How to Deal With Trade Waste In Your Business?

 

Are you producing more waste today than a few years ago? Reducing waste while running your business can help save you on expensive waste hauling. Managing your trade waste properly also contributes to corporate social responsibility and demonstrates industry leadership by minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and global hazards to human health due to the waste streams.

 

When your business is a discharger of trade waste, you are responsible for self-monitoring trade waste discharges, preparing waste reduction plans, maintaining trade waste apparatus, paying trade waste charges, preventing non-compliances, having an updated consent, and applying for a consent.

 

Call a Plumbing Company

 

You can use the services of a reputable plumbing company to help with the treatment and management of your trade waste. A team will provide your business with assistance to cover essential objectives. These include protecting the sewerage systems, the treatment works, and the health and safety of people on the premises. Moreover, the goals involve maximizing the reuse of biosolids and wastewater, as well as minimizing environmental impacts.

 

To confirm requirements, call the plumbing company before the installation of trade waste infrastructure, and the discharge of wastewater. The mandatory requirements may include the wastewater quality, pre-treatment facilities, discharge approval, trade wastewater agreement, and allowed times of discharge.

 

With regards to the application of trade waste, it is best to have experienced plumbers who specialize in trade waste. If you choose a plumbing company that is offering services for many years, most likely they have a team with the necessary skills and expertise.

 

You need to provide the volume of trade waste (preferably in litres) you produce on a daily basis. You will also need to show the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) of the products you use during your business operation. You will require ongoing maintenance, and a plumbing company can give you a maintenance team to handle the work for you. Allow 2-3 months for the process of your application.

 

Keep in mind that it is an offence to discharge your commercial trade waste without a consent. The water authority regularly conducts monitoring to identify violators. Severe penalties may incur, such as fines and criminal prosecution for breaches.

 

What to Expect From a Site Inspection?

 

Trade waste officers carry out site inspections regularly and take a sample of the trade waste in case there is a discharge to the sewer. Site inspections are also an opportunity for your company and the water authority officers to discuss trade waste issues, for example, cleaner production and waste management.

 

If you discharge trade waste to the sewer but the wastewater is only in small quantities, the authorities may consider you as minor trade waste and similar to domestic sewage. Minor trade waste business can discharge to the sewer without applying for a consent.

 

This permission depends on the installation of pretreatment standards and other necessary requirements. This installation is your responsibility. On the other hand, if your business is related to food, it is a must to have trade waste consent as well as putting an interceptor in place before you begin your operation.