Outside the hospital setting, significant volumes of medical sharps are discarded daily in non-healthcare settings like homes, clinics and long term care facilities. Threats to public health and landfill saturation are resulting issues.
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Sharps Compliance Inc. (NASDAQ: SMED) is introducing their new ‘Waste Conversion Process,’ to deal with medical waste in an environmentally responsible way, repurposing the waste into new products:
Sharps will be unveiling its patent-pending GREEN Waste Conversion Process that cuts the volume of medical waste going into landfills by 100%. The process transforms discarded needles, syringes, lancets and other medical waste into a new product called PELLA-DRX – clean, compact pellets that are a raw material used in the manufacture of industrial resources, vital to everything from homes to highways and high-rise buildings. PELLA-DRX is ideally suited for energy intensive industries such as cement, lime, steel and power plants.
Sharps’ Waste Conversion Process and PELLA-DRX are designed to address these medical waste concerns. Absolutely none of the medical waste Sharps processes will ever go to a landfill. Instead it is repurposed into a raw material that becomes part of a new product. With Sharps ground-breaking conversion process, medical waste throughout the world can now become a sustainable product managed in the most effective, environmentally thoughtful means possible.
Comment from the Publisher:
Visit www.nolandfillsrequired.com for more information on this process. This is the first I have know about a process like this. From the casual observer this looks like it has real potential all around and a win-win for all involved, from protecting the waste material handlers, the hospitals, and the environment via the landfill.
