Sterling Environmental Solutions provides waste treatment for liquid industrial waste solvents, including hazardous solvents.
We have been successfully treating third-party industrial waste, alongside pharmaceutical waste from our sister company, Sterling Pharma Solutions, manufacturing processes for over 30 years. We continue to invest in our facility to meet the needs of our customers and ensure we can provide the most innovative waste treatment solutions. Most recently we have invested in the construction of a liquid anaerobic plant to treat a wider range of waste types more sustainably.
Our waste treatment facilities comprise of two plants; an aerobic plant and an anaerobic plant which provide a sustainable alternative to incineration and other disposal techniques.
We can accept over 300 European Waste Catalogue (EWC) codes, which support the treatment of waste from a broad range of businesses. This minimises their environmental burden and offers a cost-effective waste treatment solution.
Waste treated in our aerobic plant is given a D08 waste disposal code, whilst waste treated in our anaerobic plant is provided with an R03 waste recovery code.
Waste acceptance testing is conducted in our on-site waste analysis laboratory on all waste streams. This helps us to determine which of our waste treatment plants it is suitable for and ensures that all regulatory compliance requirements are met.
Waste treated in our anaerobic digestion (AD) plant uses anaerobic bacteria to break down waste into biogas, and is the first of its kind in the UK, outperforming conventional solid ADs.
95-97% of the organic waste our anaerobic digestion plant treats is converted into biomethane, with the resulting biogas produced containing ~75% high quality methane. This is then further purified and prepared, before injection into the National Gas Grid as a sustainable energy source.
Each year our anaerobic plant produces enough energy to power the equivalent of 4,500 homes from the waste we treat belonging to organisations from across the UK, supporting our customers’ sustainability targets.
