Oil Recycling & Filtration
When it comes to used oils the question arises - Should I recycle or dispose of my used oils?
Consider one thing: Is your used oil really waste or could it be filtered and re-used? It is more efficient to look at filtering a drying your used oils, rather than disposal. For the cost of analysing your oil just once, we can determine if your oil is fit to recycle, which will save you time, money and also reduce your companies environmental footprint. Contact us to discuss your precise requirements.
We offer many different services to help your company to enable you to reuse oils and keep diesel fuel clean & dry. Oils do not wear out, but become contaminated with dust, dirt, wear debris and water. Reducing efficiencies and accelerating internal wear of equipment.
We can offer an oil collection service, or you can arrange to deliver to our facility, where we can filter and dry the fluid to the correct ISO/NAS specification and then have it returned it to your site. We can also attend your site to carry out the filtration or hire you the equipment. We have on rig capabilities for monitoring cleanliness levels during filtration and laboratory to provide detailed analysis of the before and after filtration. All backed up with ISO accreditation.
Full laboratory oil analysis is performed and detailed reports are supplied to confirm that the oil is fit for use again in your assets. We can also filter new oils for those applications that need really clean oil (e.g. Turbine Oil to NAS CLASS 6).
If you have used oil stored and are thinking of disposing of it, think again: by filtering and drying back to specification, you can easily reduce your costs, manpower, contact with fluids and reduce environmental footprint.
Disposing of Waste Oil: The Environment Agency
In the highly unlikely event your oil is not suitable to be filtered, or it would not prove cost effective to do so (again highly unlikely), then your waste oil must be disposed of correctly: Your site must be registered with the Environment Agency and you must have an up to date waste registration number.
Hazardous waste is waste that is dangerous to people, the environment or animals. Under the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005, it is an offence to produce hazardous waste at premises, or remove that waste from premises, unless those premises are either registered or are exempt. When you register your premises you receive a unique premises number called a 'premises code'. This code is valid for 12 months from the date of registration. If hazardous waste continues to be produced or removed from these premises after expiry then the premises code must be renewed. You can read guidance on how to register your premises on the link below.
Environmental Protection Act: The Duty of Care
The Duty of Care is set out in section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and associated regulations. It applies to anyone who is the holder of controlled waste.
Persons concerned with controlled waste must ensure that the waste is managed properly, recovered or disposed of safely, does not cause harm to human health or pollution of the environment and is only transferred to someone who is authorised to receive it. The duty applies to any person who produces, imports, carries, keeps, treats, or disposes of controlled waste or as a broker has control of such waste.
Breach of the Duty of Care is an offence, with a penalty of up to £5000 on summary conviction or an unlimited fine on conviction of indictment.
Under the Duty of Care Regulations 1991 (the 1991 regulations), parties transferring waste are required to complete and retain a 'transfer note', containing a written description of that waste. Defra has provided statutory guidance on the completion of the duty of care transfer note. Regulations now require waste to be described on the transfer note by reference to the European Waste Catalogue (EWC) and its appropriate code number.
These amendments to the 1991 regulations were brought in to meet the landfill directive's requirements on monitoring the acceptance and treatment of waste, and will also help to fulfil the UK's obligation to implement the EWC.