Soil Solutions
Key Services
- Reduce risk
- Reduce waste
- Stay compliant
- Win tenders
- Save time
- Save money
Understanding soils. Unearthing value.
GRS Soil Solutions helps you understand your waste, offering the right treatment and disposal options enable better decision making, ensure compliance, minimise risk, improve circularity and reduce costs.
Every year the UK generates more than 100 million tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation waste (CDEW). Half of that is waste soils, commonly known as muck away. Only a fraction of that material – less than 1% – will be classified as hazardous, requiring specialist treatment of landfill.
The rest could be reprocessed and reused is construction or land remediation, and in many cases might not need to be moved off site at all. With the application of knowledge through comprehensive testing, optimum value can be realised, saving time, money and energy, as well as reducing waste.
Assessment and classification
Removal & Disposal
Whether you need to dispose of recyclable demolition waste or complex hazardous soils, GRS Soil Solutions will give you the most cost-effective and sustainable option. Depending on the classification of your waste, GRS is committed to offering recovery, recycling or treatment options, always taking into account the waste hierarchy.
The GRS Soil Solutions team’s knowledge of waste management facilities nationwide is second-to-none, with over 300 individual sites audited and approved. Whatever and wherever your waste, we have a solution. In all cases, at the forefront of our mind is sustainability – if we can find a sustainable way to reuse or reprocess your material we will – and this can oſt en be more cost effective too! Landfill is always the last resort.
Duty of Care & Compliance
Anyone who generates, handles, transports, treats or disposes of waste must take all reasonable steps to ensure compliance with all current legislative requirements set out in the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This can be a real minefield for any contractor – the environmental, commercial and legal ramifications of any non-conformance can be severe. So, let GRS Soil Solutions ease the pressure and help eliminate the risks. Our dedicated team has the knowledge and experience to protect your interests to ensure compliance. Since everyone in the supply chain must ensure ‘duty of care’ requirements are met, with GRS Soil Solutions you can be sure that you have fulfilled your responsibilities. The risk of non-compliance isn’t worth it!
Soil Testing & Reporting
Does the information you’ve got allow you to classify the waste? Is the existing analysis enough to satisfy the Government’s Technical Guidance WM3? Do you need Air-Dried Analysis or a WAC Test? If you have asbestos is it quantified? Is there any chemical analysis? We come across these types of issues every day. Initial site investigations are oſten just that – investigatory. They are done long before an excavator bucket goes into the ground and they rarely give a complete picture of what’s actually beneath the surface. That’s why specific, targeted testing of sites in advance of development can oſt en save fortunes on any bid – or on the muck shiſt itself if required.
GRS Soil Solutions has a wealth of first-hand sampling and reporting experience proven to help customers win tenders, save money and remain compliant. We offer this service nationwide, using UKAS accredited laboratories and can provide online classification data within our comprehensive reports. Contact us to find out more.