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About Us

Consultancy; Island Enterprises Limited can provide consultancy services to public and private sector clients in the ‘Logical' aspects of effectively managing waste. In recent years there has been a significant increase in the amount of legislation surrounding waste management such as:

  • European Waste Catalogue codes
  • Hazardous Waste management
  • Duty of Care
  • Waste licensing and planning

Our aim is to provide Logical Solutions to Environmental Pollution to our clients.

Identifying Risks; Soil and water contamination is a serious problem throughout the UK and Ireland for dev elopers, property owners and those involved in construction and poses a significant environmental hazard. Many environmental company's fail to understand the client's needs and all too often there solutions are difficult to understand and very expensive. Island Enterprise offers Logical Solutions to Environmental Pollution that are simple to follow and easy to cost for the client.

Reviewing Data; from reviewing existing data to help with the Design of full investigations IE have the capability. At the start of any project it is vital to collect the right information in order to properly determine the most cost effective solution to the problem. With experts who have completed thousands of projects IE can offer its clients guaranteed solutions that are logical and easy to implement.

A Range of Remediation Solutions; for contaminated land and groundwater. These solutions include the following: Bio-remediation, Vacuum Extraction, Thermal, soil processing, Pump and Treat and the disposal of material to our own licensed recycling facility or Landfill. The key is to select the best system to solve the problem as every site has it's own individual characteristics and risks.

The Treatment Facility; located in Belfast has been licensed with 2 exemptions under the waste management licensing regulations (Northern Ireland ) 2003. Exemption 1 (WMEX 23/12/02) allows for the processing of ash, slag, gypsum clinker to name but a few materials which arises from demolition, construction, tunnelling or other excevations. These materials when encountered at any site during works can be very costly to deal with our facility offers a logical solution which is cost effective. The waste can be trans frontier shipped (TFS) as the process is recycling. Exemption 2 (WMEX 23/12/02) allows for the composting of biodegradable waste such as contaminated soils, sludges from effluent treatment facilities and 35 other specified bio-degradable wastes. Again as a recycling process wastes can be TFS'd.

A Range Of Training; which includes National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) levels 1-5 in Waste Management Operations, Managing Civic Amenity, Managing Haz/Non Hazardous Landfill Operations, Managing Haz/Non Hazardous Treatment Operations and recycling operations.

Analysis of air emissions, effluent, leachate, soil and groundwater using sub-contracted laboratories both in Ireland and UK as required. IE can offer an independent service in the interpretation off the results. Our work can identify areas of risk on sites and plan for future dev elopment of management systems.

Landfill Monitoring, Landfill gas management is critical given the high risk to health and compliance with emission directives. We carry out the design and installation of active gas systems. We also provide ongoing maintenance of the system and monitoring of gas flow to ensure the efficiency of management and reduce environment impact from the site. In addition to landfill gas management systems, Island Enterprises LTD conduct monitoring of landfill impact such as gas, odours, etc. Having an extensive background in landfill operations we can advice clients of cost effective practical solutions enhancing environmental impact and public relations.