Hazardous Waste Packaging, Transportation, Disposal
Hazardous waste packaging, transportation, and brokerage of hazardous waste for disposal remain the backbone of Unitek operations. All Unitek consultants and HAZMAT technicians have undergone 40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations training with an annual 8-Hour refresher course as well as Forklift Operations, DOT HAZMAT Transportation, and Confined Space Entry training. Selected employees have also undergone 8-Hour HAZWOPER Supervisor training, AHERA Asbestos training, and Ammonia Emergency Response.
The hazardous waste comes in many forms; solids, liquids, corrosives, flammables, toxics, reactives, bulk, and non-bulk. Unitek maintains Guam’s most extensive stock of UN- rated DOT-approved containers for packaging of wastes including steel and polyethylene drums ranging in size from 5-gallons to 95-gallons. Unitek also maintains all personnel protection equipment necessary for repackaging activities from Level A to Level D as well as pumps, hoses, bulk loading hoppers, and field-constructed secondary containment areas.
Unitek’s staff has performed waste identification, repackaging, profiling, DOT classification, manifesting, and placarding for all types of waste generated in the Pacific including radioactive wastes. Our relationship with ocean and highway transporters as well as various disposal sites enables us to provide our clients with cost-effective solutions for PCB and hazardous waste disposal at EPA-approved disposal facilities. Final disposal of each waste is confirmed with a certificate of disposal.
Emergency Spill Response
Unitek’s experience with environmental emergency response is the most extensive of any firm within the Western Pacific. Unitek has responded to releases of hazardous materials and petroleum on both land and sea. Unitek specializes in emergency response to hazardous chemicals, gases, materials, and petroleum releases. Unitek serves as the primary responder for environmental emergency response activities for USEPA Region IX, US Coast Guard, and over 100 private sector clients. Unitek has performed entry into seavans with leaking acids, bases, fuels, petroleum, solvents, ammonia, and chlorine gas.
Unitek maintains the most complete inventory of equipment materials and supplies for environmental emergency response activities including personnel protection equipment including Levels A, B, C, and D. Unitek's in-house fleet of response equipment includes vacuum trucks, tanker trailers, vessels, spill containment and absorbent boom, and surface water oil skimmers. Unitek also maintains a complete inventory of environmental equipment including pumps and air monitoring equipment.
Unitek personnel are trained in proper procedures for sample collection, chain-of-custody, field hazcat screening, and ICS. Unitek can provide monitoring for various chemical and radiological releases. Unitek also maintains sample containers, activated carbon, spill containment, absorbent pads, booms, powder, and acid or base neutralizing agents. Unitek maintains a U.S. Coast Guard-approved Spill Response Plan with over 20 trained HAZMAT responders.