Business View Magazine | September 2019

319 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 strategies are considered ones that not only reduce the volume of hazardous waste but also the operator’s liability and, in most cases, the overall cost of generating nuclear energy. UniTech’s “Reduce • Reuse • Recycle” strategy is being implemented by their multiple facilities across North America, the United Kingdom, and Central Europe which offer the Nuclear Industry unique and wide-ranging product and services (i.e. custom radiation surveys, launderable inventory, product development, and fleet-wide service management) and the ability to tap into the decades of UniTech technical and operational experience when seeking further waste reduction opportunities. “There’s so much background on this whole industry, but the magnitude of what we’ve done is easy to measure,” says Anderson. “With only the items we’ve washed and kept out of the trash can, we’ve been able to eliminate 6.7 million pounds of what would have been radioactive waste in the last 15 years for Canada, as a whole. With the different projects that we’ve worked on, and because we keep track of all these things, we know what the single-use cost of those garments are. We know what the radioactive waste cost is per item. We also know what our customers spend on laundry and how many items of theirs we’ve washed. The fact is that not only have we eliminated 3,350 tons of radioactive waste, which is a politically charged topic, but we’ve also cut over $90 million of bottom-line savings to the utilities. In our business, I think that’s a big number.” UNI TECH SERV I CES GROUP