Our waste management specialists work to achieve industry-best outcomes for clients, consistently meeting regulatory requirements in the approval of landfill and waste projects. Our innovative approach to waste issues provides sustainable and cost-effective solutions. URS’s multidisciplinary range of services cover the 5R’s of waste management — reduction, reuse, recycle, recover and residual management.

Waste-to-Energy
Increasing disposal costs at landfills and potential environmental impacts are changing the way we look at alternatives for management of municipal waste. URS assists clients with evaluation of realistic alternatives including aerobic and anaerobic composting options, and thermal disposal options.

Landfill Gas Management
URS assists clients with management of methane, the hazardous and odorous greenhouse gas produced by landfills. Services include assessment of gas volumes and potential hazards created by offsite migration of gas, through to contract review for gas utilisation and advice on claiming greenhouse gas credits through energy generation.

Hazardous Waste
URS is an industry leader in the field of hazardous waste management and policy development. Through identifying synergies between waste types and industry needs we have developed cost-effective solutions to previously intractable problems.

Cleaner Production
URS works with clients to continuously improve products, services and processes to reduce pollution and waste at the source. We assist a wide variety of companies with implementation of cost-effective cleaner technology strategies, and consistently find many opportunities exist through changing work practices, and management and training of staff — with little or no capital cost required.