Environmental Services

Welcome to Hargreaves Environmental Services

The Environmental Services business is split into two core areas: Land Remediation and Waste Management Services. Both business areas support each other, but offer customers two individual offerings.

Land Remediation focused on the regeneration of vacant and derelict land, through the use of Bio-Resources. While our Waste Management Services business assists companies with their waste disposal and management criteria.

Hargreaves Land Remediation

Headquartered on the west coast of Scotland near Ayr, we are a leading environmental services provider across the UK offering a unique combination of technical expertise and practical experience. We are ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 accredited.

Hargreaves Environmental Services has restored and remediated over 10,000 acres of land.

Our technical experts work with customers to provide a professional, flexible, cost effective and compliant range of land management, carbon offsetting and commercial forestry creation services. Across a wide range of environmental requirements, including accessing, remediating, restoring, and adding value through carbon capture on vacant and derelict sites. We manage projects, from the initial enquiry through to delivery phase, while also being able to contribute and lead on specific requirements of larger projects. We believe this flexibility to work with existing in-house or sub-contractor teams is a key benefit to our service offering. Likewise, our ability to consult with local and statutory authorities by providing solutions across a broad range of land banks will be of benefit to you and make your environmental project experience a positive one.

Sites include:

• Brownfield sites
• Ex-Mineral sites
• Open-cast mines
• Landfills and quarries

Our offering for land remediation includes:

Hargreaves Waste Management Services

Headquartered in Durham, we are a leading waste management services provider, with a one stop shop solution across the UK, delivering a unique combination of technical expertise and practical experience.

The team provide an array of comprehensive and long-term business waste services, ranging from waste recovery and recycling to treatment and disposal. With the ability to offer disposal, recovery, and recycling only through to collection, transportation, compliance management and destination. The business has experience of onsite waste management, including the provision of dedicated labour through to full waste volume planning on projects with volumes in excess of 100k tonnes.

Likewise, the team can assist companies with hard to dispose of items or find routes for recovery and recycling from traditional landfill waste materials. In recent years this has included forming partnerships with customers needing routes for final destination on items such as mattresses, tyres, belting, organics, inerts etc. While also delivering services for mainstream waste materials like domestic waste, construction waste, food waste, waste fines etc.

We have a wide capability offering which includes:

Hargreaves Environmental Services has restored and remediated over 10,000 acres of land.

Our technical experts work with customers to provide a professional, flexible, cost effective and compliant range of land management and carbon offsetting services. Across a wide range of environmental requirements, including accessing, remediating, restoring and adding value through carbon capture on unused and derelict sites.

We manage projects, from the initial enquiry through to delivery phase, while also being able to contribute and lead on specific requirements of larger projects. We believe this flexibility to work with existing in-house or sub-contractor teams is a key benefit to our service offering.

Likewise, our ability to consult with local and statutory authorities by providing solutions across a broad range of land banks will be of benefit to you and make your environmental project experience a positive one.

Sites include:

• Brownfield sites
• Ex-Mineral sites
• Open-cast mines
• Landfills and quarries

Robin Waddell, Acquisitions Agent & VDL Project Manager at Forestry and Land Scotland:

“The Forestry and Land Scotland Vacant and Derelict Land projects aim to re-green former open-cast coal sites and open up new, vibrant green spaces to help revitalise communities and local landscapes blighted by the legacy of open-cast mining. The project will also contribute towards national climate change ambitions, including targets for creating new woodlands, locking up carbon, and improving biodiversity.

From our initial meetings with Hargreaves Environmental Services five years ago, it was clear that we shared goals of regenerating these barren ex open-cast landscapes. Since then, we have worked closely to develop a partnership that sees Hargreaves Environmental Services remediate these moonscapes to our specification, which is designed to de-compact the “soils” and add sufficient nutrients to allow the free growth of trees. The sites are then transferred to us to develop the woodland.

Our long-term vision is to transform sites across South Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and in Fife by planting about 5,000,000 trees to create 2,500ha of vibrant and economically productive greenspace.

Our partnership with Hargreaves Environmental Services, and getting sites to the condition where they are ready to plant, is a huge step towards meeting that ambition".

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