Our History
Remedy Environmental Services was created with the premise that many industrial materials can be reclaimed and recycled instead of being discarded. The beneficial use of waste materials has led Remedy to develop markets for materials formally considered hazardous if land filled or discarded. Remedy's goal is to find a second life for these wastes as substitutes for raw ingredients or as ingredients themselves in manufacturing processes.
The Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) is mandated by State law to encourage recycling and re-use of materials. Listed in California Health and Safety Code section 25143.2 are regulations that change the classification of hazardous wastes so they can be managed as hazardous materials if properly handled and recycled. Remedy has focused on recycling and reclaiming a variety of materials but mainly focuses on oily water and some metal powders. Our recycling program has been inspected many times by Anaheim Fire (CUPA), Orange County Department of Health Services and State officials.
A big change to the recycling law occurred on January 1, 2002 whereby California regulated industrial wastewater could no longer be managed as excluded recyclable material if the water had more than 75 parts per million of oil (0.0075%). The State of California benefitted from Remedy's program by allowing us to use "gray" water in place of municipally treated drinking water for industrial use. As a point of information, this change was not by direction of the DTSC but by a Congressman who organized a steering committee of hazardous waste facilities that appeared to have no regard for the consumer or recycling but wanted stricter limits on what was considered recyclable so as to increase business.
Remedy wishes to reactivate our program. Our customers, who include many fortune 500 companies as well as many municipalities, have asked us to revive the program as well. Our clients are very interested in Remedy processing water for re-use. It was safe, it offered conservation, it was inexpensive and it was the best way to recycle for these companies. It was also beneficial to local and state governments by sparing millions of gallons of drinking water to be used for growth and recreation as opposed to wasted on industrial use. But without a change in the law there is little we can do.
Remedy Environmental Services is in the process of obtaining a permit from the DTSC to operate a non-RCRA water reclamation facility. Our facility would process and reclaim water just as before, but now, all non-RCRA water must be manifested as a waste without receiving the exclusion. All other parts of the operation would be as before, no odors, no community complaints, 100% compliance and frequent inspections and audits.