Closing 20 stores. Or 200.
We handle the hazardous piece.
National retail chain closures, beauty & cosmetics liquidations, big-box site shutdowns, and end-of-lease cleanouts — coordinated across California, Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon from a single point of contact.
- CoverageCA · AZ · NV · OR
- Project Size5 to 200+ stores
- SpecialtyBeauty, cosmetics, big-box
- Quote SpeedSame business day
- Mobilization5–10 business days
- CoordinationSingle Project Manager
- DocumentationCradle-to-grave, consolidated
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 a transporter who will arrive tomorrow morning needs a manifest signed by an authorized agent today.
For 35 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 that says yes when the deadline is unreasonable, and then closes the manifest cleanly so the brand name never resurfaces in an EPA file three years later.
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 (D001 ignitable). Nail polish and polish remover (D001/F003). Expired or damaged cosmetic inventory. Volume can run from a few cases per store to dozens of pallets in distribution-center liquidations.
Paint, batteries, automotive, lawn & garden
Latex and oil-based paints, lithium and lead-acid batteries, motor oil, antifreeze, lubricants, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, pool chemicals. Universal waste mixed with RCRA-regulated streams — 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 are handled through separate channels and require a registered reverse distributor — HDS coordinates with these partners as needed.
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.