Closing 5 stores. Or 200.
We handle the hazardous piece.
National retail chain closures, beauty & cosmetics liquidations, big-box site shutdowns, and end-of-lease cleanouts, all coordinated across California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, New Mexico, and West Texas from a single point of contact.
- CoverageCA·AZ·NV·OR·NM·W.TX
- Project Size5 to 200+ stores
- SpecialtyBeauty, cosmetics, big-box
- ResponseTypically same business day
- Mobilization5 to 15 business days
- CoordinationSingle Project Manager
- DocumentationCradle-to-grave, consolidated
Quote and mobilization timing vary with the waste stream, the location, facility profile approval, and time of year. An established stream with an approved profile typically mobilizes in about a week. A new customer or a new waste profile takes two to three weeks, because the receiving facility has to approve the profile first.
The lease ends Friday. The hazardous waste does not care about your timeline.
Retail closures are run on liquidation calendars. Inventory gets cleared. Fixtures get auctioned. Stores hand back the keys. And somewhere in the middle, someone realizes that a hundred boxes of nail polish, twelve cases of aerosol hairspray, and a pallet of expired cleaning chemicals can't legally go in a dumpster, and that a transporter arriving tomorrow morning needs a manifest signed by an authorized agent today.
For 34 years HDS has handled the hazardous-waste piece of retail closures. Quietly, on the timeline you actually have, with single-point coordination across every store in the project. Liquidators and corporate environmental teams know us as the firm you can call when the deadline is unreasonable, and the one that closes out the manifest trail so the documentation is complete and indexed if anyone asks about that material three years from now.
The streams that turn a routine cleanout into a compliance event.
Different retailers, different categories, but the regulatory exposure tends to cluster around the same four buckets.
Aerosols, polishes, fragrances, expired stock
Hairspray, dry shampoo, deodorants, perfumes. Nail polish and polish remover. Expired or damaged cosmetic inventory. Waste characteristics and applicable codes are confirmed during profiling. Volume can run from a few cases per store to dozens of pallets in distribution-center liquidations.
Paint, batteries, automotive, lawn & garden
Oil-based paints, plus latex paints, which are usually non-hazardous but still need a disposal route. Lithium and lead-acid batteries, motor oil, antifreeze, lubricants, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, pool chemicals. Universal waste mixed in with fully regulated streams, where careful sorting is the entire game.
Expired pharmaceuticals, OTC chemicals
Expired OTC medications, hazardous pharmaceuticals (P-listed and U-listed), peroxides, isopropyl alcohol. DEA-controlled substances move through separate channels and require a registered reverse distributor. HDS can coordinate that piece where a project requires it.
Cleaning chemicals, fluorescents, electronics
Janitorial supplies (bleach, ammonia, degreasers), fluorescent lamps and ballasts, end-of-life electronics, mercury devices, store-maintenance equipment. The "everything else" bucket that closes out a project.
Have a closure on the calendar? Let's scope it.
Tell us the store count, the states, and your lease-handover dates. We'll typically respond the same business day. Pricing and a mobilization plan follow once we know the streams involved and where they sit. A new customer or a new waste profile needs facility approval first, which typically puts mobilization two to three weeks out. Commercial and industrial generators only.
Closing beauty or cosmetics retail? Read our Cosmetics & Beauty Compliance Guide →