We can provide a recycling service for used lead acid batteries as well as common small household batteries such as rechargeable lithium, NiMH, NiCad and single use alkaline. The batteries are safely packed for export to our recycling partners overseas in accordance with the Basel Convention.
Revitalising waste tyres, we transform them into high-quality tyre-derived fuel for industrial use, providing an eco-friendly alternative to stockpiling or landfill disposal.
Our Technical Services team utilise batch distillation technology to recycle solvents and fuels. Contact us for an obligation-free discussion with our specialists.
New Zealand’s unique biodiversity and strong primary industries is heavily dependent on effective biosecurity to keep out pests and diseases. WM Technical Services operates several MPI Approved Transitional Facilities for receiving and destroying biosecurity risk goods. Secure biosecurity or quarantine bin options are available to meet Transitional Facility waste needs.
We recycle customer inks, paints, and thinners into a premium paint spray gun cleaning fluid. Our Chemists balance the different solvent types to get the optimum blend and confirm efficacy through our Quality Controlprotocols.
The WM Technical Services solvent recovery facilitates the distillation and recycling of the D60 partswasher fluid. This product is superb as it is good at dissolving oil and grime, is not flammable or a dangerous good and can be efficiently recycled by distillation repeatedly.
Biohazardous waste arising from chemotherapy cancer treatment is known as cytotoxic waste. Steam sterilisation is not applicable to cytotoxic waste, so WM Technical Services facilitates the safe and secure export of this waste stream to Australia for high temperature incineration.
Waste Management can facilitate the disposal of sensitive documentation via the Rotoclave® steam sterilisation technology.
Our Technical Service division are the experts in handling hazardous substances including packaged chemical wastes. These packages may range from small jars all the way up to 200L drums or 1,000L intermediate bulk containers (IBCs). You can be confident in WM Technical Services to handle your chemical wastes. Our professional chemist team always ensure that flammables, oxidising substances, organic peroxides, toxics, corrosives and ecotoxics are treated in a safe and compliant way.
The group of silicate mineral fibres known as asbestos was used extensively for construction purposes in New Zealand. Raw asbestos wasn't banned until 1999 and asbestos-containing materials weren't banned in NZ until the end of 2016. WM Technical Services can safely accept wetted and double-wrapped ACM in 250-micron plastic and facilitate the special burial required to control this risk.
