Trade Waste Management
Trade waste compliance, authority approvals and ongoing management for industrial businesses discharging to sewer.
Trade Waste Compliance Made Simple
Any business that discharges industrial wastewater to the sewerage system is a trade waste discharger. Trade waste contains substances — oils, chemicals, heavy metals, food waste, cleaning agents and more — that can damage infrastructure, interfere with treatment processes and cause environmental harm if not properly managed.
Trade waste dischargers must hold a current trade waste agreement or approval from their water authority, meet the conditions set in that approval, and maintain the pre-treatment devices specified. Merton Environmental helps you navigate these requirements efficiently.
Our Trade Waste Services
🧪
Wastewater Characterisation
Sampling and analysis of your trade waste discharge to determine its composition — pH, COD, BOD, suspended solids, oils and greases, heavy metals and other parameters relevant to your water authority’s acceptance criteria.
📜
Authority Approval Applications
Preparation and submission of trade waste agreement applications to your water authority — including wastewater characterisation data, pre-treatment descriptions, site plans and supporting documentation.
🔧
Pre-Treatment Assessment
Assessment of your existing pre-treatment equipment — grease traps, separator tanks, neutralisation systems, pH correction and chemical dosing — to ensure they are correctly sized, maintained and compliant with your approval conditions.
📋
Management Plans
Development of site-specific Trade Waste Management Plans — describing your processes, waste streams, pre-treatment measures, monitoring procedures and emergency response protocols in the format required by water authorities.
📊
Compliance Monitoring
Ongoing sampling and analysis programs to verify your discharge meets approval conditions — providing the data you need to demonstrate compliance and identify any deterioration in pre-treatment performance before it becomes an issue.
🗣️
Authority Liaison
Representing your business in dealings with your water authority — responding to queries, negotiating approval conditions, managing non-compliance notices and facilitating inspections with a calm, professional and technically informed approach.
Need Trade Waste Support?
Whether you need an approval application, a management plan or ongoing compliance monitoring — we can help.