Overview

 

Our commitment to customer service has made us what we are today, one of the country's largest and most respected handlers of radioactive waste!

 

Features/Benefits 
1. Supplies: Everything you need to correctly package radioactive waste is provided. Drums, liners, approved absorbents, lime, etc. 1. Saves you time in placing orders and receiving separate shipments, as well as money savings in your indirect costs and through our volume purchases.
 

2. Labeling and Paperwork: All shipping and disposal manifests and labeling of drums are completed, or checked, by our technicians at the time of pickup.

 

  

2. Gives extra quality assurance and aids in double checking regulatory compliance.

 

3. Trained and Helpful Personnel: Our pickup personnel are more than truck drivers. Each is also a trained and certified disposal technician, knowledgeable in packaging procedures, labeling and NRC/DOT requirements, and in safe loading, bracing and transporting of radioactive waste.

 

3. Provides effective help with your radioactive waste pickups and gives confidence in proper handling of each load.

  

4. Technical Back-up: Our Technical Services personnel and health physics personnel at ADCO headquarters are readily available for phone consultation on any question or unusual problems.  

 

4. Provides assurance of comprehensive service to meet all your radioactive waste needs.

 

5. Written Instructions & Special Services: We provide comprehensive written instructions for proper packaging and labeling of radioactive waste by your personnel. Alternately, we can arrange to package the waste for your facility, if this special service is requested for quote.

5. Aids in training your personnel and keeping current with changing requirements. Offers flexibility for special needs.

6. Experience: ADCO Services, Inc. has not only been in the radioactive disposal business for thirty-eight years, but also has provided these unique services to some of the most prestigious names in research, medicine and industry throughout the United States, from the smallest to the largest.

6. Wide ranging experience means more practical understanding of your particular situation, as contrasted with disposal groups who specialize in segmented markets or only in large volumes or projects.

 

7. Legalities: Because we take title to your waste when it is loaded on our truck, it is our responsibility. This may not be the case with your present method. You could totally liable for the waste during transportation or interim storage stages, until accepted at a Nuclear Disposal Site.

7.Eliminated liability during the most vulnerable (transport) stage in the eventual disposal of your radioactive waste is a very practical benefit.

8. Licenses and Permits: ADCO Services is fully licensed by the State of Illinois and the USNRC. We are also hazardous waste permitted in all states we serve.

 

8. This provides full confidence that all required licenses and permits are in order. Most chemical waste transporters or disposal firms are not licensed for transport of radioactive waste or "mixed waste". And not all radioactive firms are permitted for "mixed waste" transport in all states.

9. Insurance: All statutory required vehicular insurances, workmen's compensation insurance, general liability insurance and premises insurances.

9. Full coverage insurance gives peace of mind that all phases of handling and transporting your radioactive waste are covered.

 

10. Unbeatable Value and Economy: Because of our size, the volume of the waste we handle and our overhead controls, we have always been one of the lowest priced disposal services in the entire United States.

 

 

10. The bottom line of total costs is always important in budgets. We work with you to deliver the best possible services and value at the most attractive prices.

 

11. Attractive Terms and Billing: Our terms are designed to save you even more one, with a 2% discount offered for payments made within 10 days of the invoice date. And you are billed only AFTER pickup of waste or delivery of supplies. Plus, you are billed only for what was picked up or delivered.

 

11. Giving attention to details that can save you money, time or bother do add up in providing an overall most effective and valuable service. It also shows our positive attitude toward customer service.

 

 

12. Supplies: Full line of packaging supplies, fiberboard boxes, drums, absorbents, labels, manifests. We have it all!

 

  

12. Allows “one-stop-shopping”.