ACTIVITIES AND PROCESS

HWE members run a wide range of processes for recycling, recovery and disposal of hazardous waste:

→ Regeneration of solvents, mineral oils, chromic baths, fuels

→ Water recycling

→ Recovery of metals by pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes

→ Recovery of other materials (soils, plastics, scrap metals, …)

→ Energy recovery

→ Physico-chemical treatments

→ Biological treatments

→ Incineration – evapo-incineration – evapo-concentration

→ Management and treatment of PCBs

→ Landfill

HWE members are present throughout the entire hazardous waste treatment chain. Thus, after collecting the waste, they characterise it in order to provide the most appropriate treatment for the protection of the environment and health. Two solutions are therefore envisaged : 

→ if it is technically and economically feasible to decontaminate the hazardous waste, then it is recycled and the extracted hazardous substances are disposed of in accordance with environmental regulations

→ if it is not technically and economically feasible to decontaminate the hazardous waste, then it is disposed of entirely, in order to prevent the release of the hazardous substances it contains into the environment or into the recycled products.