“Assume It is Outside and Forget It” I’ve been thinking, compliance is invisible, non-compliance often gets the spotlight. Non-compliance provides the kind of attention we seek to avoid at WTS.  Non-compliance, poor decisions, pressing the

In the fourth installment of ‘Getting to Know Us’, Barry Taggart takes us on a quick journey about his professional career at WTS and highlights how he works with compliance. For more information on the

The chemical industry is accelerating forward on a path towards sustainability with an ultimate objective of circularity.  Circularity, with regard to the economy and business, is aimed at the reduction and eventual elimination of waste. 

49 CFR 172.604 defines the requirements for the inclusion of Emergency Response Phone Numbers on Hazardous Waste Manifests (HWM). At times though, there can be some ambiguity and confusion as to when a contract number needs

If you store hazardous wastes in your facility, you are likely to need secondary containment systems to meet one or more regulations. Neither the EPA nor OSHA specifies what a secondary containment system must look like.

Regulating Authority Comparison Moving products overseas often starts with a sample evaluation by the end user, even if a Certificate of Analysis or other product information is available.  Care must be taken to ship samples

March 2021 Industry acceptance of the e-Manifest program continues to be found lacking.Consider these statistics that USEPA announced just this week. Since the inception of the e-Manifest program on June 30, 2018 and through January

Overview / Background: Everyone has seen the posters and heard safety mantras such as, “Every incident is preventable,” “Safety first,” and “Safety is our priority.”  These might mean more to some people than they do

In the third installment of ‘Getting to Know Us’, Tom Dobmeier takes us on a quick journey about his professional career at WTS and highlights WTS’s commitment to safety.

GOAL ZERO has been a mantra and way of life for WTS for over 38 years meaning that we strive for 100% compliance and zero safety concerns for all of the services we provide to

Safety Always: If I’m Not Safe, You’re Not Safe There we were, on an icy, snowy highway returning from a fun afternoon of winter skiing.  Me behind the wheel of our minivan, my family and

Large Quantity Generators (Generated 2,200 lbs. or more of Hazardous Waste in any single calendar month or accumulated at any time more than 2.2 lbs. of acute hazardous waste in any single calendar month; or generated more