A Focus on Trade Waste Services
Both environmental laboratories opened in Auckland and Christchurch during 2016 are seeing a number of enquiries relating to Trade Waste testing. Eurofins offers a full sampling analysis service in both cities and can assist customers with their Trade Waste requirements.
Trade Waste is wastewater from trade or industrial processes such as manufacturing plants and factories that is discharged into the public sewer.
Many cities around New Zealand have an active Trade Waste monitoring programme driven by the local city council. These programmes require companies to take regular samples from their discharge and to get it tested by an IANZ accredited laboratory.
The purpose of the testing is threefold.
To protect the sewage network. Larger cities in New Zealand can have networks of over 1,000km so the cost of installation and maintenance can be huge. Some types of Trade Waste can damage this network leading to expensive repairs. Often the damage is caused away from the discharge point, which can be difficult to detect.
Some Trade Wastes can chemically react within the network leading to the production of poisonous chemicals and gasses.
To protect the sewage treatment process. Sewage Treatment plants are very sensitive to the type of waste they treat and can be upset by large flows of unusual composition. In a normal network it is the Trade Waste component that has the greatest potential to cause damage to a treatment system.
To protect our environment. By maintaining the treatment plant in good working condition councils ensure the environment around the sewage outfall and at the landfill is protected.
By offering customers a sampling and testing service in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, Eurofins-ELS provides Trade Waste customers a fully independent analysis of samples.
For further information click here or contact us on:
TradeWasteNZ@eurofins.com
