CHALLENGES | WASTE
Navigating Compliance, Sustainability & Safety in Pharmaceutical Waste Streams
Zero Waste and Circularity Goals
Meeting corporate sustainability targets and international green commitments through circular solutions maximizing material recovery, advancing toward zero-waste to landfill, and ensuring complete traceability to demonstrate measurable progress toward global environmental goals.
Operational Continuity & Risk Management
Inefficient waste handling threatens production continuity through contamination risks, regulatory penalties, and operational bottlenecks, highlighting the need for integrated solutions that ensure safety, compliance, and uninterrupted operations.
Compliance & Regulatory Alignment
Hazardous waste management must follow international and local environmental regulations, requiring consistent global alignment, accurate documentation, and complete traceability throughout the waste lifecycle.
Complex Waste Streams
Pharmaceutical and biotech sites produce diverse and complex waste including high potential waste, chemical by-products, spent solvents, cytotoxic compounds, POP waste and laboratory residues, posing environmental and health risks that require specialized handling and strict compliance.
SOLUTION | TOTAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
On Site Circular Waste Management
Total Waste Management offer deliver end-to-end circular waste management with a dedicated on site team ensuring safe handling of all your waste streams while maximizing resource recovery. Letting you focus on innovation while we advance your circularity objectives and handle compliance complexities. Our comprehensive service covers:
- Waste characterization, labeling and segregation
- Equipment provision and storage management
- Coordination, collection, and transport to disposal/treatment
- Regulatory compliance and reporting support
- Minimized environmental footprint and landfill diversion
- Rapid incident management response
- Maximized material recovery (eg. solvent recovery)
From container supply to safety-compliant storage and expert coordination, we manage every aspect of your waste lifecycle. Our integrated approach transforms regulatory challenges into streamlined operations, ensuring appropriate treatment for every waste stream while advancing your sustainability goals.
SOLUTION | TOTAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
Integrated Emergency Services for Uninterrupted Operations
As your dedicated on site partner, we're strategically positioned to respond instantly when unexpected incidents threaten your operations. Our embedded presence eliminates response delays through immediate access to specialized expertise and advanced containment equipment. Whether facing chemical spills, solvent leaks, equipment failures, or pharmaceutical waste breaches, our 24/7 rapid intervention team delivers real-time characterization, regulatory coordination, and complete remediation while maintaining seamless operational continuity. We transform potential crises into managed situations with minimal impact - because when you're advancing critical pharmaceutical innovation, downtime and regulatory non-compliance are never options.
SOLUTION | TOTAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
Solvent Recovery Services
We recover and purify pharmaceutical-grade solvents from your waste streams, including acetone, ethanol, methanol, and specialty organic compounds. Our advanced systems restore solvents for safe reuse in industrial applications, reducing hazardous waste and supporting sustainable circular economy practices.
SOLUTION | SPECIAL WASTE
Comprehensive Solutions for Complex Waste Streams
Pharmaceutical and biotech operations produce highly diverse and often hazardous wastes. Managing these safely requires specialized expertise, robust risk management, and strict regulatory compliance. Veolia offers comprehensive solutions, covering every type of waste: from non-hazardous materials to toxic industrial waste including: spent solvents, high potential waste, chemical wastes, pharmaceutical waste, bio-hazardous, POP waste and laboratory waste.
We ensure that each waste stream is handled, treated, and disposed of safely and efficiently in our state-of-the-art facilities, minimizing environmental impact while protecting people and operations.
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Secure & Certified Confidential Product Disposal
We safely dispose of: recalled products, defective goods, off-spec batches, expired pharmaceuticals and chemicals, and proprietary formulations requiring confidential disposal.
Our end-to-end certified destruction ensures complete security and traceability. From secure tamper-proof collection and GPS-tracked transport to destruction in 24/7 monitored facilities, we guarantee maximum confidentiality. Our comprehensive process includes: expert assessment, secure storage in restricted access areas, certified destruction methods with resource recovery when possible, and full documentation with destruction certificates.
Pharmaceutical Industry ESG Targets
- Zero Waste to Landfill: frequent targets of 100% landfill-free sites by 2025-2030.
- Reduction of hazardous waste volume : significant reductions (20%-50%)
- Circular Economy Approach: maintain recycling/recovering rate ≥ 90%
- Promote circular economy
Regulatory Compliance Framework
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
Currently applied to e-waste, expanding to plastics and packaging. Producers must collect, treat, and report on their products' end-of-life management.
Resource Sustainability Act (RSA)
Mandatory packaging data reporting and waste reduction plans required. Companies must use recyclable materials and integrate circular economy principles.
Environmental Protection & Management Act
Strict licensing required for hazardous substance management. Heavy penalties and operational shutdown risks for environmental violations.
Toxic Industrial Waste Regulations (TIWR)
Establishes standards for proper handling, storage, and disposal. Complete documentation and traceability requirements mandatory.
Government Strategic Initiatives
Zero Waste Masterplan 2030
Singapore targets 30% landfill waste reduction by 2030 through circular economy innovation. This ambitious plan drives resource recovery and sustainable transformation across all industries.
Singapore Green Plan 2030
A comprehensive sustainability roadmap quintupling solar energy and reducing waste by 30%.
MARKET DRIVERS | WASTE
Navigating Singapore's Evolving Waste Regulations
Singapore's pharmaceutical industry faces increasingly stringent environmental regulations and ambitious sustainability targets. Successfully navigating this evolving compliance landscape requires strategic expertise to ensure both regulatory adherence and competitive advantage.
OUR VALUE PROPOSITION
Why choose Veolia for you hazardous waste management?
End-to-End Waste Management
We manage your complete waste lifecycle from characterization and collection to treatment and disposal, handling all pharmaceutical waste streams through specialized protocols ensuring safe, compliant handling.
Circularity Driven Solutions
We minimize landfill use by prioritizing recycling, recovery, and circular disposal routes, reducing environmental impact while maintaining full regulatory compliance.
Tailored Solutions for Every Operation
Whether for API or biotech manufacturing, research or laboratories activities, we customize our integrated approach combining technical expertise, regulatory support, and operational coordination to streamline waste management and reduce operational risks.
Global Experience with Local Alignment
Leveraging our international experience working with leading pharmaceutical companies worldwide while ensuring full compliance with Singapore's regulatory framework, we deliver proven solutions adapted to local requirements and global industry standards.
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