Whether in the firehouse or at home, having to clean up others’ messes is sure to draw ire and sharp comments. But for more than 17 years, a Los Angeles-based company has jumped at the chance to do just that. And these aren’t your dishes-left-in-the-sink variety mess.

Action Cleanup Environmental Services offers comprehensive environmental solutions through industrial cleaning, emergency response services, confined space/rescue, civil and environmental construction/ demolition, and hazardous waste management services.

The company is a licensed contractor and a certified minority business enterprise, a small business enterprise, and a disadvantaged business enterprise. Action Cleanup has 40 employees and operates across Southern California and Nevada. The staff is trained to the hazmat specialist level, and the company has a fleet of specialized environmental and heavy equipment valued at more than $4 million.

Action Cleanup’s services include, hydro excavation, graffiti removal, confined space rescue (24/7), homeless encampment bio-waste removal, vector control, environmental remediation, hazardous materials characterization and waste management, 24-hour emergency response service, high-hazard level A capabilities, transport liquid and solid bulk materials, industrial cleaning, mercury cleanup and tank cleaning.

The company uses a combination of comprehensive environmental solutions and specialized staff to process, transport and dispose of virtually any type of hazardous waste.

The company says its biggest win was becoming the leading provider of emergency response services to the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans. Action Cleanup’s employees train quarterly and will also train with the California Specialized Training Institute.

Their biggest challenge is trying to navigate the ever-changing environmental landscape.