Industries
Permits, impact studies, odour and leachate monitoring, and circular economy advisory for landfills, recycling facilities and waste service providers.
Industry overview
Waste management companies and recyclers sit at the centre of Saudi Arabia's shift toward a circular economy. Landfills, transfer stations, material recovery facilities, composting sites, waste-to-energy plants and specialist recyclers of tyres, oils, plastics, metals and construction waste all operate under the Waste Management Law and regulations administered by the National Center for Waste Management (MWAN), and under the Environmental Law and its Implementing Regulations for environmental permits and monitoring.
These facilities have environmental aspects of their own: odour, dust and litter; landfill gas and leachate; fire risk in stockpiles; process emissions from shredding, treatment or thermal processes; wastewater from washing and processing; and residues that still need final disposal. Because they handle other organisations' waste, they also carry heavy record-keeping and traceability duties.
Licensing, contract tenders and investor due diligence increasingly look at both compliance and the environmental benefit the operation delivers. Operators that can show measured diversion rates, emission reductions and clean compliance records are better placed to win contracts and financing.
Environmental challenges
New and expanding facilities need waste licences and environmental permits, often supported by impact assessment and detailed operating plans.
Waste reception, composting and stockpiles can create odour and dust that lead to complaints and enforcement if not monitored and controlled.
Landfills must control and monitor leachate, groundwater and landfill gas throughout operation and after closure.
Operators must document what they receive, process, sell and dispose of, with records that reconcile across the chain of custody.
Clients and investors want measured recycling rates, avoided emissions and output quality rather than general statements.
Typical requirements
Requirements vary by activity, location and permit conditions. We confirm the applicable requirements for your project at the start of every engagement.
How Selorin supports
We prepare environmental studies, operating plans and permit packages that support waste licences and environmental permit applications.
We monitor odour, dust, air, leachate, groundwater and landfill gas and report results against permit conditions.
We prepare environmental management plans and run compliance reviews of operations, records and traceability systems.
We quantify diversion rates, material recovery and avoided emissions to support tenders, investor reporting and circular economy strategies.
Construction and operating permits, renewals and modifications — from permit strategy and document preparation to submission and responses to authority comments.
Key benefit: Fewer resubmissions and a clearer path to permit decisions
Screening, scoping, baseline studies, impact analysis and mitigation, prepared as an EIA report ready for authority review and follow-up comments.
Key benefit: A defensible EIA that keeps your approval path predictable
Ongoing compliance management: obligation registers, inspection readiness, responses to regulatory notices and violations, and corrective action plans that close gaps.
Key benefit: Lower exposure to violations and operational disruption
Ambient air quality monitoring for gases, particulates and meteorology, plus stack emissions measurement, with validated data and compliance-ready reports.
Key benefit: Clear evidence of air quality performance for permits and stakeholders
Sampling and monitoring of effluent, treated wastewater, groundwater and seawater, with on-site measurements, laboratory coordination and compliance reporting.
Key benefit: Confidence that discharges and reuse meet permit conditions
Design and delivery of multi-media environmental monitoring programmes: sampling plans, field work, laboratory coordination, data QA/QC and periodic compliance reports.
Key benefit: Defensible environmental data that keeps permit reporting on track
Material flow analysis, waste reduction, reuse and recycling opportunities, by-product valorisation, and a circular economy strategy with a prioritised roadmap.
Key benefit: Lower material losses and new value from existing resource flows
Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions inventories prepared under the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064-1, with documented methods and verification-ready records.
Key benefit: An emissions baseline you can report, verify and reduce
Construction and operational environmental management plans that define mitigation, monitoring, responsibilities and KPIs for contractors and operators.
Key benefit: Approval commitments translated into practical, auditable site controls
Typically a waste management licence from MWAN and an environmental permit, which may require an environmental study depending on scale and process. Industrial city or municipal requirements may also apply. We map the approval path for your facility at the start.
We combine site surveys, odour source identification, meteorological data and, where relevant, measurement of indicator gases at the boundary. The aim is to link odour episodes to specific activities so controls can be targeted.
Yes. Using recognised methods, we compare the emissions of your recycling process with the disposal and virgin material production it replaces, and document assumptions clearly so the figures can be defended in tenders and reports.
Share your project details and an environmental specialist will review your requirements.