The biological effluent treatment plant is one of the largest in the UK and is located in Grangemouth within the Earls Gate Innovation Complex.
The treatment centre is part of the CalaChem group and sits in the former ICI pharmaceutical and dye manufacturing area.
The site currently accepts and treats waste acids, alkalis, effluents, glycols, brines, wet solvents, resins, paints, dyes, inks, detergents and mixed alcohols.
While previously it only accepted the waste in bulk by tanker, it can now accept them in packaged format.
The development is Phase 1 of a wider £1 million expansion, following the demolition of several manufacturing buildings.
Phase 2 has now begun and includes an application to SEPA to allow the site to accept a broader range of hazardous waste and, as such, become one of the largest transfer stations for special waste in Scotland and Northern England.
Stephen Green, Waste Transfer Station Account Manager at Earls Gate Waste Treatment, said: “Being able to offer our existing customers a disposal route for IBCs and drums gives them a one-stop shop for all their liquid aqueous waste, and we can get on with delivering a first-class service, treatment and disposal to both the waste and manufacturing sectors.
“Being right next door to Scotland’s largest container port and a major logistics hub, we are already in discussions with a customer who would like to bring waste to us by ship and discharge it into external tanks, ready for treatment through our process.
“This then allows us to deal with large bulk loads and control the throughput, whilst saving costs on haulage.
“Plans for the site are expansive, and Phase 3 will involve the latest technology in a tanker, barrel and ISO tank washout system, so anybody offloading on site can be cleaned out and head off for their next load, whilst we can service the tanks arriving at and leaving the port, bound for who knows where?”
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