Expert Guidance

We assist communities in building or improving their infrastructure  & operations to more effectively manage household hazardous waste (HHW) and very small quantity generator (VSQG) waste.
Founded by one of the nation's leading experts, David Nightingale CHMM, who has performed site visits at 150+ HHW collection facilities in the United States and Canada.
This breadth of exposure provides an exceptional basis for assisting clients in meeting their unique HHW and VSQG management needs.
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What We Do

Consulting

Services include:

Training

From HHW collection facility design workshops to HAZWOPER courses we provide top-tier training. To meet your unique training needs we combine nationally-recognized curriculum and instructors with customized course delivery.

Publications

A Comprehensive HHW Collection Facility Design Guide  with valuable insights and real-world examples for designers, project managers, and HHW professionals.
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How We Work

From visiting 155 HHW collection facilities in 27 states we are uniquely qualified to assist you in developing or improving your HHW and VSQG collection infrastructure and operations. This starts by understanding your project context including program goals and policy drivers. Given your project context Special Waste Associates (SWA) provides a focused set of services ranging from assisting in finding a suitable site for an HHW collection facility, to offering assistance from pre-design programming through  review of final design plans and specifications., 
Special Waste Assocaites
Special Waste Associates serves clients across North America
We typically work under contract directly for the program sponsor as your expert advocate before the design process starts. This pre-design discovery helps you refine and set the appropriate expectations and context for the design process. Our experience with many local building officials and design teams provide confidence in moving projects forward.  We facilitate clearer project focus and direction to optimize facility design features for safe and efficient operations.

In addition to HHW collection infrastructure consulting, SWA is also a leading firm in providing HHW collection system evaluation and analysis, health and safety training, and publisher of professional reference materials.

Each of our clients bring a unique set of constraints, talents, resources, and program objectives to their projects. To most effectively execute each project requires complete project awareness and flexibility to best match our services with your project needs. Consequently, we provide differing levels of effort and, if needed, additional specialists to serve the specific and unique needs of your project.
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Carbon on the Move

Two videos showing massive movement of Coal and Oil trains heading north through Western Washington.  Likely Bakken Formation Oil to refineries in NW WA.  Likely Coal to be shipped from British Columbia to China to burn.