The question
What you actually need to know. “What is this?” and “is this fit to go back into a system?” are different questions and are answered differently.
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Technical testing and analysis
Technical testing and analysis is the third classification recorded against the company. In this trade it is rarely an academic exercise: it is the step that decides whether the rest of a job is straightforward or complicated.
Why it comes first
A label is a claim, not a fact
Containers get refilled. Systems get topped up with whatever was to hand. Labels fade, peel, or describe what went in twenty years ago rather than what is in there now. A charge that has been sitting in a decommissioned system may be contaminated, mixed, or perfectly serviceable, and there is no way to tell by looking.
That matters because almost every subsequent decision depends on the answer. Whether a material can be reused. Which route it has to take if it cannot. What has to be written on the paperwork. What can and cannot legally be done with it. Guessing at that stage is how a small job becomes an expensive one.
Scope
What an analysis enquiry needs
The sample
What the material is held in, how much of it there is, and whether it can be sampled safely where it currently sits.
The use
What the result is for — a compliance record, a decision about reuse, a disposal route, or an insurer or auditor asking a question.
The scope of any analysis, what it will and will not establish, and the form the result takes are set out in writing before the work is agreed. If a question cannot properly be answered by the analysis proposed, that is said plainly rather than worked around.
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Raise it as an enquiry
Photographs of the container and of any label, however unhelpful the label looks, are worth more than a paragraph of description.
Where to send it
Use the enquiry form, or write to the registered office.