
Augean
About us
Augean is a leading waste management company that provides services across several industries in the UK.
With expertise across Renewable Energy, Infrastructure, Construction, Nuclear, Processing, Manufacturing, and Oil and Gas sectors, Augean is strategically positioned to deliver innovative commercial and compliance solutions in complex, regulated markets.
The group offers a comprehensive range of waste services including reuse, recycling, recovery, treatment, transfer, disposal, and specialist industrial services
Products

Treatment and Transfer Services
Augean’s Treatment & Transfer sites are integral to the operations of the processing and manufacturing sector. These strategically placed sites serve different regions, providing essential services to industries. Each site is specifically designed to manage various treatment capacities and capabilities, as well as bulk transfer operations that focus on promoting the reuse, recycling and recovery of wastes.

Renewable Energy
As market leaders in the recovery, treatment and disposal of APCr, Fly Ash, hazardous IBA and other residues, we have decades of technical, commercial and operational experience and expertise. We can offer carbon benefits by combining our industry-leading logistics expertise with our range of safe and compliant options for the recovery and disposal of APCr, Fly Ash, hazardous IBA and other residues. We are the only UK company to offer the Renewable Energy sector the efficiency of a complete solution.

Hi-Pod
Our HiPod range is a popular service offering containerised waste solutions for a multitude of hazardous waste streams. Our HiPods can be stored both indoors and outdoors, or utilised within the waste production areas, removing double handling, and providing a safe and compliant storage of hazardous waste. In addition, we specialise in the management of packaged wastes ranging in size from lab smalls to drums to IBCs. Our team will always balance the most economic option with environmental regulations, the waste hierarchy and your specific requirements. Ensuring all relevant and applicable hazardous waste regulations are followed, our team can provide specialist technical advice to complex identification, packaging, recovery and recycling initiatives.

Construction
Augean’s waste treatment facilities are located near Middlesbrough and Peterborough, serving a wide variety of land reclamation, construction, and demolition projects. We manage over 220,000 tonnes of waste from these projects with extensive permits and ISO certifications, and we can handle a wide variety of contaminants, including asbestos, hydrocarbons, and radioactive materials. Whether you require complete project management services such as sampling and analysis, excavation, and logistics, or you prefer to simply send your waste to us for treatment and disposal, we will work with you to find sustainable, cost-effective, and compliant solutions.

Radioactive Waste Services
Augean works closely with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in their mission to clean up the UK’s earliest nuclear sites safely, securely and cost effectively. Alongside the NDA, Augean manages radioactive waste from a range of other sources, including NORM and Research Sites. Our specialist centres process by-products and waste materials from the Radioactive Industry to provide cost effective solutions for re-use, recovery or disposal. We have significant processing capacity to sustainably treat contaminated metals, solids and selected liquids. The quality of our service and infrastructure, and the range and quantities of wastes we treat and dispose under our Environmental Permits, are valued by our customers. From initial enquiry our team are on hand to guide customers through the process of safely and compliantly dealing with these often hard to handle wastes. Our technical team review all enquiries, understanding that timing is often crucial to keep a project moving. Once a project is under way, our customer service team ensure all compliance paperwork meets regulatory standards with full reporting available.

Oil & Gas
Originally focused on Drilling Waste Management services, over the last 10 years we have expanded our portfolio to offer a complete waste management service for Oil & Gas companies in the UKCS. Our specialist areas: Drilling & Well Abandonment Waste Management NORM Detection, Containment, Decontamination & Disposal Onshore Decontamination Services including NORM Onshore Fluids Treatment Processing and Transfer of Hazardous/Non-Hazardous Waste Specialised Industrial Cleaning & Marine Services Safety is consistently at the forefront of how we operate our North Sea business. Our competent and multi-skilled personnel have an outstanding reputation for participation in our customers’ safety systems and have a full understanding of disciplines related to Oil & Gas waste management. We operate under a fully integrated management system, which is accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. Continual improvement is key to our development and how we operate. Over the past 10 years, Augean has supported a number of Operators in the Oil and Gas sector carrying out waste management services both on and offshore, on numerous contracted and ad-hoc projects. Having facilities strategically located adjacent to UK quayside ports puts us at the forefront of managing our customers waste providing a low carbon footprint.

Specialist Metal Recovery
Augean possesses deep expertise in understanding the chemical and physical interactions of waste materials, enabling us to apply the Waste Hierarchy effectively – prioritising re-use, recycling, recovery, and responsible disposal. Our approach aligns fully with the principles outlined in the Waste Framework Directive and is recognised as Best Available Techniques (BAT) in the Waste Treatment BREF, notably through the innovative use of one waste stream to treat another, exemplifying substitution principles. Our infrastructure is designed to maximise resource efficiency and minimise waste. By treating waste efficiently, we transform it into valuable resources that can be reused back into the industry, significantly reducing environmental impacts. This process is vital for sustainable waste management, helping to conserve finite resources and lower the negative effects of waste on the environment.

Specialist Industrial Services
Our Specialist Industrial Services team offers a vast range of expertise from tank to bund cleaning and decommissioning, as well as the cleaning of: + Anaerobic digestors + Storage tanks + Blue water facilities + Chemical / acid / glycol tanks + Grease tanks + Bitumen tanks + Sludge tanks and DAF plants + Fuel and effluent tanks
