Sumas Environmental Services Inc.  

 


Sumas will receive for treatment, consolidation and off-site disposal the following organic waste streams:

  • Oils and solvents,
  • Pesticides and chlorinated hydrocarbons,
  • PCB oils and contaminated material,
  • Labpacks, and
  • Organic contaminated solids and debris

Sumas offers a full service for the treatment of organic liquids and solids through various processes.The most common option is the beneficial use of waste through recycling (recovery through distillation), or fuel blending. In addition, organics can be incinerated and sludgy non-regulated oily material can be solidified for land filling.

Sumas typically offers incineration for waste streams that can not be recycled or used as alternate fuels. Although this is the most expensive option, it is the only option that absolutely removes any future liability. In general Sumas will attempt to recycle these waste streams as alternate fuels where possible.

The organic wastes treated at Sumas facilities include: paints, resins, inks and printing materials, dry cleaning chemicals, industrial oils, labpacks, spray booth sludge, grease and oil filters.

Fuel blending or recycling provides our customers with an option to reuse the product as a feedstock for oil burners, cement kilns, or other industrial furnaces and boilers. This option frequently provides the client with economic advantages over incineration or stabilization for land filling. Fuel blending is a cost effective and extremely economical option for customers if their material contains >5000 Btu energy per pound.

Solvent recycling is the recovery of solvents from used (or spent) solvent waste streams. Typically, the customer's waste solvent is distilled to separate the reusable solvent from other material such as sludge or water. Processing also includes filtration and fractionation, depending on the characteristics of the solvent, the material being removed from it, and the intended future use of the solvent. The reusable solvent is either returned to the customer on a tolling basis or sold to a third party, if the original generator does not want the solvent back. The spent solvent is picked up and transported to a Sumas facility for processing by Sumas owned van or tank trucks.