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Walking-floor semi-trailer unloading fine waste onto a plant yard
Walking-floor unloading, EER 19 05 03

Services for waste and secondary raw materials

We send waste for disposal or recovery, arrange transport by road and sea and the rental of roll-off containers and compactors, carry out turnkey clearances and trade in secondary raw materials (SRM). You can come to us for a single service or for several together.

Where we send waste

We arrange the transport of waste and send it to the right plant: for disposal or for recovery, including energy recovery.

For each destination you will find the code of its operation: D stands for disposal, R for recovery.

Heap of dark fine waste in front of a concrete block wall under a blue sky
EER 19 05 03 in a heap

  • D1 D5: Disposal in landfill

    In landfills in Italy, for mainly non-hazardous waste.

  • R1: Energy recovery in waste-to-energy plants

    Mainly in Northern Europe, for non-hazardous waste: they produce electricity and heat.

  • R3 R12 R13: Treatment and upgrading in plants

    In Italy and in the partner countries, to get more value out of the waste. Some plants mix the waste with other waste to produce SRF (solid recovered fuel), which replaces fossil fuels such as coal and petcoke.

  • MBT (mechanical biological treatment) plants

    A dry and a wet fraction leave their flow, the wet one stabilised in biocells: we collect both and arrange their transport to landfill or to energy recovery.

Transport by road and sea

We arrange transport, mainly by road and by sea, all the way to the destination plants in Italy and abroad.

  • By road

    We arrange transport with the right vehicle for each load:

    • Hook-lift trucks with a grab crane
    • Hook-lift truck-and-trailer combinations
    • Curtain-sided articulated trucks
    • Tipper articulated trucks
    • Watertight tipper bodies
    • Walking-floor semi-trailers

  • By sea

    from 3,000 to 5,500 tonnes per full ship

    On full ships or in containers, always by sea.

Shipments abroad

We handle the notification for waste shipments abroad ourselves: from obtaining the financial guarantees and preparing the whole notification dossier to securing consent for the transboundary shipment. And, of course, their transport and destination.

A ship's hold full of white film-wrapped waste bales, seen from above on the quay
Bales in a ship's hold
Loading bales at the port Silent video, 20 seconds
A port crane lifting film-wrapped bales, wrapped in white polyethylene film, with a yellow frame beside a ship
Film-wrapped bales loaded onto the ship
Inside a container: the floor lined with a green sheet, two film-wrapped bales at the far end
Loading a container
Bales under blue and green tarpaulins on a port quay, next to a crane
Bales on the quay, ready to be shipped

Rental of roll-off containers and compactors

  • Roll-off containers and compactors

    We arrange their rental for you, to collect material at your premises.

  • Placement

    We arrange for the roll-off container or compactor you hire to be put in place, also using a hook-lift truck with a grab crane.

  • Loading operations

    We also arrange loading operations with grab-crane hook-lift trucks.

Blue roll-off container being loaded onto a truck on a hillside road
Roll-off container during a clearance
Blue roll-off compactor with its loading opening behind a grille and its control panel, on a white background
Roll-off compactor (illustrative photo)

E-mail us to hire a roll-off container or a compactor

Turnkey clearances

Need to empty a warehouse? We take care of it, turnkey: not just the transport and disposal, or the transport and recovery, but the whole job.

We go into the industrial unit or warehouse and sort the materials right there: WEEE on one side, paints on another, then wood, iron, plasterboard, concrete. That way every material gains value and you save money. Then we load everything onto roll-off containers and send it for recovery or disposal.

See two of our clearances, before and after

A clearance: we sort the materials on site Silent video, 19 seconds

  1. We arrive with our staff

    We come on site with our workers, for example to the warehouse you need to empty.

  2. We sort the waste by type

    Wood with wood, paper with paper, paint with paint, and the same for every type.

  3. We make separate piles

    One pile for each type of waste.

  4. We load the vehicles

    Once the waste has been sorted, we do the loading ourselves.

  5. We take everything to the plants

    Recovery or disposal plants, depending on the material.

Two clearances, before and after

Two clearances we carried out, filmed and photographed on site: how the premises looked before and during the work, and how we left them.

A shop, all on one floor

One large hall full of shelving, paint tins, boxes, bags and mixed materials. We sorted everything on site, loaded the containers and left the hall empty, from the back wall to the shop windows.

The shop's hall before the clearance, towards the back wall Before The same hall after the clearance: empty and clean After
The same spot in the hall, before and after Drag the yellow line
Before

Silent videos, filmed while we worked. The sorting had already begun: at first everything was piled up and mixed.

Watch the video (MP4, 1.8 MB)
Watch the video (MP4, 1.9 MB)
Watch the video (MP4, 1.8 MB)
The shop's hall before the clearance: bags, boxes and materials piled up along the wall A heap of cardboard, bags and packaging in the shop before the clearance
After

The hall, empty and clean.

The shop's hall after the clearance: empty from the back wall to the windows
A corner of the shop after the clearance: a bare floor and bare walls

A warehouse on two floors

Two floors linked by a staircase, with long rows of shelving: boxes, furniture, equipment and materials everywhere, on the floor too. We cleared both floors, leaving empty shelves and clear floors.

An aisle of the warehouse before the clearance, with the shelves full of boxes (still from the video) Before An aisle of the warehouse after the clearance: empty shelves and a clean floor After
Between the shelves, before and after
Before

Silent videos: how it looked when we arrived and while we worked.

Watch the video (MP4, 2.0 MB)
Watch the video (MP4, 2.0 MB)
Watch the video (MP4, 1.8 MB)
Loaded racking and the stairs between the warehouse's two floors before the clearance (still from the video)
After

Empty shelves and clear floors, upstairs and down. The video is silent.

Watch the video (MP4, 1.5 MB)
The ground-floor shelving after the clearance, empty and clean
A room in the warehouse after the clearance: empty, with a clean tiled floor
The upper floor of the warehouse after the clearance: a clear wooden floor and empty shelving

What we separate on site

  • Wood
  • Paper
  • Paints / catalysts / solvents
  • WEEE
  • Iron
  • Plasterboard
  • Concrete and inert waste
  • Plastic
  • Textiles
  • Mixed packaging
  • Bulky waste

WEEE is waste electrical and electronic equipment: televisions, computer mice, mobile phones, printers, hairdryers, microwaves, fridges, freezers, ovens and the like.

We separate paints by type (water-based, solvent-based, catalysts), then pack and film-wrap them ready for loading.

Why separating pays off

The more mixed waste is, the more it costs to dispose of and the more it pollutes. By separating it on site:

  • You save on disposal
  • Every material is recovered better
  • There is less pollution
Electric cables, computers and printers sorted during a clearance
WEEE sorted
Big bags full of plasterboard pieces, sorted during a clearance
Plasterboard, EER 17 08 02
Wooden panels and boards sorted and leaning against the wall
Wood sorted
Paint tins sorted on pallets
Paints sorted by type

E-mail us to request a clearance

Trade and consultancy

The commercial side of our work: secondary raw materials, and advice on finding your way in their market.

  • SRM transport and trade

    We buy and sell secondary raw materials, above all paper and cardboard, but also plastics, and arrange their transport: these are materials recovered from waste that go back into use to make new products.

    See the materials we handle

  • Commercial consultancy

    We support you in the commercial and environmental decisions that concern your waste and secondary raw materials.

Do you have materials to sell or buy? Write to us

Close-up of pressed cardboard bales tied with wire
Cardboard

Some of the EER codes we handle

Every type of waste is identified by a six-digit code from the European List of Waste, known in Italy as EER (Elenco europeo dei rifiuti). Here are some of the codes we handle, among many others. They are listed in ascending order with their official descriptions; an asterisk after a code marks hazardous waste.

In older documents you will find the abbreviation CER: that was the list's name before it became EER.

Chapter 03 Wood, pulp, paper and cardboard

03 03 07
Mechanically separated rejects from pulping of waste paper and cardboard

Chapter 08 Paints and varnishes

08 01 11
Waste paint and varnish containing organic solvents or other hazardous substances
Hazardous
08 01 12
Waste paint and varnish other than those mentioned in 08 01 11

Chapter 14 Organic solvents

14 06 02
Other halogenated solvents and solvent mixtures
Hazardous
14 06 03
Other solvents and solvent mixtures
Hazardous

Chapter 15 Packaging

15 01 01
Paper and cardboard packaging
15 01 02
Plastic packaging
15 01 03
Wooden packaging
15 01 06
Mixed packaging
15 01 07
Glass packaging

Chapter 16 End-of-life tyres and discarded equipment

16 01 03
End-of-life tyres
16 02 13
Discarded equipment containing hazardous components other than those mentioned in 16 02 09 to 16 02 12
Hazardous
16 02 14
Discarded equipment other than those mentioned in 16 02 09 to 16 02 13

Chapter 17 Construction and demolition

17 01 01
Concrete
17 01 02
Bricks
17 01 03
Tiles and ceramics
17 03 02
Bituminous mixtures other than those mentioned in 17 03 01
17 06 04
Insulation materials other than those mentioned in 17 06 01 and 17 06 03
17 08 02
Gypsum-based construction materials other than those mentioned in 17 08 01
17 09 04
Mixed construction and demolition wastes other than those mentioned in 17 09 01, 17 09 02 and 17 09 03

Chapter 19 Waste treatment facilities

19 05 01
Non-composted fraction of municipal and similar wastes
19 05 03
Off-specification compost
19 12 10
Combustible waste (refuse-derived fuel)
19 12 12
Other wastes (including mixtures of materials) from mechanical treatment of wastes other than those mentioned in 19 12 11

Chapter 20 Municipal waste

20 01 08
Biodegradable kitchen and canteen waste
20 03 03
Street-cleaning residues
20 03 07
Bulky waste

Paper, plastic and other materials

Besides the EER codes above, our work also covers these materials. Have a material you do not see on the list? Ask us by e-mail.

Paper 6 materials

  • Waste paper
  • Kraft
  • SBS
  • SWS
  • HWS
  • Tetra Pak

Plastic 8 materials

  • Rigid plastic material
  • PE
  • PET
  • HDPE
  • PP
  • PS
  • ABS
  • LDPE (film)

Other materials 5 materials

  • Wood
  • Inert material
  • Street sweepings
  • Sludge
  • Leachate

Do you have waste to place or secondary raw materials to sell or buy?

Tell us what the material is and, if you know it, its EER code, or which service you are looking for: our Lucca office will get back to you.

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