Disposal Methods
This is the process of burning hazardous materials at temperatures high enough to destroy contaminants.
What is Incineration?
This disaster happened in 2010 starting with an explosion causing a catastrophic leak that took 3 months to resolve spilling approximately 134 million gallons of waste.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
This is a type of location where 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?
This is the transport company that was acquired by Heritage Environmental in 2022, known as Niagra.
What is Franks Vacuum Truck Service?
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?
This is the 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?
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
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 (CAM)?
This is the fuel blending facility acquired by Heritage Environmental in 2017, known as Benton.
What is Rineco Chemical?
This is the 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?
This is the process that burns municipal solid waste (household trash) or non hazardous materials to produce steam in a boiler. That steam can then be used to power an electric generator turbine.
What is Waste to Energy?
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?
This department specializes in the disposal of large volume 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 (H-SPG)?
This is the facility that was acquired by Heritage Environmental in 2005 originally called Vonroll, known as ELO.
What is Heritage Thermal Services?
This is the 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?
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?
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?
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?
This is the original name of our business when founded in the 1970's.
What is Industrial Liquid Waste Disposal (ILWD)?
This is the 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 include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the establishment of superfund, or CERCLA.
What is Clean Water Act?
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.
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?
This is a type of location that could include Technical Services, Field Services, and/or a 10-day and has oversight from an Area Manager.
What is a Service Center?
In what year did our landfill in Roachdale, IN start operating?
What is 1980?
This is a group of chemicals used to make fluoropolymer coatings and products that resist heat, oil, stains, grease, and water; also known as Forever Chemicals.
What is PFAS?