Sustainability, Responsibility, Integrity, Expertise
United's goal is to assist and support our clients in recovering, recycling, and re-using to extend the lifecycle of industrial materials throughout the northeast.
United Oil Recovery, Inc. (“United”) is a privately owned company that employs more than two hundred fifty men and women at seven locations in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The company owns and operates a fleet of more than 150 waste transportation vehicles including vacuum trucks, tank trucks, tractor trailers, box trucks, vans and other specialty vehicles. United’s range of environmental services provides complete and cost-effective waste materials management supported by fast-action response and world-class customer service. After initial transport, United manages recovery and recycling of waste in one of its regionally dispersed facilities utilizing the most state-of-the-art environmental technologies including many unique and cutting-edge procedures and devices.
United was formed in 1976 in Meriden, Connecticut, and was incorporated in 1982. United Industrial Services is a registered trade name of United Oil Recovery, Inc.
Our Facilities
United owns and operates RCRA Part B treatment storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) in Meriden and Bridgeport, CT, Stoughton, MA and Cohoes, NY. The company operates transfer and storage facilities in Northboro, MA and Newington, NH. The main office, fleet maintenance and fabrication facilities are located in Meriden, CT.
Our Services
United is in the business of transportation, storage and treatment of various hazardous and regulated wastes. The United field service division performs confined space entry such as cleaning of tanks, oil/water separators, hydro excavation, and hydro blasting and remediation projects including excavation. The Emergency Spill Response Team is on call 24 hours/day, 7 days/week to respond to spills and emergency releases in New England and New York. Our trained personnel, facilities, and equipment located throughout the northeast provide rapid deployment of the proper equipment to insure environmentally appropriate and cost-effective response. Norlite Corporation, a United subsidiary, incinerates hazardous waste as fuel in the production of high quality lightweight aggregate. The Norlite facility meets or exceeds full compliance with the most recent Federal Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards.
United’s Waste Analysis Plan requires that all material being delivered to a United facility must be sampled and analyzed prior to shipment. United’s state-of-the-art laboratories assign a specific profile to each generator for their material. The profile determines the proper shipping, storage, and treatment or recycling options for the product. Waste accepted at a United facility is analyzed at an on-site laboratory before the truck is off-loaded in order to verify that the material matches the profile and meets the permit criteria. All waste characterization data is available to generators.
United is committed to providing new and innovative services to its industrial base to complement the transportation, treatment and recycling services that have been United’s expertise for over thirty years. United is a corporate member of the National Brownfields Association and the CT Green Building Council, and is performing work in remedial projects and bulk industrial solid waste removal and transportation.
Our Employees
United employees receive hazardous material handling and confined space entry training, including respiratory protection, decontamination, and personal protective equipment use. Annual training includes confined space rescue. More than fifty of United’s field service employees have received 40-hour OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (HAZWOPER) certification. Training and consulting services are also utilized by our clients.
United complies with Federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) requirements and is a corporate member of the New England and the Connecticut Minority Supplier Diversity Councils.
Our History
In 1929, The Carabetta family formed Carabetta Florist on Gracey Avenue in Meriden, Connecticut. Throughout the 1960s this complex was one of the largest horticultural establishments in New England. This business was operated throughout two generations. Rapidly increasing oil prices in the 1970s forced the development and innovative concept of converting steam generators utilized in heating the agricultural complex to use waste petroleum products. United Waste Oil was formed in 1976 in Meriden, Connecticut to collect these products containing thermal value for what was later known as recycling.
The year 1976 also marked the adoption of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Using their knowledge developed in processing used oil for the greenhouses, George Carabetta and his sons, (now in its third generation), decided to apply for permits under RCRA to transport, store, and treat waste oil and hazardous waste. The company applied for and obtained an Interim Status permit in 1980 for the operation of a transfer, storage, treatment, and disposal facility at the site of the greenhouses in Meriden, CT. In 1982, the EPA inquired about the possibility of taking part in a national research program for the development of specifications for used oil burners. The Carabetta family, as well as the EPA, gained tremendous knowledge from this project.
In 1989, the Carabetta family anticipated the need for increasing their waste treatment and recycling capabilities to meet the growing demand for safe, cost-effective, cradle-to-grave waste services. The agricultural complex on Gracey Ave was replaced with an indoor, state-of-the-art treatment facility that utilized several treatment trains for various types of treatment. In 1993, this unique treatment complex again took part in an EPA project to develop what is now known as the CWT regulations. At this time, United was chosen as one of six facilities in the country to establish the best available technology in the treatment of various types of waste water generated from petroleum and industrial sources.
Acquisitions
In 1993, United Oil Recovery, Inc. purchased a TSDF facility and an oil storage facility in Bridgeport, CT.
In 1995, United Oil Recovery, Inc. purchased a facility in Cohoes, NY (Norlite Corp.) that is permitted to incinerate various organics while utilizing the energy in the production of lightweight aggregate. This endeavor allowed United to promote cradle to grave destruction of materials generated from our customers and treatment plants with the end result being a building material.
In 1996, United Oil Recovery, Inc. purchased the assets of a Connecticut company to expand its transportation division transporting liquid and solid hazardous and regulated wastes. This acquisition gave United Oil Recovery, Inc. the capability of providing roll off containers for solid waste.
In 2000, United Oil Recovery, Inc. acquired Zecco, Inc., a transfer and storage facility in Northboro, MA. This acquisition allowed the expansion of our field service division in the northeast.
In 2001, United Oil Recovery, Inc. acquired a TSDF, Environmental Compliance Corporation (“ECC”), in Stoughton, MA and the assets of Total Waste Management (“TWM”) in Newington, NH with facility permits for transfer and storage, including a dock for the transfer of hazardous materials in drums.
New Directions
From its beginning in 1976, United has been committed to a sustainability in industry, technology, and society. United’s contribution includes the environmentally responsible collection and management of waste streams and the utilization of a recycled fuel source in the manufacture of lightweight aggregate - an efficient and green building material used in the construction of more energy efficient and sustainable buildings and civic projects. More than thirty years later, United is leading new efforts to improve water quality and promote recycling of electronic waste.
United’s F.O.G. Services, LLC division is working with municipalities, restaurants, and large commercial kitchens to separate, collect and recycle fats, oils and greases that had been previously discharged into municipal water systems. United is now one of the northeast’s leading collectors of specialty wastes, including lamps and certain electronic waste. Construction is now underway for new biological wastewater pretreatment at United’s Meriden, CT facility. This new process will allow United to accept and treat wastewater streams while utilizing the byproduct for agricultural needs.
Our continued commitment to reinvestment will enable continued innovation to serve the disposal needs of our community.
Contact United for more information on how we can assist you in your goals for sustainable development.
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