For long, the common approach in the industry was to "run" the solid control equipment with no focus on their performance and efficiency, furthermore, no real emphasis was put to the Drilling Waste Cuttings as they were dumped. Treating them was considered as unnecessary expense rather than an investment for the future,
Yet, this picture has been changing in the recent years with more corporations adopting more strict environmental policies and with more countries adopting more rigid environmental laws as a result to the increasing general public pressure to save our environment to the next generations.
As a result, the solid control equipment efficiency became the first factor to be considered upon designing any waste management program while the rest of the process can be explained in the below "Standard Waste Management Invert Triangle'' that became the ''reference'' for almost all Waste Management companies in designing and executing any program.