Because of the industrial growth in the King doom and the demand for riddance the pharmaceutical, industrial, and chemical hazardous waste that went parallel with new environmental regulations to governing hazardous waste.
SEPCO Environment has decided to expanded its environment activity by entering the field of collecting, transporting, treating, and disposing of hazardous waste, in environmentally safe and internationally approved methods along with the implementation of quality management system (I.S.O 19001, 14001, and 18001) to meet global criteria which is in fact essential for corporate image and clientele requirements.
SEPCO has established a mutual agreement With ATI company in France, for design and construction the thermal oxidation system equipped with filtration system friendly to environment.
In addition: SEPCO Environment did not stop to the point of safe environmental to collecting, transporting, treating, and disposing of industrial, pharmaceutical, and chemical hazardous waste. But it has inspiration to expand its activity in other environmental aspects that will have direct impact on health and improving environment solution. SEPCO has enthusiasm to implement its environmental policy, mission, vision, and goal.
Environment Laboratories:
As environmental standards become more tight in and EIA studies are conducted in a rapid pace by industrial facilities in Saudi Arabia, and in the absence of an advanced laboratory service provider to serve industries in Saudi Arabia, it has been a common practice for many industries and other private and government sectors to send their environmental samples abroad for analysis which is costly and time consuming, SEPCO directly realized the need for a sophisticated, independent laboratory facility in the Kingdom, where there is great demand from contractors, refineries and industrial facilities to conduct environmental lab tests required by regulatory authorities as part of EIA studies. SEPCO has already signed an agreement with SGS Company, an established name in the world today for testing and environmental services.
Health Impact:
- Reducing number of injuries and infections caused by the practice of miss handling of industrial, pharmaceutical and chemical waste.
- Hazardous waste is no longer dumped in municipal waste containers in residential areas, thus eliminating a serious health hazard and preventive potential infectious diseases.
- Providing professional training courses for health workers.
- Producing health awareness brochures for community education.
Environmental Impact :
- With both the Kingdom's issuance of tough hazardous waste management regulations and penalties, coupled with SEPCO's enormous efforts and heavy investment, this comprehensive system of a hazardous waste treatment program is now one of Saudi Arabia's good examples of what a good environmental investment should be.
- This program helped to prevent illegal un-authorized random dumping of waste in remote areas and municipal landfills.
- An effective hazardous waste program actually does in it's own way protect the ambient environment and preserve it's resources.
- Protect public health from pathogens and infectious diseases.
- Promote environmentally friendly activities in industries.
- SEPCO has helped in accomplishing what was conceder an impossible task of reshaping the ignorance and misconceptions surrounding hazardous waste among health workers, governmental officials and the community.
- Periodic awareness seminars around the Kingdom aimed at educating the public on the health hazards associated with medical waste.
