Hazardous waste, handled.
Profile to final disposition.
Compliance-managed hazardous waste removal for industrial operators across the West. Manufacturing, semiconductor, aerospace, pharma, construction, and retail. Same Project Manager, every call.
Service Area: California · Arizona · Nevada · Oregon · New Mexico · West Texas
If it's regulated, we route it.
Across 34 years we've handled essentially every common industrial waste stream. If you don't see yours below, call us. Odds are we manage it.
Responsible waste removal, handled by people who answer the phone.
For 34 years, industrial operators across the West have called us for one reason: when someone asks about a drum from three years ago, the answer is already on file. We profile the waste, prepare the manifest, route the transport, and close the documentation. You run your operation. We manage the waste stream and the paperwork behind it.
One point of contact, every call
A named Project Manager from quote through final disposition. The same person who profiled your first drum is still picking up the phone fifteen years later. Institutional memory is part of the service.
The whole market, not one owned facility
National conglomerates route to the disposal sites they own, whether or not those sites are the right fit or the right price for your stream. We don't own any, so we broker the whole market and place each stream where it actually belongs.
Cradle-to-grave documentation
Every manifest, every certificate of destruction, indexed and retrievable. If a regulator or DA office follows up two years later, the paper trail closes cleanly. That's the deliverable.
Hazardous waste looks like a logistics problem.
It is a liability problem.
Every drum that leaves your facility carries your name on the manifest. A missed labeling requirement, a transporter without current DTSC registration, a profile that doesn't match the actual contents. These are the things that turn a routine pickup into an EPA enforcement file.
As a broker, we're not chained to one disposal facility or one transport line. We route your waste through the right facility at the right price, then we own the paperwork from cradle to grave. The manifest stays in your name, because the law requires it and no vendor can take that from you. What we take on is the work of getting every step of it right.
Closing 5 stores. Or 200.
We handle the hazardous piece.
Regional chain liquidations, beauty & cosmetics rollouts, big-box closures, end-of-lease cleanouts, and small multi-site projects, all coordinated across CA, AZ, NV, OR, NM, and West Texas from a single point of contact.
Right-Sized Coordination
Whether it's 5 stores or 200, one phone call covers the project. Manifests consolidated by retailer, not by store. Documentation in the format your finance team expects.
Cosmetics, Aerosols & Beauty Inventory
Nail polish, hairspray, fragrances, expired cosmetic stock, cleaning products. The categories that make a retail liquidator's compliance officer nervous. We profile them, route them, close the manifest.
Brand Protection
Retail closures attract regulatory attention. We handle pickups discreetly and close a complete cradle-to-grave documentation trail, so if anyone asks about a disposed stream three years from now, the answer is already on file.
Tight Timelines
Liquidation calendars don't move. We build the pickup schedule around your lease-handover dates, including weekend routing and parallel pickups where the waste stream and facility approvals allow.
- ScopeNational beauty retailer, multi-state
- StreamsCosmetics, aerosols, cleaning chems
- CoordinationSingle PM, consolidated manifests
- TimelineCleared in 11 days
- OutcomeAll locations cleared ahead of leases
Illustrative. Actual schedules depend on the waste stream, facility approval, and time of year.
Discuss your closure project →- ScopeRegional beauty boutique chain
- GeographyBay Area, single state
- Volume~14 drums plus lab pack
- TimelineCleared in 6 days
Illustrative. Actual schedules depend on the waste stream, facility approval, and time of year.
Same-business-day response. Straightforward streams often quote same day. A new customer or a new waste profile needs facility approval first, usually a few business days. Call (800) 662-4374 with your store count and target dates.
Operating beauty retail in California? Read our Cosmetics & Beauty Compliance Guide on the Sephora and Ulta enforcement actions.
Four steps. One point of contact. Zero open loops.
Call or Quote
Tell us what you've got and where you've got it. We come back the same business day. Straightforward streams often get pricing right away.
Profile & Approval
We characterize the waste and submit the profile to the receiving facility. New customers and new streams usually take a few business days to approve. Then the manifest is generated and pickup is scheduled with a DTSC-registered transporter.
Removal & Transport
Drums labeled, loaded, and routed to the appropriate facility. You get a copy of every signed document.
Final Disposition
You receive the certificate of destruction or final disposition documentation. The compliance loop closes.
One person on the phone. Three-plus decades of institutional knowledge.
Hazardous Disposal Specialists was founded in January 1992 in Carlsbad, California, with a simple premise: the hazardous waste industry needed someone who would stay on the phone with the regulator until the file was closed. Thirty-four years later, headquartered in Truckee, that's still what we do.
When you call, you reach the person who handles your project, start to finish. The same person who profiles your first drum is the one who'll be there when DTSC sends a follow-up letter three years later. National competitors offer scale. We offer that the person you spoke to will remember your name.
We're privately held, debt-free, and BBB-accredited with an A+ rating since 2009. In 34 years, no complaint has ever been filed against us with the BBB.
At a Glance
Ready to get this off your desk?
Send us the basics and we'll respond the same business day. Straightforward streams usually get pricing right away. Prefer to talk? Call the line below.
CA · AZ · NV · OR · NM · W. TX(800) 662-4374Commercial & industrial generators only. No household waste.