Development of a novel system for medical waste

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This project offers a new solution to reduce the cost, environmental impact and hazardsassociated with disposal of hypodermic syringes and other medical ‘sharps’. The solutioninvolves development of a novel variant of the PyroPure technology. PyroPure is a unique,innovative, micro-scale waste disposal and energy recovery system. The variant to bedeveloped will have a suitable capacity and performance characteristics for installation athospitals to process medical sharps waste.The developed PyroPure system will be coupled with developments to the containers used tohold waste sharps in order to reduce the overall costs involved substantially whilst enablingthe recovery of metal and energy from the process.This global market for this solution in hospitals is estimated at £600 million and there aresubstantial export opportunities including countries that lack medical waste handlinginfrastructure. Hence this will contribute to reducing the high levels of infections in suchcountries caused by needles that have not been fully sterilised and destroyed.