Medical waste repurposing

September 3, 2010

Outside the hospital setting, about 9 million people in the U.S. self-inject for conditions such as diabetes and allergies, producing 3 billion syringes per year that are discarded in non-health care settings like workplaces and homes.

Sharps Compliance Inc. has introduced the Waste Conversion Process to repurpose this waste into new products. The patent-pending process transforms discarded needles, syringes, lancets, and other medical waste into a new product called PELLA-DRX—clean, compact pellets that are used as raw material in the manufacture of industrial resources for everything from homes to highways and high-rise buildings. None of the medical waste processed goes to a landfill.

Sharps Compliance Inc. • 800-772-5657 • www.nolandfillsrequired.com