A Food & Beverage Packaging Company

The Challenge

This packaging company was discarding several thousands of tons of filtercake from their waste water treatment processes at each of their beverage can production facilities. For years (at most of their facilities) this material was discarded in a landfill. This company was looking for better methods to help minimize their waste disposal volumes, including achieving zero landfill status in as many facilities as possible.

• Better Visibility

  Heritage provided visibility to the opportunities being lost at these facilities by offering accurate insights into the best ways to improve the company’s byproduct management process.

• Better Solutions

  Since Heritage stepped in and began creating a customized waste improvement plan, this company has prevented 6,700 tons of filtercake from ending up in a landfill. Heritage has also maintained their status as this company’s sole byproduct management consultant for more than 11 years.

• Proven Impact

  Partnering with Heritage raised this company’s status to one of the most sustainable in the food & beverage packaging industry in all of North America. Heritage has also succeeded in transforming a total of 15 of their facilities into zero landfill operations.

An American Auto Parts Retailer

The Challenge

A geographically dispersed 5,300+ auto parts retailer was looking to drive environmental adherence and compliance. Heritage sought to create a waste management process that was simple to maintain, yet extremely effective.

• Better Visibilty

  Helped retailer roll out one seamless waste management plan, ensured correct training measures in place, and offered complete document transparency for compliance and audits.

• Better Solutions

  Customized waste management process, simplistic enough to run autonomously yet responsive to one-off situations, and initiated a national “milk run” program.

• Proven Impact

  From better tracking to custom solutions, Heritage helped this retailer safely dispose of waste that’s unable to be reused or repurposed

A French Multinational Pharmaceutical Company

The Challenge

A pharma distributor was struggling to find better solutions to their waste stream that also fit within the strict limitations placed upon them by the city. They turned to Heritage to help find solutions to the large amount of contaminated material they’d been discarding every year.

• Better Visibility

  Employee education in recycling and waste management, proper labeling and waste identification, more accurate reporting, and streamlined waste management.

• Better Solutions

  Better waste segregation reduced 162 tons of waste annually, created better visibility into waste labeling, and more accurate reporting and better understanding of materials helped drastically improve recycling process.

• Proven Impact

  Recycling improved by over 200%, while reducing spend 50%. Heritage continues to evaluate and monitor the site’s needs and waste data to ensure the right solutions are provided and company goals are met

A Nationwide Passenger Airline

The Challenge

To help a leading airline solve their waste management problems. The airline needed a partner with a superior emergency response service and that could provide the same high level of service regardless of facility size or location.

• Better Visibility

  Streamlined communication across 100 sites to uncover improvement areas, transparent records and documentation to help track waste, and RCRA/DOT training.

• Better Solutions

  Positioned one single point of contact across all locations. Customized solutions to waste challenges including one-on-one regulatory compliance services and Environmental Assistance Program

• Proven Impact

  Significantly improved waste transportation and disposal, Improved compliance, and Improved sustainability.

A Global Oil & Gas Company

The Challenge

For decades, a large U.S. oil and gas company had successfully managed its waste, but a regulatory change meant a big shakeup, as a part of their waste stream was no longer allowed to be put into a landfill.

• Better Visibility

  Heritage leveraged our deep expertise with an all-hands approach. With regulatory deadlines looming, we gained deep insight into the problem while limiting the research phase.

• Better Solutions

  Heritage Research Group devised an out-of-the-box solution. Seeing how the entire market was responding to the new regulations, we designed an asset that could be fully built, paid for, and operated by Heritage, not the customer. The project would create new jobs to manage it, and Heritage – with its expertise and compliance record – would ensure it met the new standards.

• Proven Impact

  That system, built nearly 30 years ago, still operates today, fully compliant. Best of all, the customer was able to keep the capital expense off the balance sheet and rely on Heritage for the right solution that just keeps going.

A Fortune 100 Company

The Challenge

Our client had a Superfund site with significant PCB contamination and some spots within the excavation area that also indicated the potential for RCRA hazardous soil.

• Better Visibility

  Community required the trucks to take a specific route to avoid local congestion. Heritage supplied our own drivers and each truck drove an additional 5 miles per trip in order to comply with the approved route

• Better Solutions

  Located and rehabbed a rail yard 15 miles away from the project site to load intermodal containers onto railcars, collaborated on a sampling plan, and client resampled potential RCRA/TSCA soil and confirmed it didn’t exhibit RCRA characteristics and could be more affordably managed.

• Proven Impact

  Logistical solutions and efficient rail strategy, rail shipping reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 50+%, constant communication with client and remedial contractor, and had this 18-month project completed in just over 14 months.