Talos Hazardous Waste Disposal

We run a small print shop and the back room had become a dumping ground for things we weren't allowed to throw out. Cans of ink solvent, a crate of old batteries, and boxes of light tubes sitting there since before I started. I'm not the person who knows the rules on any of that, so I described it over the phone and let them tell me what was possible. They had a plan by the same week, turned up carrying their own drums and had everything loaded roughly five hours from when they pulled in. Nothing got left behind and nothing needed a second visit. I can use that room again and that's more than I could say for the last couple of years. Talos Hazardous Waste Disposal did all of it and I still do not know the rules.

• House & garage cleanouts
• Mattress removal & disposal

Everything about the pickup was low key, and low key was all I wanted. Four hours on site, two people, and no questions I could not answer. They did not push extra services at us or pad the list. Talos Hazardous Waste Disposal has our next clear out already booked.

• Price assessment: Great price
• Services: House & garage cleanouts, Mattress removal & disposal

• Construction debris removal
• Trash removal & disposal

The team took a load of paint waste that had been sitting behind our building since before I started here. I called on a Monday and it was on a truck by the end of that week! No lecture about what I should have done differently, just a clear list of what they needed and a date.

• Price assessment: Great price
• Services: Construction debris removal, Trash removal & disposal

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Paint waste and old solvent were stacking up faster than our production schedule allowed us to think about them. That is the sort of thing that gets ignored until an inspector asks, and then it is suddenly an emergency. The office answered every question I had about what could go on a single manifest and what needed its own profile, and when I got something wrong they corrected it without making a lesson of it. The truck arrived inside the slot they promised and the driver checked every container against the list before anything moved. He caught one our own team had mislabeled and fixed the paperwork on the spot. The storage bay is usable again and the monthly walkthrough is a quick look now.

Called them about a batch of smoke detectors we pulled out during a lighting retrofit. Talos took the whole lot and the ballasts that came out with them, and they didn't make me split it into two pickups the way the last outfit did. half a day on site, all of it documented before the truck left. the tech knew their own rules cold and didn't need me hovering over the process.

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Reached out to Talos when we needed a load of old ballasts and bulbs cleared out. That first call was painless, they went over what they accept and sent us a quote. They scheduled us inside a few days, pick up was right on time. Their tech dealt with all manifests so our disposal records arrived in good order. It all kept moving without me chasing anyone down. Good people for this type of commercial clean out.

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Our manufacturing site had a load of old fluorescent bulbs, ballasts and a couple exit signs that needed to go. Talos came out and cleared all of it and gave us the disposal records for our compliance files. What I liked was they knew exactly what category everything fell into without me having to explain. Being in Jackson it was good to find a company that only does this hazardous side of things and does it properly. Pickup ran right on schedule and the guys handling it didnt need anything explained. No stress on our end getting rid of stuff we couldn't just throw out.

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solid vendor. used Talos for a load of old ballasts, some pharma waste, and a few drums of corrosive liquid. all on one pickup. driver was sharp, knew what he was doing with the segregation. manifests came through quick. nothing exciting to report which is exactly what i want

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we had a situation. couple of old radioactive sources from a decommissioned gauge that were sitting in a locked cabinet for years because nobody knew the right way to get rid of them. called around. most places either didnt handle sources at all or wanted to pass us off to a sub-contractor. Talos actually had a process for it. they walked our safety officer through the documentation we needed on our end, coordinated the transport licensing piece, and got the sources out of our facility. took a few weeks because of the paperwork involved which they were upfront about from day one. no surprises along the way, just steady updates. also took some low-level DAW we had been generating from another part of the operation on the same pickup which made the logistics easier

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Our facility had accumulated quite a bit of e-waste and spent fluorescent tubes over the past couple years. We kept pushing the disposal off because it seemed like it would be a regulatory hassle. Eventually our safety manager started looking into vendors and Talos came up. They sent someone out to assess what we had and gave us a quote within a few days. The actual pickup was scheduled about two weeks later and took maybe half a day. All the manifests and disposal records showed up in our inbox pretty quickly after that. Not the kind of thing you think about often but glad it's handled now.