Chemical Packing

Jul 7, 2020

Clean Harbors highly skilled staff provide comprehensive chemical packing, transportation and disposal for routine or emergency needs.

Managing and disposing of the widest range of chemicals, including reactives and compressed gases, in a safe, environmentally sound manner requires specific technical expertise. Clean Harbors Chemical Packing experts routinely handle and transport such materials from facilities across North America.

Our Chemical Packing Services

Clean Harbors offers full- and self-service Chemical Packing solutions for any size of operation and any quantity of materials, including:

Lab Pack Disposal
Chemical Waste Removal
Laboratory Moves – Single or multiple lab moves
DEA Controlled Substance Management – DEA Schedule I to V Material
Reactive Material Services
Cylinder and Compressed Gas Management
Radioactive Services and Disposal – Broad range of radiological services ensuring compliance with DOT, TDG, NRC, Environment Canada, federal, state, provincial and local regulations

Clean Harbors chemists perform lab packing for schools, hospitals, research laboratories, and the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries. Our expertise, manpower and scope of services make us the premier solution for your chemical packing needs.

CleanPack® Laboratory Chemical Packing

Our chemists access a database with more than 150,000 unique chemicals for laboratory chemical packing.

Clean Harbors proprietary CleanPack Laboratory Chemical Packing services provide proper recognition, handling, packaging, transportation and disposal of laboratory chemicals. We also perform laboratory relocations, closures and cleanouts.

Clean Harbors can manage virtually any chemical found in a laboratory environment including:

RCRA and non-RCRA chemicals
TSCA, DEA, radioactive, mixed waste and universal waste
Biological and etiological chemicals
Compressed gas and cylinders
Toxic, flammable, oxidizer, organic peroxide and corrosive materials
Pyrophoric, gases, aerosol, unknown, reactive, explosive and shock-sensitive materials
Ethers, THF, dioxane and sodium azide

Compliance

Throughout the chemical packing and disposal process, our skilled chemists help ensure your compliance with the latest EPA, DOT, TDG and Environment Canada regulations and record-keeping.

Reactive Material Services

We work with many universities and colleges throughout the country.

Clean Harbors provides a wide array of Reactive Material Services to ensure secure chemical management and safe disposal of unstable and explosive materials.

Clean Harbors has extensive experience working with unstable and shock-sensitive materials, as well as managing disposal of explosives and materials restricted from transportation. With a vast transportation fleet and permitted transfer storage and disposal facilities throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, we provide turnkey reactive material services.

Reactive Material Services require specialized expertise and diverse techniques to ensure safety and compliance. Clean Harbors deploys multiple approaches to fulfill these goals.

Container Evaluation

Clean Harbors has standard operating procedures for the proper identification and evaluation of shock-sensitive, peroxidizable and unknown reactive materials. We follow strict evaluation criteria including age, storage conditions, exposure, contamination and stability.

Chemical Stabilization

Clean Harbors understands the disadvantages of controlled detonation and has developed sound chemical stabilization techniques that enable us to manage the following types of potentially unstable materials (along with others on a case-by-case basis):

Peroxide-forming compounds
Temperature-sensitive compounds
Organic peroxides
Shock-sensitive compounds
Multi-nitrated compounds
Azides

Remote Container Opening Procedures

Our Reactive Material specialists take every precaution and limit the handling of hazardous and potentially unstable materials. We use specially designed equipment for all reactive remediation and stabilization projects, including pneumatically driven machinery that can remotely open a container.

Engineering Controls and Personal Protective Equipment

Our state-of-the-art engineering controls include devices such as:

Trailer-mounted blast deflection units
Portable remote openers with bomb blanket and safety circle
Custom-designed remote drum openers
ATF Type III Blasters day boxes

Our personal protective equipment protects our employees from high heat, flames and explosions and includes:

Fire proximity suits
Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) protective search suits
Riot helmet, Kevlar® vest, and Nomex® coveralls (standard issue)

Unknown Compound Fingerprint Analysis

Our CleanPack® chemists provide fingerprint analysis for unknown compounds within lab pack-sized containers provided that the materials pass our safety evaluation. If these materials fail the evaluation and are suspected to be shock-sensitive, unstable or reactive, they must be remotely opened and tested before packaging.

Source: http://www.cleanharbors.com/services/technical-services/chemical-packing

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Chemical Packing