Services
We provide our services for a diverse set of client industries, such as pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, research, high tech, and many more. Our assistance is helping some of the most prestigious companies and organizations in California be safer and more profitable.
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Comprehensive Waste Management
Comprehensive Waste Management means that we help you do much more than just dispose of your hazardous waste. Our range of services will help you:
- Predict — Your needs for hazardous waste remediation
- Plan — The most effective management and disposal methods
- Process — Rest assured that you are using the safest and most efficient remediation methods possible
ACT keeps you:
- Safe — By reducing your risks
- Secure — By meeting all regulations
- Profitable — By keeping remediation efficient
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Consulting Services
Advanced Chemical Transport provides full service environmental safety services, with state wide and national experience and distinction. ACT was established in 2000 with the goal of being a full service environmental management organization providing unparalleled service to a wide variety of waste generators. ACT’s services will solve your company’s environmental health & safety issues, meet regulatory requirements and give all of your employee’s peace of mind.
At ACT we design specific solutions to meet your unique compliance needs. ACT can be on site to keep your company in regulatory compliance, prepare written programs, provide training, prepare and/or update your chemical inventory, conduct regular safety inspections, maintain all environmental permits such as County Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP), Industrial Waste Water Permit, quarterly and annual submissions to the State of CA regarding hazardous waste generation, and submit required reports and fee submissions as needed.
Let ACT conduct your safety meetings, including setting the agenda, chairing the meeting, and distributing meeting minutes. ACT uses the situations we’ve encountered and the knowledge we gained to impart meaningful information to our clients.
At ACT our goal is to help our clients develop and implement an effective safety program from which everyone can profit. Our clients also use the services listed below.
- Maintain your radioactive materials license (RML)
- Implement your Injury & Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP)
- Perform industrial hygiene sampling as needed for employee chemical exposures in the workplace
- Training for all safety issues from radiation to equipment
- ACT handles all written plans & programs
- ACT will handle all permits and reports
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Parts Washer Service
ACT is pleased to offer aqueous / water based parts washers. Our systems are environmentally friendly and contain zero VOCs. Benefits include reduced employee risk, no permit required, non-flammable, lower service cost and better overall cleaning. The non-solvent systems are non-toxic and meet Air Quality Management District Guidelines and clean a wider range of applications than solvent based part washers. Check out one of the models below for additional information:
- ACT 6E / ACT 6A Small Parts and Brake Washer
- ACT 19 Aqueous Parts Washer
- ACT 30 Aqueous Parts Washer
- ACT 45 Aqueous Parts Washer
ACT provides complete:
- Parts washer service offering a full line of parts washing equipment
- Equipment rental, purchase and/or lease options to fit your parts washer needs
- Service and solutions for your existing owned parts washing equipment
- ACT 19 Aqueous Parts Washer
For service or questions call Brian at 209-401-0082
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Transportation and Disposal
ACT provides a comprehensive solution for all your hazardous waste transportation and disposal needs. As a broker, with over 50 years combined experience in waste management, we have multiple relationships with the best TSDFs in the industry.
- Chemical waste — this includes flammable liquids, laboratory debris, spill clean up debris, bulk liquids.
- Bulk solids, misc. laboratory chemicals (lab packs), paints/epoxies, acids, etc.
- Radioactive waste — this includes aqueous liquids, contaminated debris, scintillation vials and cocktail.
- Radioactive sources, and mixed waste.
- Biological waste — this includes all potentially infectious materials; sharps, regulated medical waste, trace chemotherapy debris, and pharmaceutical waste.
- Universal and/or electronic waste — this includes all types of small batteries, all types of fluorescent light tubes, computer monitors and equipment, and certain mercury containing apparatus.
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Technical Services
In addition to transportation and disposal of hazardous waste, Advanced Chemical Transport Inc. offers an array of technical services to support the overall environmental needs of its clients.
These services include:
- On-site services — ACT has experienced technicians to assist with the daily bulking and labeling of satellite containers within the labs. These services can also include regular checks of fire extinguishers, safety showers, and eye wash stations.
- Equipment decontamination and cleaning — ACT’s decon staff possess the skills to clean the most dangerous and complex equipment. Whether the job requires entry into clean room environments or supplied air PPE, ACT can handle the most difficult functions.
- Chemical moves — Most companies do not have permits to move hazardous materials. ACT provides this service as well as support for relocating individual laboratories and entire facilities. We have the capabilities to move hazardous chemicals a few blocks or across the entire state.
- Chemical inventory — Since most companies are required to have updated chemical inventories on an annual basis, ACT offers assistance with keeping these inventories current.
- Site closures — ACT can assist with site closures from a decontamination level to phase I assessments and reports.
- Emergency spill response — Many of our clients have us as their first responder in their HMBP. ACT has a first response team that can handle most of your emergency needs. ACT is also teamed with several other industry responders to handle large and complex spills.
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Vacuum Truck Service
ACT understands what happens when your waste tanks and underground storage systems start to overflow – your business suffers. To prevent that, ACT has experienced professionals providing both scheduled and emergency vacuum services. We will recommend a service schedule that keeps your business moving forward.
ACT provides specialized vacuum services, transportation and disposal of clarifier waste water, tank rinsates and contaminated ground water. These services have proven to be valuable to our customers.
When a service call is received our experienced service technicians assess the customer’s unique requirements and respond quickly with safe and efficient waste-water management. Many customers take advantage of ACT’s exclusive service contract to maintain their sumps and clarifiers. This not only saves them money, but helps ensure regulatory compliance for sanitary sewage discharge requirements.
ACT services many industrial customers and reclaims thousands of gallons of waste-water every year. The water is treated, purified and sent to treatment facilities for re-use.
ACT’s vacuum truck services include:
- Clarifier (sump) cleaning and maintenance
- Car and truck wash sump/clarifier cleaning
- Underground storage tank removal and pit dewatering
- Underground storage tank cleaning
- Portable storage tank cleaning and disposal
- Construction dewatering for non-potable water
- Pumping of food grade sludge
- Hazardous materials spill clean-up and emergency spill response
- Waste water management
- Storage tank steam cleaning and decontamination
- Separator sludge
- Oily water
- Non-hazardous water
- Non-RCRA water
- Wastewater analysis
For service or questions call Brian at 1-866-333-9222.
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Environmental Health and Safety Outsourcing and Consulting
ACT can assist with all regulatory permitting, compliance and industrial hygiene needs. ACT can provide assistance from writing permits and safety programs to providing training and conducting facility safety audits. Some of the EH&S support we offer includes:
- Conducting industrial hygiene,indoor air quality and radioactive materials wipe surveys
- Performing facility environmental and safety assessments and workplace ergonomic evaluations
- Preparing site-specific written safety programs such as:
- Injury and Illness Prevention
- Program
- Radiation Safety
- Biosafety / Bloodborne Pathogens
- Chemical Hygiene
- Hazard Communication
- Hearing Conservation
- Respiratory Protection
- Lockout/Tagout
- Preparing regulatory compliance documents such as:
- Radioactive Materials License Applications/Amendments/Closeouts
- Hazardous Materials Business Plans
- Biennial Hazardous Waste Reports
- Industrial Discharge Applications
- APCD Permits
- Fire Department Permits
- Acting as the point of contact during inspections from a variety of regulatory agencies
- Conducting fume hood ventilation surveys and respiratory fit testing
- Conducting training sessions in the following areas:
- Injury & Illness Prevention Program
- Radiation Safety
- Biosafety / Bloodborne Pathogens
- Chemical Hygiene
- Hazard Communication
- Respiratory Protection
- Shipping Hazardous Materials
- Hazardous Waste Awareness
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Environmental Contracting
At all times safety and quality service is ACT’s top priority. ACT maintains the licenses and equipment to handle your environmental contracting needs. Our team of fully trained and knowledgeable personnel pride themselves on making the impossible possible. With ACT’s superior service & attention to detail ACT enjoys repeat clients and long term customer relationships. ACT provides these services to over 600 companies in the state of California. Let ACT help your company, by becoming your Environmental and Industrial Services contractor, and Emergency Response Team.
Environmental Contracting: ACT holds Class A Contractor’s License with Hazardous Materials Endorsement, OSHA certification, HAZWOPER certification as well as HM 181 certification, and DOT certification. ACT utilizes the industries state of the art equipment including confined space entry equipment, and emergency spill response equipment, cleaning equipment, and top of the line vacuum trucks.
Spill Response: At ACT we know that hazardous materials users must be ready in a moment’s notice, at any time to handle a spill. Let ACT handle the critical elements for a timely and safe effective response. ACT’s knowledge of hazardous materials, large stock of materials and equipment as well as some of the industries best trained personnel means ACT is always ready for you. Rest easy knowing ACT’s Emergency Response Team is just moments away from you.
Confined Space Entry: ACT specializes in confined space entry. Let our experts enter or support your staff for construction or maintenance space entry. ACT owns & maintains the latest in confined space entry equipment, monitoring equipment, PPE and safety systems to ensure safe and quality work.
ACT currently provides the following Environmental Services to our clients:
- Biohazard Cleaning and Disinfection
- Building and Facility Decontamination and Closure
- Confined Space Entry
- Chemical Cleaning and Decontamination
- Fuel Oil Tank Cleaning
- Heavy Metal and Chemical Decontamination
- Individual Chemical Tanks and Large Plating Tank Lines
- Large–scale Tank Cleaning
- PCB and Oil Decontamination
- RCRA Closure of Hazardous Waste Storage Areas
- Spill Cleanup
- Spill Response
- Tank Maintenance and Inspection
- Tank and Vessel Cleaning (Decommissioning and Industrial Renovations)
- Underground Tank Removal
- Utility and Vault Cleaning
- Waste Water treatment
- Waste Water neutralization
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Recycling Service
On average, Advanced Chemical Transport (ACT) recycles up to 86% of the hazardous materials we transport for our clients. Some clients receive over 95% recycling credit for their byproducts. ACT is an expert at finding outlets for spent materials and uses its national transportation system to deliver the materials to the most green and economic outlets. "The spent materials in the semiconductor industry make perfect bulk materials for the painting industry. Items with BTU value can be sent as fuels to cement kilns as fuel to process cement." ACT recycling service is your connection between producers of waste materials and consumers who turn these materials into new products.
ACT offers a wide variety of recycling solutions in order to meet the individual environmental goals of our customers. ACT’s network of service centers throughout California provides recycling services for everything from used oil to electronic waste. ACT provides extensive recycling options for solid and liquid fuels (including solvents and debris contaminated with solvents), Non-RCRA solids, and liquids and metal bearing wastes.
ACT has long been recognized as a national and local leader in recycling, ranking in the top 100 recycling companies nationwide.
Recycling Services:
- Solvent Recycling
- Solid and Liquid Fuels Blending
- Battery Recycling
- Universal Waste Recycling
- On-Site Solvent/Oil Recycling
- Oil Recycling
- Commodities (cardboard, paper, plastics etc.)
- Large–scale Tank Cleaning
- E-Waste
- Waste to Energy
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Bulk Solid Services
Safety and quality service are Advanced Chemical Transport’s (ACT) top priorities. ACT is pleased to announce our new line of Bulk Solid Waste Disposal Services to handle everything from routinely generated bulk solid waste to large soil and asbestos abatement projects. ACT is currently servicing over 600 companies in the U.S. and is an excellent choice for all of your bulk solid service needs.
ACT is fully permitted to transport federal and state regulated hazardous waste, as well as non-hazardous bulk solids. ACT’s comprehensive roll off services include sludge, filter cakes, contaminated soil, and construction debris.
ACT has over two dozen roll off boxes from 20 yard bins to 40 yard bins. ACT will deliver the roll off bins for you to load or ACT can load them for you. Our bins feature closable and non-closable styles with top or side loading access. ACT has the industry’s best trained employees and we will determine which size roll off bin suits your needs.
Got a tough disposal project? Our employees are trouble shooters trained to anticipate your challenges while staying on time and within budget. If you need a series of roll off bins delivered or managed for a construction or demolition project, or want your construction debris delivered to a proper recycling center or landfill, ACT is your choice.
ACT currently provides the following Bulk Solids Transportation and Disposal Services to our clients:
- Non-Hazardous Class II or Class III Waste
- Asbestos Containing Material (ACM)
- Construction Demolition Debris Recycling
- Contaminated Soil, Recycling & Disposal
- Solid Hazardous Waste
- RCRA Debris (metal bearing wastes)
- Filter Cakes
- Metal for Recycling