All your metal and polymer additive manufacture waste, fully managed

Four steps, and only the first is yours. Tell us what you have — alloy, format, rough quantity, postcode. We classify each stream against the List of Waste and WM3 guidance and establish its transport category in writing, whether or not you go ahead. We supply the containers if needed and collect around your production schedule. You get the documentation back, with a recovery statement and the pre-agreed percentage value of what we recovered.

Collection is charged. The metal we recover is valued and the agreed percentage of the value returned to you — paid out, or credited against your next collection, whichever suits. On an ongoing account the recoverable streams progressively offset the ones that carry a disposal charge (filters and residues mainly). We do not publish a rate card: price depends on alloy, format, contamination and distance. But we provide a transparent breakdown of what we are able to recover.

Most additive manufacturing sites split powder, solid scrap and filters across a hazardous waste contractor, a scrap merchant and a machine OEM. Three sets of paperwork, three collection windows, three places the audit trail can break. One collection and one record removes the duplication. And because nickel, cobalt, titanium and chromium hold value even as spent powder, swarf and filter loadings, the recoverable material works against the cost of removing the rest.

Five regimes apply to the same drum at once: waste classification, duty of care, dangerous goods carriage under ADR, site permitting, and occupational health and safety. None satisfies the others — a drum can lawfully be non-hazardous waste and Packing Group I dangerous goods at the same time. That is where most of the risk sits. General waste contractors will not take reactive metal powder, and scrap merchants are not set up for waste that needs consigning. We are built for the overlap.

Not necessarily. The natural List of Waste codes for metal dust and particles are absolute non-hazardous entries, so hazard assessment cannot change them. Filters and clean-out residues fall to a mirror pair where the metal loading is assessed, and for nickel and cobalt loadings a hazardous classification is realistic. Separately, the same material can still be Packing Group I dangerous goods for transport. We assess rather than assume.

Recovered metal displaces primary production, and making titanium, nickel and cobalt from ore is among the most energy-intensive industrial processes there is. Material that goes to recovery does not go to landfill or incineration. What we will not tell you is that every kilogram is recycled, or that the service is zero waste. But the more we can recover and recycle the better. You get a recovery statement per consignment, which is a figure you can use in your own reporting.

Yes, and it is what most sites settle on. Scheduled collections across every stream, one account, one set of records, and a recovery statement each time. You stop tracking drums, chasing consignment notes and storing material you cannot move. One-off collections are equally welcome — a decommissioning, a clearance or a single batch needs no commitment.

We serve anyone from universities with two machines and a cupboard of legacy drums to production facilities with dozens of machines and auditors who will ask exactly where material went.

Yes. Titanium is one of the streams the service was built around, and the one general waste contractors most often decline. Tell us the alloy, format and condition and we will tell you what handling it needs.

Tell us what you have: alloy, format, approximate quantity, and whether the material has been passivated or wetted. If you do not know, say so — working it out is part of the assessment. We can supply containers if required.

It depends how the stream classifies. Hazardous waste requires a consignment note and we produce it. Non-hazardous takes an ordinary waste transfer note. Either way the paperwork is ours to prepare and yours to keep — three years for hazardous, two for non-hazardous.

Yes, and they are usually the stream customers most want gone. They are also the most likely to classify as hazardous, so they need assessing.

We collect across the United Kingdom.

A normal enquiry, not an awkward one. Decommissioned machines, inherited stores and unlabelled legacy drums are part of the job. Do not open it, do not decant it, and do not move it until it has been assessed.

Yes. Tell us how many machines, which alloys ran through them, and how long the material has been sitting. Those three answers determine most of the plan.