WM New Zealand supports customers by supplying a variety of spill response equipment options such as booms, pads, and mineral sponge or full kits depending on the requirement. We can also take away the used equipment after a spill clean up has taken place.
We recycle customer inks, paints, and thinners into a premium paint spray gun cleaning fluid. Our Chemists balance the different solvent types to get the optimum blend and confirm efficacy through our Quality Controlprotocols.
The WM Technical Services solvent recovery facilitates the distillation and recycling of the D60 partswasher fluid. This product is superb as it is good at dissolving oil and grime, is not flammable or a dangerous good and can be efficiently recycled by distillation repeatedly.
We facilitate the recycling of spent oil filters out of workshops and garages. The Oil filters are hydraulically crushed into blocks of steel for metal recycling and the recovered oil is sent to the WM New Zealand Oil Recovery team in Tauranga.
Biohazardous waste arising from chemotherapy cancer treatment is known as cytotoxic waste. Steam sterilisation is not applicable to cytotoxic waste, so WM Technical Services facilitates the safe and secure export of this waste stream to Australia for high temperature incineration.
Waste Management can facilitate the disposal of sensitive documentation via the Rotoclave® steam sterilisation technology.
Where substances are not able to be recycled or disposed of in New Zealand they are known as Intractable. These intractable products include Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), some pesticides, halogenated solvents, and Poly- & Per- Fluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) firefighting foams. The substances are packed and shipped to our disposal partners in Australia and Europe. These facilities undertake the high temperature incineration of these products. WM Technical Services is the industry expert in hazardous waste export which is governed closely by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and Basel & Stockholm Conventions.
Our Technical Service division are the experts in handling hazardous substances including packaged chemical wastes. These packages may range from small jars all the way up to 200L drums or 1,000L intermediate bulk containers (IBCs). You can be confident in WM Technical Services to handle your chemical wastes. Our professional chemist team always ensure that flammables, oxidising substances, organic peroxides, toxics, corrosives and ecotoxics are treated in a safe and compliant way.
The group of silicate mineral fibres known as asbestos was used extensively for construction purposes in New Zealand. Raw asbestos wasn't banned until 1999 and asbestos-containing materials weren't banned in NZ until the end of 2016. WM Technical Services can safely accept wetted and double-wrapped ACM in 250-micron plastic and facilitate the special burial required to control this risk.
WM Technical Services runs one of New Zealand’s most comprehensive certified vacuum tanker fleets. Our trucks are fully compliant with the applicable Worksafe Approved Codes of Practice for road tank wagons which gives you the peace of mind that your bulk hazardous waste is handled under best practice guidelines.
