Waste Minimization

NEIE MWS offers a wide array of Waste Minimization Services to help our Clients reach their recycling and waste minimization goals and reducing their overall cost of waste disposal.

Assistance with LEED compliance:

The intent is to reduce waste disposed of in landfills and incineration facilities by recovering, reusing, and recycling materials.
We can assist in the development and implementation a construction and demolition waste management plan that will consist of:

Establishing waste diversion goals for the project by identifying materials targeted for diversion.
Specifying whether materials will be separated or commingled and work with our client on a diversion strategy for their planned project; and
Identify where the materials will be taken and how the recycling facility will process the material.
Upon implementation we can provide reports detailing all major waste streams generated, including disposal and rates of waste diversion.

Compliance with Executive Order 13101 (September 14, 1998) Greening the Government through Waste Prevention, Recycling and Federal Acquisition.

REUSABLE Sharps Containers

Section 208 - Waste Prevention

The reusable sharps containers prevents our Clients from throwing out a single use sharps container. The reusable sharps containers have a lifecycle of up to 500 uses. In its lifetime each containers prevents an estimated average of 3,000 pounds of plastic from being manufactured, transported, and disposed of in landfills.

Section 209 - Waste Reduction

Reusable sharps containers reduce the overall waste generation by the user because during the shipment process they do not require secondary packaging of red bags and a cardboard box (to be in compliance with the US DOT PGII Packaging Requirements). The sharps containers have a US DOT Special Permit allowing for the transportation of our reusable sharps containers on reusable metal racks. The estimated average waste reduction for each container used is approximately 1 pound of cardboard and red bag plastic reduced from the regulated medical waste stream.

Section 212 - Pollution Prevention

Electro-Thermal Deactivation treatment process has no regulated air emissions or waste water emissions as a result of the treatment of the Regulated Medical Waste (sharps waste).

Waste-to-Energy

Waste-to-energy disposal options can be presented as a recycling option to our clients. NEIE MWS uses waste-to-energy facilities that provides dependable, environmentally safe disposal of municipal solid waste, while generating clean, renewable electricity for sale to the local utility. The facilities have the ability to processes up to 500 tons per day of municipal solid waste and has an electric generating capacity of 15,000 kilowatts; the equivalent of supplying the electrical needs of 18,000 homes to turn it from waste to electricity.