Waste

Special Waste and Assured Destruction Services for Confidential or Dangerous Materials

When it comes to getting rid of your sensitive or special waste, Wheelabrator is one of the leading companies in the country that offers reliable, cost-effective assured destruction.

While most waste can be sent to a landfill for disposal, certain special waste materials may be too confidential or too sensitive to simply discard in the usual manner. For those waste materials, think destruction instead of disposal.
Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, is a nationally recognized industry leader in technology that uses environmentally safe, high-temperature combustion to convert non-hazardous solid waste into electrical energy.

Many of Wheelabrator's waste-to-energy facilities around the country offer Assured Destruction Services guaranteed to absolutely, positively, completely destroy your waste materials. Safely, efficiently and affordably.

For the past 30 years, we've supervised the complete and compliant destruction of:

• proprietary business documents
• discarded healthcare and other consumer products
• pharmaceutical waste
• USDA regulated international waste
• illegal weapons and drugs seized by law enforcement agencies

Our Assured Destruction Services are safe.
Our facilities meet all federal, state and local permit requirements and they are scrutinized by internal environmental auditors. These services are performed efficiently and supervised carefully by highly trained technicians whose capabilities meet or exceed standards set by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Best of all, the costs of our services are competitive with alternate disposal methods.

Our services are backed by a written guarantee.
Wheelabrator backs these Assured Destruction Services with a certificate of 100% destruction guaranteed. You can even witness the "burn" at one of our many facilities to confirm the thoroughness of our process as well as its end results.

You can depend on us.
You can count on us to make your sensitive waste materials disappear, along with any legal liabilities that they could cause you. And Wheelabrator assures complete confidentiality - for both your materials and your organization.

Examples of Special Waste materials Wheelabrator's waste-to-energy facilities generally can accept:

• Defective, damaged, recalled or outdated consumer products, such as health and beauty aids; prescription and over-the-counter medication; food and beverage items; household cleaners; paint; apparel; small appliances/electronics; etc.
• Confidential or sensitive documents in paper, tape, or CD-ROM form, such as medical or financial records; government agency/embassy files; legal documents; confidential business information; currency; postage stamps; etc.
• Contraband confiscated by federal, state or local law enforcement agencies, such as illegal drugs; weapons; patent and trademark infringement products; etc.
• Pharmaceutical or laboratory waste, such as off-spec raw materials or finished products; production overruns; damaged, contaminated or mislabeled packaging; expired drugs; returned final products; lab packs; etc.
• Other non-hazardous manufacturing or industrial waste, such as trimmings; production overruns; off-spec materials; packaging; clean-up debris; etc.
• USDA-regulated international waste from cruise ships, seaports, and airports.
• Non-hazardous waste blends from special waste treatment and blending facilities.