STERILIZATION OF MEDICAL WASTE:
we manage waste, we close the safety loop

Hospitals and healthcare facilities produce large quantities of potentially infectious waste every day. A significant portion comes from operating rooms, specialist departments, and outpatient activities: contaminated materials that, by law, require specific disposal processes.

Hazardous medical waste presents multiple critical issues.
It poses a biological risk to healthcare workers and the community, requires complex management that ties up resources and personnel, and has a significant environmental impact, as it must be transported by specialized vehicles to incineration plants, often over long distances. In addition, it involves high disposal costs that place a significant burden on the budgets of healthcare facilities.

Servizi Italia offers healthcare facilities an innovative, efficient, and sustainable solution:
the sterilization of hazardous medical waste.

This process allows

transform infected waste into non-hazardous urban waste, which is easier and cheaper to dispose of;
significantly reduce management and disposal costs;
reduce biological risk and the responsibilities of healthcare management.

The result is a drastic reduction in the environmental impact of the entire waste management chain and optimization of temporary storage space.

Waste sterilization technology and process

The sterilization of medical waste is carried out using state-of-the-art equipment installed directly at the healthcare facility, in equipped containers or in dedicated spaces within the hospital.
The sterilization process is fully automated and involves several stages that ensure the complete inactivation of pathogens.

Collection and delivery of medical waste in special containers, followed by loading of the material into the sterilization plant.
Weighing and computerized management.
Sterilization to eliminate pathogens and shredding to reduce the volume of materials.
Collection of treated waste and disposal as unsorted municipal waste, followed by disposal through normal collection channels.

The system guarantees complete traceability of the process, recording and documenting each stage of treatment to ensure compliance with regulations and maximum safety.

Regulatory compliance in waste sterilization

The possibility of sterilizing medical waste, initially introduced on an emergency basis during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now officially regulated and represents a concrete and legitimate alternative to traditional disposal.

Servizi Italia guarantees full compliance of the process with current regulations and supports healthcare facilities in managing the related bureaucratic requirements, taking care of all regulatory aspects that could be complex for those who are not specialized in the sector.

Delegating the management of healthcare waste to a specialized operator also allows the healthcare facility to:

eliminate the risk of infection already within the hospital, reducing the exposure of healthcare workers;
focus on core care and treatment activities;
relieve themselves of direct responsibility for the management of hazardous materials;
lighten the regulatory burden on healthcare management, while ensuring full compliance with environmental and health regulations;
optimize the use of space thanks to volume reduction and digital stock management, making temporary storage areas more efficient.

Environmental and economic sustainability

The sterilization of medical waste represents an important step towards sustainability, with numerous environmental and economic benefits.

From an environmental perspective, this process enables a significant reduction in CO₂ emissions by eliminating long-distance transport.

Up to -80%
volume of waste

In addition, the technology used reduces waste volume (by up to 80%) and weight (by up to 25%), resulting in optimized storage space and a smaller overall ecological footprint.

Up to -40%
disposal costs

The economic benefits are equally significant: healthcare facilities can benefit from a reduction of up to 40% in disposal costs compared to traditional methods, thanks to the reclassification of waste from hazardous to municipal.

+ Optimization
– Logistics costs

Added to this are the optimization of internal resources dedicated to waste management and lower logistics costs related to temporary transport and storage.

A medium-sized hospital can produce up to 700 tons of hazardous medical waste annually: converting it into municipal waste means removing dozens of trucks loaded with hazardous material from the roads, with an immediate impact on public safety.

Collection and delivery of infectious medical waste

Verification of process effectiveness

Loading into the sterilization plant

On-site shredding and sterilization

Simplified disposal

Reclassification as unsorted municipal waste

The disposal cycle

Collection and delivery of infectious medical waste
Loading into the sterilization plant
On-site shredding and sterilization
Verification of process effectiveness
Reclassification as unsorted municipal waste
Simplified disposal

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