The Situation
A multi-campus university generates a constant, varied stream of waste — laboratory chemicals, hazardous materials, liquid waste and routine facility streams — across hundreds of occupied buildings. The institution needed more than a collection service. It needed a partner who could work safely in live environments, identify and classify unknown laboratory material, maintain complete compliance records, and coordinate around teaching and research schedules without interruption.
Adding to the complexity, the portfolio spans multiple campuses with different operational requirements, each demanding consistent standards and a single, accountable point of contact.
Our Approach
Evoro built a long-term service model designed for consistency, compliance and minimal disruption across the university’s estate. This involved several key steps:
Establish a portfolio-wide service framework
Map the waste streams across all campuses and 500-plus buildings, establish scheduled collection routines, and set a single point of accountability for the entire portfolio.
Manage hazardous and laboratory streams safely
Deploy in-house chemists to assess, identify and classify laboratory chemicals — including unknown and unmanifested material — and segregate every stream for safe, compliant handling in occupied environments.
Maintain compliance and coordinate around campus life
Document every job with full manifesting and chain-of-custody records, and coordinate all work around teaching, research and operational requirements to keep disruption to a minimum.
The Results
Waste management across the university’s portfolio has run consistently and compliantly for more than 15 years, through changing campus needs and evolving regulatory requirements.
Laboratory and hazardous streams, including unknown materials, have been identified, classified and treated safely, protecting the institution’s compliance position and the safety of its people.
Scheduled, responsive service across 500-plus buildings has kept facilities operational without interrupting teaching or research.
The relationship has endured for over a decade and a half — a measure of consistent delivery at portfolio scale, and the clearest proof of what long-term partnership with Evoro looks like.
Consistency is the hardest thing to deliver at scale.
Anyone can deliver one clean job. Delivering thousands of them, across hundreds of occupied buildings, for fifteen years without a compliance failure, is a different discipline entirely.
“[CLIENT QUOTE PENDING — a line from WSU facilities or sustainability on reliability and compliance over the 15-year relationship.]”
