Hazardous Waste

XMED provides affordable and dependable hazardous waste collection, transport and disposal services to the health care industry and many other commercial enterprises.  Additionally, we assist customers with special situations requiring hazardous waste removal and disposal. Our professionals will assist you in evaluating your waste removal and disposal requirements, answer your questions and give you a fair value quote to assist you with your specific needs.

Hazardous Waste Disposal Containers

XMED assesses your situation and provides you with a customized solution that safely and economically meets your needs. We properly identify, categorize and segregate waste to minimize expense and assure compliance with existing regulations. We contract with multiple destination facility vendors to ensure the most cost effective disposal solution for your situation. XMED will pick up your hazardous waste in our route service region and provide secure transportation to the right treatment or disposal facility. In other areas, we assess your needs and recommend appropriate options. We provide accurate and compliant manifest preparation and documentation and offer competitive pricing and courteous timely service. We actively support our customers in order to meet their individual needs, regulatory restrictions and the requirements of disposal vendors.

 

XMED disposes of many types of hazardous waste: These include but are not limited to:

• Chemotherapy waste

• Pathological waste

• Hematology reagents

• Batteries (all types)

• Cleaning solutions

• X-RAY fixer and developer

• Mercury and dental amalgam

• Xylene

• Fluorescent light bulbs

• Electronics

 

Others materials include:
• Flammables (Waste Paints, Thinners, Adhesives)
• Corrosives (Waste Acids, Caustics)
• Oxidizers - (Waste Peroxides/Reactives)
• Toxic Wastes (Poisons, Metals and other Listed Hazardous Wastes)
• Non-Hazardous Wastes (Petroleum Contaminated Soils/Waste Oils and Oil Filters)
• Gray and Black Water (Septage and Galley Waste)
• Contact Water (Petroleum Contact Water)
• Special Waste (Batteries, Fluorescent Lamps, Asbestos, Mercury containing Instruments)
• Lab Packs (Institutional and Laboratory Chemicals)
• Pressurized Cylinders (including Aerosol Cans)
• Low Level Radioactive Waste (Depleted Uranium Counterweight)

 

XMED will contract to manage most hazardous waste situations to a successful and environmental responsible conclusion. We assess each site and determine the most cost effective and compliant methods to remove the waste and rehabilitate the location.

 

*XMED specifically excludes waste deemed to be highly radioactive because of the health concerns for our employees and strict regulatory and treatment requirements. XMED tests every load for radioactivity prior to unloading. Material that has been cooled down for extended periods can be will be treated as low-level radioactive substances.

 

XMED provides advice and training on the safe and cost-effective handling, packaging and transport of medical, hazardous and non-hazardous waste material.

 

Types of hazardous waste:
EPA categorizes waste into a number of specific classes. The lists are organized into three categories.
1. The F-list (non-specific source wastes).
2. The K-list (source-specific wastes).
3. The P-list and the U-list (discarded commercial chemical products).

 

Waste that have not been specifically listed may still be considered a hazardous waste if exhibits one of the four characteristics defined in 40 CFR Part 261 Subpart C - ignitability (D001), corrosivity (D002), reactivity (D003), and toxicity (D004 - D043).

 

EPA's universal waste regulations streamline hazardous waste management standards for federally designated "universal wastes," which include:
• batteries
• pesticides
• mercury-containing equipment and
• bulbs (lamps)

 

The regulations govern the collection and management of these widely generated wastes, thus facilitating environmentally sound collection and proper recycling or treatment.

 

These regulations also ease the regulatory burden on retail stores and others that wish to collect these wastes and encourage the development of municipal and commercial programs to reduce the quantity of these wastes going to municipal solid waste landfills or combustors. In addition, the regulations also ensure that the wastes subject to this system will go to appropriate treatment or recycling facilities pursuant to the full hazardous waste regulatory controls.

 

The federal universal waste regulations are set forth in 40 CFR part 273. States can modify the universal waste rule and add additional universal waste(s) in individual state regulations so check with your state for the exact regulations that apply.

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