electrochemical (now Occidental) used this abandoned space to dispose over 21,000 tons of hazardous chemicals which leaked into the soil and groundwater.

What is Love Canal?

300

A location that includes Technical Services, Field Services, and/or 10-day and has oversight from an Area Manager.

What is a Service Center?

300

This is the facility that was acquired by Heritage Environmental in 2005 originally called Vonroll.

What is Heritage Thermal Services?

300

Measure of an individual's impact on the environment by calculating Greenhouse gas emissions from their lifestyle (i.e. consumption and transportation).

What is Carbon Footprint?

400

This is a process which removes and eliminates contaminates from wastewater and converts this into an effluent that can be returned to the water cycle.

What is Aqueous Treatment?

400

This disaster happened in 1979 where a nuclear generating station released radioactive gasses and radioactive iodine where a mechanical failure allowed large amounts of water to escape from the pressurized isolated coolant loop.

What is the Three Mile Island Accident?

400

This group works as a function of sales with customer accounts that have locations which span across the country, or a specific region, and require 1 individual to oversee pricing, projects, and customer needs for all locations.

What is a Corporate Account Manager?

400

This is the year our landfill in Roachdale, IN started.

What is 1980?

400

A group of chemicals used to make fluoropolymer coatings and products that resist heat, oil, stains, grease, and water, also called Forever Chemicals.

What is PFAS?

500

This is a process of chemical changes of hazardous constituents that involves mixing a binding reagent into the contaminated media or waste to convert into a less soluble, mobile, or toxic form.

What is Stabilization?
500

This disaster happened in 1984 where more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaded from a pesticide plant. Investigators later established that substandard operating and safety procedures at the understaffed plant had led to the disaster.

What is the Bhopal Disaster?

500

Specializes in the disposal of bulk hazardous waste and multiple rail, barge, and truck modalities for shipping waste to key Heritage-owned and operated disposal facilities.

What is Strategic Projects Group (H-SPG)?

500

This is the original name of our business when founded in the 1970's.

What is Industrial Liquid Waste Disposal?

500

Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the establishment of superfund, or CERCLA

What is Clean Water Act?