Interwaste

Mining Solutions

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Interwaste prides itself on the ability to develop specialized service packages tailored to individual mining waste and mining service requirements.

Spill Kits

Immediate action in the event of an incident can often drastically reduce any negative impact. Hazmat1 supplies a wide variety of spill kits, each individually tailored to client specific needs.These kits range from custom steel lockers containing a comprehensive range of protective clothing and equipment, tools and various absorbent products, to compact emergency spill kits which are neatly stored in 240 litre Otto bins.Mini kits designed to be carried on vehicles are also available.

On-site training is given with all spill kits supplied and individual items are stocked to be re-supplied as they are consumed.

Hazmat1 also supplies a waste sawdust based absorbent material which is cost effective enough to use for daily clean-up situations.

Dust Boss

The DustBoss will help stabilize surface dust and prevent airborne migration dust during extraction, crushing, loading or transporting of mining material. The units can be positioned above or below ground to help reduce health and air quality concerns. The fine mist generated by the units will not over saturate the target material, ensuring the quality of your end product won’t be compromised. It can even be used to condition aggregate for use in concrete.

Effluent Treatment

The effluent treatment division adds value to the Interwaste list of mining services by providing either on-site or centralised treatment of waste water.

The division specifically aims to recover value from the waste water by metals recovery and the production of chemical precipitates, or the abstraction of energy from organic-rich waters.

The ultimate aim of the division is:

- To eliminate the disposal of brine to landfill,

- To reduce the impact of industrial discharge water to sewer or other receiving waters, and

- To recover valuable by-products that reduce the overall effluent treatment costs.

The division offers process engineering consultation, process development, operation and monitoring services for effluent treatment plants, to remove the hassle of this non-core business function.

Plant & Equipment Hire

LA& EQUIPMENT HIRE

Specialist items such as tub grinders, shredders and power sieves are available and rental agreements can be arranged on daily, monthly and longer term full maintenance contracts.

Interwaste currently operates rolling plant and equipment from its’ various depots countrywide. If logistically feasible this plant and equipment, including yellow plant and waste handling equipment, is available for hire.

Landfill Management

The core business of the landfill division is the management of landfill operations countrywide.

Strict administrative procedures, operational controls and regulatory compliance are necessary to ensure that every facility operates at maximum levels of safety and efficiency:

- At the entrance and weighbridge the company ensures that every aspect of operation complies with both short and long term objectives.

- Accurate record keeping on a daily basis ensures no negative impact on the long term viability of the site.

- These records also ensure that clients are billed correctly for the volumes of waste disposed of onto the site.

- Vehicle loads are checked to ensure that no hazardous materials are brought onto general waste sites, and, when such materials brought onto sites permitted for disposal, they are sampled and laboratory tested to ensure full compliance.

- The daily deposition of waste is controlled according to a detailed plan that was formulated when the site was designed.

- Spotters direct vehicles to specific areas designated for that days disposal.

- At the end of each day these areas are compacted and covered to protect the environment. Management and staff continually ensure the safety of clients and visitors, and protect neighbouring areas from nuisance factors such as dust, flies, vermin and odours.

Interwaste is able to provide for all landfill design, landfill development and landfill construction needs.

Metals Recycling

Interwaste is active in the efficient collection and processing of all ferrous and non-ferrous metal wastes from depots across the country. Gold waste, platinum waste, chrome waste, manganese waste and coal waste can all be processed to extract valuable by- products.

A bin, or bins are placed at client’s premises at no charge.
When full the bins are uplifted to the nearest depot where the load is weighed at SABS approved weighbridge facilities.
Bins can be collected either on request or on a pre-arranged schedule.

Utilising supply from the formal and informal sectors the company in turn supplies bulk users in the local and export market.

The company maintains strict standards and controls to ensure that no stock entering its depots could have been sourced illegally.

Bio-Remediation

Bio-remediation is an effective in-situ method of decontaminating polluted land. Bio-remediation is brought about by a harnessing microbial metabolism to convert toxic hydrocarbons into their harmless components of CO₂and water. It is a particularly efficient means of detoxifying large tracts of hydrocarbon contaminated soils such as railways shunting yards and is a cost effective method of dealing with pollution problems in remote areas.

Interwaste can also offer services in the following areas:

- Slimes dam management

- Tailings management

- Commercial waste management and commercial waste disposal

- waste collection

- on site waste management

- septic tank

- construction toilets

- portable toilets

DustBoss

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Interwaste wastes no time to aid the residents of Nimrod Park

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Interwaste wastes no time to aid the residents of Nimrod Park

Resolution regarding the landfill situation in Nelspruit conferred

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Resolution regarding the landfill situation in Nelspruit conferred

Corporate Social Investment

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Rewards for waste:

Interwaste’s “Rewards for Waste,” initiative aims to give back to underprivileged schools through collecting recyclable waste in return for rewards. Launched at the SathyaSai School situated in Lenasia South on 22 July 2011, the programme will be rolled out to the rest of Gauteng in stages.

EeZeeBins have been placed at the school by Interwaste who will reward the school with much needed food and stationery in exchange for recyclable waste material.

“Simply put, students, teachers and parents of the school can discard their dry waste in the EeZeeBin, without sorting, we will then collect, sort and weigh the waste accumulated, which earns the school points that will be traded for food or stationery, decided by the school,” explains Jason McNeil of Interwaste.

The school started with 37 students and gradually increased its numbers to 177 students and a staff of 13. It is made up of students of all races from underprivileged backgrounds. A nominal fee is charged to cover some of the costs. No profit is made but in keeping with the school’s aim of creating a sustainable future for tomorrow’s leaders it strongly believes in the maintenance and upkeep of our environment.

Interwaste also assists in the school’s vegetable patch by donating Earth2Earth products for their “Vegetable Patch Garden Day” that took place on 26 June 2011.

“We are very excited about this initiative, not only does it benefit our students with food and stationery but it also teaches valuable lessons about recycling, assisting step by step to preserve our earth,” says Headmistress Shirley Naggan.

For more information on the EeZeeBin contact Jason on jason@interwaste.co.za

Tops&Tags:

The tops that come from plastic bottles and the tags that are used to seal the plastic-coverings of loaves of bread are the new way to help those less fortunate than ourselves. For every 10 000 bread tags or plastic bottle tops collected by Interwaste, one registered charity will receive a wheel chair.

Corporate and individual participants are invited to join Interwaste in this initiative by giving back to an underprivileged project of their choice. They will not only be contributing to a sustainable environment but will also receive a Certification of Participation and will be acknowledged on the website.

“Our request is simple: when you buy a loaf of bread or a bottled beverage, please keep the tops and tags and give it to us, and we will not only recycle these items but also give back to a needy organisation,” says Jason Mc Neil of Interwaste.

There are various drop-off/ pick-up points where these recycled materials can be placed:

Richards Bay:	126 Alumina Allee, Alton, Richardsbay
Durban:	42 Brooklyn Road, Jacobs
Nelspruit:	10 Bosch Street, Nelspruit
Cape Town:	6 Montreal Drive, Airport Industria, Cape Town
Germiston	5 Brammer Street,Industries site, Germiston East

For more information on this initiative please contact Rajas Pillay on 011 792 9330 or rajas@interwaste.co.za

Interwaste collects the first 10,000 tops and tags!

Interwaste collected its first 10 000 tops and tags in aid of the “Tops & Tags” initiative that gives back to the community and assists in the preservation of the environment.

“In the spirit of giving, our pledge of a wheel chair goes to Hospice Soweto, which has an in-house facility of 26 beds and services for 200 out-patients daily within the Soweto Community,” says Rajas Pillay of Interwaste.

Hospice Soweto provides out-patient nursing, in-patient nursing, paediatric nursing care, social work, bereavement counselling and loans equipment such as wheel chairs to aid out-patients who cannot afford their own.

“We urge everyone to join in this initiative and make a difference to those less fortunate than ourselves,” says Rajas.

For more information on this initiative please contact Rajas Pillay on 011 792 9330 or rajas@interwaste.co.za

Click here to read more about the “Tops and Tags” campaign

Waste Collection

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The fundamental basis to all aspects of successful waste management lies in the efficiency of the handling methods employed. The high cost of transport dictates that the most appropriate system must be utilised if the most cost effective service is to be offered.

The company has the modern plant and equipment, depots and facilities, management, manpower and operational systems to ensure that its’ levels of efficiency and service in waste collection are unsurpassed in the local industry.

Interwaste will advise on the optimum waste storage and collection methods, the correct container sizes, service frequency and collection vehicles to be used to best suit individual as well as legal requirements. The company utilises skip collection vehicles with bins up to 18m3, roll-on roll-off (Ro-Ro) vehicles with bin capacities up to 35m³ and efficient Front End and Rear End Loader vehicles capable of compacting the waste on-board. Many types of trailed containers are also available to maximise transport efficiencies through optimal carrying capacity.

Generators of high volume, low mass waste can utilise on-site compactors to reduce the volume of those materials, resulting in substantial savings on transport costs.

Much of the companys’ equipment is custom designed to handle the diverse requirements of its’ industrial and commercial clients. Whether it is a specialised holding tank for toxic hydrocarbon waste or a specially shaped ‘half skip’ for use on-board commercial shipping vessels, the company ensures that the most efficient methodology is utilised at all times.

All Interwaste vehicles are linked to the company C-Track vehicle monitoring system enhancing efficiency and security. The satellite-based system allows for the continual real-time monitoring of a wide range of information from every vehicle in operation. The location and performance of each vehicle and its’ load is automatically recorded for the benefit of the company and of the customer. Any deviation from a range of preset parameters triggers an alarm situation allowing for an immediate response. All gathered data is stored and can be recalled in any number of different historical formats.

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Carbon Calculator

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Contaminated Land Rehabilitation

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Recent legislation calls for the development of a register of any contaminated land. Once identified as contaminated no person may transfer its ownership without notifying the prospective buyer and, in the case of a remediation site, without notifying the authorities and complying with any specified conditions.This places the onus on land owners to ensure that land owned by them is not considered contaminated. The law is retrospective and has no period of prescription, implying that even if the ownership of land is transferred the legal and financial liability of any contamination and/or necessary remediation remains with the original owner and cannot easily be transferred. The authorities may still veto any sale agreement if deemed necessary for the protection of the environment and/or if any conditions stipulated in a remediation order have not been met.

New regulations detail the process to be followed for the remediation of contaminated land with an emphasis on reaching closure. Interwaste has been involved in the development of these regulations and are intimate with the procedures that need to be followed in order to achieve a clean bill of health for any given premises.

Interwaste also has extensive experience in remediation technologies from basic excavate and remove strategies through to in-situ treatments such as bioremediation, phytoremediation, physico-chemical treatment, thermal processes etc. We develop the most environmentally sound, cost effective option to suit each site, which coupled with our thorough understanding of legislative requirements ensures an efficient turn-key solution to contaminated land issues.

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Waste Commodity Trading

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Interwaste has long perceived waste as a resource and have developed the process of the commoditisation of waste.

We have pioneered this process with our clients across all industry sectors. The successful commoditisation of waste often requires external catalysts unrelated to the activities of the generator which can only be realised once identified.

The worlds’ resources are finite. The resources boom which came to a head in 2008 pre-empted peak demand for most commodities with their hyperinflated prices being a warning of things to come. Interwaste is developing strategic stockpiles of intrinsically valuable wastes with the express purpose of future recovery. Commodity cycles are closely monitored for each residue and will be unlocked when all necessary factors converge synchronously. Instead of traditional landfill disposal our services include long term storage of potentially valuable wastes in specially designed containment cells for future reutilisation.

We have forged strategic relationships with major trading houses and have secured port and logistical capacity to ensure that we are well placed to offer a turn-key solution to our clients. We currently export commoditised wastes into 12 countries and territories outside of South Africa and are expanding our horizons expotentially.

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Research & Development

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Our Reutilisation Research and Development Department has been actively involved with government in the development of current and impending environmental legislation. Our intimate knowledge of legislative requirements enables Interwaste to tailor-make solutions which are not only environmentally but legislatively sound.Since the Department of Water Affairs published the Minimum Requirements documents, second edition 1998, which made “delisting” of hazardous wastes possible within the legal framework, Interwaste has been at the forefront of waste classification and the treatment of hazardous wastes to reduce their intrinsic hazard. Interwaste has successfully delisted more waste streams than all of the other waste management service providers combined. This has resulted in our clients saving hundreds of millions of rands as a result of our highly developed treatment techniques coupled with our intimate knowledge of the legislative process and requirements for delisting.

The new waste classification regulations, due to be published in February 2011, will put an end to formal delistings and will focus on waste classification in terms of hazard and waste management options as two separate determinations. Interwaste has developed systems which anticipate these changes and will make it possible for us to classify our clients’ wastes giving the best available management options as a deliverable. We embrace the pending changes and see massive opportunity for both our clients, ourselves and the environment.