Hazardous Waste Disposal

Hazardous chemicals are the unavoidable by-product of medical laboratories requiring the utmost care in their disposal. Citiwaste understands how critical hazardous waste management is to the success of health-care facilities especially those in lab-style settings where an abundance of bodily fluids and chemicals are processed daily. Our comprehensive array of hazardous waste disposal services and conscientious compliance with industry standards are what set us apart from the competition and makes us a provider of choice in NYC , New York state, and New Jersey. Citiwaste is committed to helping your facility remain compliant with all federal, state and local laws, reducing your liability exposure, minimizing costs, and reaching environment-friendly objectives.

Fully compliant chemical waste disposal

Properly managing chemicals is about more than meeting government-mandated environmental protection standards. From hazardous chemical waste disposal to lab packing services, the technicians of Citiwaste ensure that your medical facility or lab is fully compliant with US Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. Proper handling also protects your staff and patients from leaks, hazardous reactions, contamination, and contact with unidentified chemicals. Our classification, packaging, removal and disposal frees up usable space to declutter, organize and streamline your facility.

Lab pack services in New York and New Jersey

A lab pack is a method of managing both non-hazardous and hazardous materials such as lab chemicals, samples, cleaning and maintenance supplies. To keep in full compliance with all New York and New Jersey regulatory standards, Citiwaste creates comprehensive and thorough lab waste disposal plans. Whether the waste generated by your facility calls for autoclaving, incineration, microwave or chemical disinfection, we have the capacity and technical expertise required to handle any job.

Our highly trained professionals have extensive knowledge of regulatory and disposal protocols for acids, bases, reagents, aerosols, cleaners, disinfectants, inks, dyes, paints, stripping chemicals, solvents and unidentified materials.

Common hazardous waste chemicals include:

• Acetone
• Benzene
• Cadmium
• Ethanol
• Ethylene Oxide
• Formaldehyde
• Lead
• Methanol
• Methylene Chloride
• Silica
• Xylene

In addition to routine lab packing services, Citiwaste also offers more services such as lab moves and decontamination projects.

Lab Packing & Hazardous waste disposal

A typical lab pack conducted by Citiwaste will generally unfold in the following manner:

• A highly trained crew conducts an inventory, classifies, segregates and packages off-spec, outdated, excess, hazardous waste and unknown materials into the proper bins and containers.
• Citiwaste prepares the DOT-approved containers to regulatory standards, including all necessary labels, shipping documents and paperwork.
• Our team either removes the lab waste that same day or on a scheduled run with a specialized fleet to the nearest permitted Transfer, Storage and Disposal Facilities. We can remove waste on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or on-call basis.

A cost-effective lab waste disposal

To keep our costs affordable, we pride ourselves on producing the fewest number of containers to avoid the additional expense for our customers.

Additionally, Citiwaste customers pay:

• No service charge
• No fuel charge
• No environmental charge
• No hidden fees

Choose a leading provider in hazardous waste disposal

Since 2006, Citiwaste has been helping medical and other facilities throughout New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet their hazardous laboratory waste management objectives, achieve full regulatory compliance and minimize risks to their personnel. If you operate a medical waste-generating facility in Rockland, Westchester, Orange or Dutchess County in New York state, NYC and the outer boroughs, or New Jersey, we invite you to learn more about our comprehensive services. To discuss a waste management plan that is custom-tailored to your needs, contact us at 877.535.CITI (2484).