YPH selected as Sainsbury’s waste contractor
J Sainsbury has recently completed the extension and upgrade of its store in Sherborne, Dorset – a project that took six months to complete and involved demolition, new build and...
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Aircraft parts destruction
An aircraft manufacturer requested us to dispose of various aircraft parts (pictured) in such a manner to ensure they could never be re-used for aviation purposes.  They were loaded into a...
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Heavy metal contamination clean-up
We received a call from an engineering company who described to us a fume extraction unit over chemical baths in a workshop (top picture) that had ceased working efficiently.   We visited...
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Filter Cake waste
An electronics company contacted YPH initially to ascertain whether their filter cake waste was hazardous or not. We took a sample and subjected this to a Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC)...
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15 loads of Wax
We received an unusual call from a customer seeking to sell his site for re-development and looking to dispose of around 200 tonnes of wax within a building on it....
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Acids, alkalis & flammables
This job involved removal of the drums pictured, which contained mixed Hazardous wastes including acids, alkalis, oxidizers & flammable liquids in 205 litre drums and IBCs (Intermediate Bulk Containers). These...
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Hazardous investigation & disposal
A client in the aerospace and defence sector, who had a variety of old hazardous wastes from several production processes, requested YPH to undertake a comprehensive investigation to initially determine...
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Oils and chemicals found on brownfield site
YPH Waste was contacted by a local developer who had concerns over ground contamination having found some drums in undergrowth on their site. Re-development work was stopped temporarily, with the...
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Demolition waste from former Scottish & Southern Office
YPH was commissioned to provide the waste services for the demolition of an old office building on a former Scottish & Southern Energy site. This was to make way for...
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New Primark opens in Yeovil
When Primark signed up to take on the old Woolworths store in the shopping centre in Yeovil, contractors moved in for what was to be a re-fit commencing in July...
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Site Waste Management Plan
Below is a real SWMP in which YPH features as the sole waste contractor.  The site is an office extension and fit-out worth about £2m, the first wing of which...
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Bin sizes and capacities
Although not a typical case study, we are regularly asked for bin sizes and so we thought it would be helpful to put these on our site. If you have...
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