Solid, Hazardous, and Mixed Waste Management


The GEM approach to hazardous materials management incorporates elements of both engineering and business management.  This combination is seldom found in the typical approach to addressing environmental issues. Our collective knowledge of applicable regulations, available and emerging technologies, and cost-awareness provides our clients with project-specific, cost-effective hazardous waste management programs. The basis of our approach is to reduce the costs of operating a facility through the use of material substitution, process modifications, waste treatment, and innovative approaches to facility operations and maintenance.  Our approach results in the reduced generation and disposal of hazardous wastes.  It also reduces the potential liability of the facility and the likelihood of operations being curtailed by hazardous waste disposal problems.

GEM provides plant waste minimization audits, engineering solutions to implement minimization actions, industrial hygiene services, and waste management program development.  We utilize data management systems to provide complete hazardous waste generation and management tracking, compliance management tracking, and wastes minimization program status and impacts.  Our systems are suited for operations with multiple locations or for complex single-site facilities.

Our waste management programs ensure profitability while safeguarding public and environmental health with timely and cost-effective processes. GEM facilitates and streamlines the waste management process by working closely with clients, regulatory agencies, and the public. This process integrates the following key capabilities: waste inventories and characterization, waste storage management, Recovery Resource Conservation Act (RCRA) support and permitting, management policies, mixed waste management, asbestos/lead-based paint management, and low level radioactive materials management.

GEM solid, hazardous and mixed waste management capabilities include: