Bespoke solutions for effective product and waste management, characterisation and classification.
The transition to a circular economy demands improvements in processes, resource efficiency and our ability to recover value from waste resources. WRc’s waste doctors help manufacturers, waste producers and trade bodies across multiple industrial sectors achieve sustainability goals and ensure regulatory compliance.
Our waste management services include resource recovery supported by waste characterisation, hazardous property and environmental risk assessment, testing in our in-house laboratories and consultancy.
We highlight ‘problem’ parameters which may compromise zero waste to landfill and other resource recovery goals.
We undertake specialist testing (e.g., X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), selective chemical extraction, geochemical and thermodynamic modelling, and weight of evidence reviews of chemical classifications). These can be used to obtain a more favourable outcome than face-value comparisons of worst case compounds against hazardous property concentration limits.
Using bespoke approaches and novel test methods that uniquely position us between routine laboratories and universities, we help clients understand the characteristics, and optimise the value, of their waste. As an independent trusted advisor to industry, our verified solutions have credibility with the regulators.
Technical Director (Waste & Resources)
Jane has extensive experience in technical consultancy relating to sampling plan design to provide representative samples and test data to inform waste characterisation, waste minimisation, waste recycling and resource efficiency studies. She has undertaken technical waste projects for a wide spectrum of environmental regulators, industrial waste producers, waste management companies and their trade bodies all aimed at providing robust and accurate evidence to support policy and business decisions. Jane is also heavily involved in the design and completion of environmental impact and risk assessments for the recycling of wastes to land.
