Hazardous Waste Audits

Why Choose Novus Environmental for Your Hazardous Waste Audit? 

When you book a hazardous waste audit with Novus Environmental, you’re getting much more than an administrative check. You’re gaining a partner that will bring insight and experience to help you manage your business’s waste responsibly and effectively, make cost savings and reduce your environmental impact.

With our waste audit services you receive: 

1) Unmatched Expertise: With over 15 years in business, and more than 50 years’ combined experience in the waste sector among our senior management, we’ve managed all kinds of hazardous materials, whether it’s chemical byproducts and industrial solvents or electronic waste and expired stock.

2) Detailed Reporting: An audit is nothing without a report. After each waste audit, we deliver a comprehensive waste stream report giving you an unprecedented insight into your business, organisation or process. The report will highlight inefficiencies or compliance shortcomings and present solutions for better and safer management.

3) Ongoing Support: Beyond an audit, our experienced experts can guide you on waste segregation, further recycling opportunities, changes in regulation and cost-saving alternatives for disposal and treatment methods.

Our goal is always to simply ensure that your business is safe, compliant and environmentally responsible.

What Is a Hazardous Waste Audit? 

A hazardous waste audit is a full structured review of the waste streams generated in your organisation. The hazardous products and streams are identified by type and quantity, as well as how they’re stored, managed and disposed of.

As part of hazardous waste audits, our experts will review your waste records, invoices and permits to understand what streams they expect to record. Then they will directly measure waste outputs – weighing, sorting and classifying waste and identifying and confirming which hazardous materials are present.

They’ll assess your bins, containers, signs and storage facilities to see that they’re safe and suitable for the waste being produced. They will walk through your site to identify, confirm and classify waste-producing processes and any compliance gaps – they may well find that there are waste streams present that you haven’t anticipated in your planning. There will also be practical recommendations for improved efficiency, safer handling and cost savings.

All this comes together in a clear report giving you an accurate picture of your hazardous waste responsibilities, and one drawn from direct observation rather than desk-based prediction. And always backed by our professional insight as one of the UK’s most trusted hazardous waste service providers.

The Benefits of a Hazardous Waste Audit 

A hazardous waste audit from Novus Environmental delivers benefits across every aspect of your business.

1) Accurate Information for Better Decisions: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. A waste audit provides the insight you need to make smarter decisions. These can be in management, purchasing, process or supply chain.

2) Reduced Costs: It’s normally the case that hazardous waste is more expensive to handle and dispose of than general waste. An audit can reveal opportunities to minimise volumes, improve segregation and enhance recycling. So the expensive processes for hazardous materials are only applied where needed.

3) Full Legal Compliance: On the other hand, failing to identify and handle hazardous waste correctly can also lead to increased financial, legal and reputational risks. With our audits, you’ll know exactly what waste you’re producing and how it should be handled. This will avoid costly compliance issues – ignorance is not a defence if you’re found in breach!

4) Enhanced Recycling: Many hazardous waste streams also contain recyclable materials that are being lost in general waste. Our audits can reveal where opportunities are to separate, treat or otherwise properly manage these streams, reducing both your environmental impact and your costs.

5) Protect Your Reputation: Your stakeholders, customers, clients and employees want proof that your business or organisation is taking its responsibility to the environment seriously. A hazardous waste audit gives you that proof, and the confidence to showcase your compliance, sustainability and waste management improvements.

6) Gain Environmental Accreditations: A waste audit from accredited and reputed specialists like Novus Environmental strengthens your own eligibility for external certifications and sustainability ratings, from ISO standards to national schemes to industry-specific accreditations.

Why Hazardous Waste Audits Are Essential 

With good reason, hazardous waste is one of the most highly regulated types of waste in the UK. When improperly managed, it can expose your employees and your customers to environmental harm, and it can expose your business or organisation to reputational damage and potentially severe fines or penalties.

A waste audit can ensure that your hazardous waste disposal, handling and storage processes are safe, appropriate and compliant. Issues identified by an audit may be small, such as excess stock of expired cleaning chemicals in a cupboard, or tins of paint left over from a refurbishment which could be safely and affordably disposed of. Or there may be an inadvertent major issue – an overlooked waste stream that actually qualifies as hazardous. Batteries, old electronic equipment, solvents and other innocuous products could be in this group. These require specialist handling to stay compliant.

Whatever the scale, Novus Environmental identifies these risks and provides solutions before they become costly problems.

A professional waste audit is an investment in:

• A safer workplace for your employees.
• Reduced risk of fines and penalties.
• Optimised waste handling, segregation and recycling.
• A more sustainable and cost-effective approach.

Start Your Hazardous Waste Audit Today 

At Novus Environmental, we make it simple to take control of your hazardous waste. Our accredited experts deliver audits that are practical, actionable and tailored to your business.

No matter your size or sector, we can help you.

Don’t wait until a problem arises - proactively manage your hazardous waste today.

Contact Novus Environmental now to book your Hazardous Waste Audit and take the first step toward safer, smarter waste management.