Disposal Of Industrial Waste

Indicative Waste  Streams

  • * Contaminated soil
  • * Metallurgical ashes
  • * Oily sludge
  • * Out of specifications fuels, greases, non-recyclable oils
  • * Drill Cutting
  • * Emulsions, oil-water mixtures
  • * Out of specs pharmaceutical and veterinary products
  • * Contaminated packaging materials
  • * Paint sludge, ink sludge
  • * Contaminated absorbing and filtering materials
  • * Out of specs chemicals
  • * Laboratory waste, Halon cylinders, Asbestos waste, Medical waste and Radioactive waste
  • * WEEE, accumulators, batteries and fluorescent lamps
  • * Spent activated carbon
  • * Spent catalysts

 

Indicative Disposal Method

Depends on the type of waste and the level of contamination

  1. Incineration
  2. Solidification
  3. Physicochemical treatment
  4. Engineered landfill
  5. Recycling
  6. Remediation
  7. Recovery
  • * For the Disposal Methods 1, 2, 3 and 4 the waste will be exported through the Basel Convention
  • * The Disposal Methods 5, 6, and 7 can be performed m Oman (eg: remediation of oily contaminated soils)