ON-SITE TREATMENT TRENDS 

Driven By Concerns Over Infectious Waste Transport

Stringent new regulations on treating medical waste have forced hospitals to explore alternative technologies for processing their bio-hazardous waste. The conventional off-site service model is being challenged by a renewed institutional interest in on-site technologies that are proving to be increasingly more cost effective while at the same time addressing concerns associated with national emergency/pandemic preparedness. By reducing their dependence upon outside service providers, hospitals choosing to use on-site technologies are addressing these major issues contained within the US National Emergency Preparedness Plan...

...Many healthcare facilities have been inspired to process their infectious waste on-site in order to more responsibly safeguard their local communities while controlling their operating costs. The environmental and sociological challenges of today offer new complexity for the healthcare community requiring operating protocols to appropriately deal with emergency/pandemic preparedness while still exercising ongoing fiscal responsibility. Within the healthcare segment, there is a developing consensus that treating infectious waste at the point of generation is the methodology allowing facilities to accomplish both of these social and fiscal goals.