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title: "UK company starts new raman/unknown chemical hazmat service"
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date: "2026-07-30T21:15:11+00:00"
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#  UK company starts new raman/unknown chemical hazmat service

 Written by Gwyn Winfield on 22 July 2024.

A waste management specialist has introduced a new ground-breaking service to identify unlabelled chemicals, allowing for safe disposal. [CSG ](https://www.csg.co.uk)has become the first waste management company in the UK to invest in a handheld Raman spectrometer, helping businesses and organisations which produce chemical wastes to operate safely and meet their legal obligations. Previously the only way to identify the contents of an unlabelled chemical container was to open it for sampling and analysis. CSG has invested in a Raman spectrometer which enables accurate, through-barrier identification of hazardous chemicals at customers’ sites, without the need for containers to be opened.

CSG or one of its trusted partners can then arrange to dispose of the chemicals compliantly and safely. Dr Stuart Atkinson, who leads the Lab Chemical Waste Collection Team at CSG, said: “We are proud to be leading the industry in providing a solution to our customers for this common problem by making the unknown, known. “It’s inevitable that companies that produce hazardous waste end up with containers without proper labels, which can happen for many reasons including the label simply falling off.”

Dr Stuart added: “We were recently able to use the Raman spectrometer at a university where we found 244 small containers of unknown chemicals. We completed the job in just three days, correctly identifying the unknown substances for disposal with very high levels of accuracy. “We believe there are many containers of unknown chemicals across the country and we are expecting huge demand for this new service.”

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