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Sharps Compliance launches waste conversion process

Company aims to eliminate landfilled sharps and syringes via a process that sterilizes the waste, then shreds and pelletizes it into a new product used for industrial applications.

SHARPS CONTAINERS. Post-industrial (with some post-consumer) HDPE containers are used to contain and ship medical sharps and sy
SHARPS CONTAINERS. Post-industrial (with some post-consumer) HDPE containers are used to contain and ship medical sharps and sy
Sharps Compliance Corp

Sharps estimates that 9 million individuals in the U.S. self-inject, producing more than 3 billion syringes annually. And that doesn’t include the syringes, needles, lancets, and unused medications generated outside of the hospital at large healthcare facilities, such as professional offices, clinics, and emergency preparedness locations.

“Sharps’ Waste Conversion Process and PELLA-DRX are designed to address these medical waste concerns. None of the medical waste we process will ever go to a landfill,” says Dr. Burton Kunik, Sharps’ chairman and CEO. “Instead, it is repurposed into a raw material that becomes part of a new product. With our conversion process, medical waste throughout the world can now become a sustainable product managed in the most effective, environmentally thoughtful way possible. Our process renders medical waste to be as sterile as sterile medical instruments. We’re not just reducing the amount of medical waste being sent to landfills; we’re completely eliminating it.”

The company’s Web site states that its “strategy is to capture a large part of the estimated $2 billion untapped market for used syringes and unused medical waste outside of hospital and large healthcare settings by targeting the major agencies that are interrelated with this medical waste stream—the U.S. government, pharmaceutical manufacturers, home healthcare providers, retail pharmacies and clinics, and the professional market comprised of physicians, dentists, and veterinary practices.”

The company’s flagship product, the Sharps® Recovery System™, is available on its Web site and is used to dispose of medical waste such as hypodermic needles, lancets, and any other medical device or object used to puncture or lacerate the skin (sharps). The Sharps®MWMS™ (Medical Waste Management System) is for emergency preparedness programs.

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