Waste Management
Waste handled right
Disposal, onsite treatment, recycling, and recovery solutions that protect your compliance — and your bottom line.
We take waste off your hands — and off your mind.
Hazardous waste rules. Manifests. Profiles. Permits. One mistake can mean fines, liability, or worse. And managing multiple vendors for different waste streams? That’s a job in itself.
You need a partner who can handle all of it. Efficiently, compliantly, and cost-effectively.
One call. All your waste handled.
We manage your entire waste stream lifecycle, from generation to disposal. Hazardous, non-hazardous, recycling, recovery — we coordinate it all. You get proper documentation, cost savings from consolidated runs, and peace of mind knowing everything is handled right.
OUR STORY
Approach
Most waste companies start with disposal. We start further upstream, looking at what you’re buying, how you’re using it, and whether the waste you’re generating is even necessary.
This isn’t just good for the environment. It’s good for your budget. When waste gets reclassified from hazardous to non-hazardous after proper testing, disposal costs drop significantly. When recyclable materials get pulled from your waste stream, you stop paying to throw away value.
We have compliance expertise that most waste vendors don’t. That’s what makes us different.
Minimize
Reduce the volume and toxicity of waste your operation generates in the first place
Reclassify
Test and properly characterize waste streams that may qualify for less costly (or non-hazardous) disposal categories
Manage
Find the most cost-effective disposal, recycling, or recovery option for what remains
Services
Hazardous Waste Disposal
Proper characterization, profiling, manifesting, and disposal of hazardous waste in full compliance with RCRA and state regulations. We coordinate with licensed Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs) to find the best fit for your waste streams — not just the closest option.
Non-Hazardous Industrial Waste
Not all industrial waste is hazardous, but it still requires proper handling and documentation. In Tennessee, it even requires a special waste permit. We manage non-hazardous industrial waste disposal, including special waste, universal waste, and bulk materials from facility operations.
Lab Pack Services
For facilities with small quantities of diverse chemicals — labs, R&D departments, maintenance shops — lab packing consolidates multiple small containers into a single coordinated disposal event. Proper identification, compatible grouping, packaging, and documentation, handled by people who know the regulations.
Solvent Recovery and Recycling
Used solvents don’t always need to be incinerated. We identify solvent waste streams that can be reclaimed through mobile distillation at your site (for runs of 1,000+ gallons), reducing both disposal volume and your cost for virgin solvent. You get cleaned solvent back for reuse.
Oil Recovery
Used oil, oily water, and oil-contaminated materials often qualify for recovery rather than disposal. We coordinate collection and processing through licensed facilities. Clients regularly find the recycled oil performs as well as — or better than — virgin product.
Industrial Recycling
Metals, plastics, electronics, batteries, fluorescent lamps, transformers, IBC totes, and drums may all have recycling value or require specialty handling. We evaluate your waste streams and connect you with the right outlets — turning disposal costs into savings where possible.
Facility Clean-Outs
Closing a facility, cleaning out a warehouse, or inheriting a site with unknown or legacy materials? AER manages full-facility clean-outs from start to finish: identification, characterization, packaging, transportation, and disposal. We’ve handled everything from labeled chemical drums to mystery containers from the early 20th century.
How AER is different from a waste broker
Waste brokers find you a disposal facility and take a cut. It gets the waste off your property — but it doesn’t reduce your costs or your liability over time.
AER approaches waste differently. We start upstream: minimizing what you generate, properly characterizing and reclassifying waste streams, and then coordinating the most cost-effective option for what remains. We manage manifests, communicate with TSDFs, and handle the documentation so your compliance records are clean.
The difference shows up in your disposal costs, your compliance record, and your CEO’s sustainability report.
Frequently asked questions
A broker connects you with a disposal facility. AER starts upstream — minimizing your waste volume, reclassifying streams that could be qualified as non-hazardous through exemptions or refined sampling practices, and then finding the best disposal, recycling, or recovery option for what remains. We manage the cradle-to-grave process with you.
Yes. We manage all types of RCRA-regulated wastes. To include: hazardous waste under RCRA, non-hazardous industrial waste, universal waste (batteries, lamps, mercury devices), electronics, used oil, and spent solvents. We do not manage radioactive, but we have partners we can put you in touch with. Give us a call, and we would be happy to get you linked up with someone who can help you. Even if it is not with us!
Many waste streams are over-classified. A material labeled “hazardous” based on an assumption rather than testing may actually qualify as non-hazardous after proper characterization. Non-hazardous disposal costs are significantly less. AER tests, documents, and reclassifies waste streams to the appropriate — and often less costly — category.
Yes. We provide fast-response clean-out services for spills, incidents, and facility closings. Contact us directly for time-sensitive situations.
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Tell us what you’re dealing with. We’ll take a look and give you a straight answer on where things stand and what makes sense next.