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Looking for a single vendor to handle all waste streams?

With over 30 years of experience serving university hospitals, laboratories and medical research facilities, Sharpsmart is focused on delivering solutions that make sense from all standpoints of safety, sustainability, cost effectiveness and compliance.

Industry experts in the regulatory compliance and governance of collecting, transporting and treating all hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams including GMO, clinical, anatomical and chemical waste, Sharpsmart eliminates the need for multiple vendors. With a range of engineered containment systems that have been developed in partnership with healthcare professionals to achieve optimum safety, indestructability, liquid containment and movement efficiency, and a comprehensive national service model that enables customised solutions for each facility we work with… we don’t just deliver an efficient and compliant waste service, we deliver a partnership that radically optimises the safety, labour, cost efficiencies and green ratings of your facility.

Our waste service approach for laboratories includes:

  • Managing costs associated with sharps, GMO, anatomical, cytotoxic, pharmaceutical and chemical waste
  • Delivering compliance expertise in the handling and transport of hazardous wastes
  • Conducting a full needs analysis to understand your facility and any factors impacting collection, storage or transport of waste
  • Providing comprehensive training and education platforms to ensure all staff who come into contact with waste are informed
  • Delivering an end-to-end commitment to sustainability and compliance, and monitoring performance and costs throughout the contract lifetime

Safe, Ecological and Cost-minimising waste solutions for Laboratories, Universities and Research Facilities

Safety-Designed Medical Waste Systems

Safety isn’t restricted to Sharps Containers

We need to get back to the fact that we’re working in a clinical environment where staff and patient safety should be the number one priority. At Sharpsmart, we have designed all of our containment systems – sharps, cytotoxic, offensive and infectious clinical waste, and pharmaceutical waste, to achieve the highest standard of safety, clinical design and efficiency in the industry. Hands-free access, smart security locks, clean aesthetics, robotic washing process that achieves 100% sanitisation, and clear colour coding for effective segregation. Our staff, our products, and our healthcare waste management solutions are clinically focused to meet the unique needs of healthcare.

A Unique Approach to Infection Risk Minimisation

Our solutions to combat infection risk include:

  • Point-of-use system for segregating waste at the point waste is generated, eliminating need for secondary touches
  • Hands-free Sharpsmart sharps container system clinically proven to reduce needlestick injuries and occupational risk
  • Container mounting and movement systems that eliminate cross-contamination and hand-contact with waste bins or waste bags
  • Collection, Storage and transport solutions that ensure containers are never exposed to ground cross-contamination
  • Our industry-leading Vacsmart system that vacuum seals contaminated wastes and ensures outbreak containment
  • Robotic container washing and sanitisation process that achieves a 6log bacterial load reduction, the highest in the industry!

Clean, Sanitised Clinical Waste Containers

We know it’s almost an oxymoron, but let us explain how Sharpsmart is leading the industry in its clean container movement…

We clean after use. That’s right… when your clinical waste container gets filled we don’t just put another bag in it and hope that someone in the next few months will clean the container. We take it away and the container gets cleaned through our state-of-the-art robotic washing machine. Made with over 15,000 parts, Sharpsmarts’ mechanical washline feeds each reusable container through a 6 stage washing and quality control process, achieving a 6log bacterial load – the highest ever recorded in a bin-washing technology. At Sharpsmart we take contamination and infection risk seriously; whether it’s a sharps, cytotoxic or pharmaceutical waste container, with Sharpsmart its hygiene will be guaranteed.

Is the “Sharpsmart Difference” just a clever marketing phrase?

“Different” is often subjective – a different perspective, a different approach, a different focus, vision or personal preference. For us at Sharpsmart, DIFFERENCE embodies all these things, but it also delivers a very different result. Reduction in needlestick injuries, reduction in waste volumes, reduction in costs, reduction in labour, increase in efficiencies, compliance, trust. We don’t promise a different methodology, we promise transformation of your current practices.

Our Environmental Focus Puts Prevention First

Our staff, our processes and our sub-contractor partnerships are all performance-driven against the waste hierarchy. Our focus is first on prevention and doing everything within our control to minimise environmental impact.

  • Responsible utilisation of water and energy consumption in transport and container processing
  • Reusable product and containment that minimise CO2 emissions and manufacturing requirement
  • Green-friendly energy-efficient technology with low-temperature treatment
  • Integrated approach to waste management that examines the full life cycle of the waste journey

The most innovative and cost-effective Research & Laboratory waste solutions in the UK

  • IMMEDIATE COST REDUCTION

    Sharpsmart’s unique services deliver substantial cost savings. Our reusable containers eliminate the purchasing, assembly and disposal costs of boxes and disposable containers, removing a significant cost surplus from your clinical waste management.

  • FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING

    With containment systems to suit all locations and volume requirements, and flexible service scheduling to cater for each customers’ waste volume requirements, Sharpsmart ensures minimum disruption to your facility.

  • SPACE OPTIMISATION

    Sharpsmart’s container mounting and movement accessories enable sharps and clinical waste containers to be positioned at point of care with flexible options for wall mounting, bench mounting or mobile trolleys to wheel containers in and out of laboratory environments.

  • CLEAR TRANSPARENT PRICING

    With Sharpsmart, you can know exactly what you are paying. With no hidden costs, no automatic price increases or contract renewals, and transparent customer service, we position ourselves as a partner rather than a provider.

  • REUSABLE AND ECO FRIENDLY

    Choosing reusable containers dramatically reduces the volume of plastic and cardboard being disposed of in landfill, together with lessening CO2 emissions by the elimination of manufacturing and destruction.

  • SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE

    Experts in navigating the complexities of waste management regulations, Sharpsmart partners with healthcare facilities to ensure compliant practices are achieved through all waste handling practices, and facility risk exposure is minimised.

“I would recommend Sharpsmart…”

We have used Sharpsmart’s reusable sharps containers since 2004 and have always been given a great service. We have just engaged Sharpsmart for total waste management and are hoping to showcase the Trust for the sustainable waste management practices we have achieved in partnership with Sharpsmart.

Steve Bell, Waste Manager

James Cook University Hospital

“Sharpsmart unrivalled for safety…”

You have discovered a great engineering safety device that is in the process of sweeping the nation.

Mike Smucker, Environmental Services

Kishwaukee Community Hospital, USA

“Willing to go the extra mile..”

Sharpsmart’s service is excellent; their staff have a strong knowledge of clinical waste management and are always willing to go the extra mile to assist in any operational issues on site

Louise Wood, Estates Officer

Cumberland Infirmary

“Reduced Clinical waste by 58%…”

From switching over to the Sharpsmart system: in a 12-month period, we reduced our clinical waste by 58%. That in turn saved our organisation nearly £7,500

Steve Egbert, CHESP, General Manager

Sodexo, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center

“Always there to help…”

The Sharpsmart team are committed to us as a customer and are a pleasure to deal with. I would highly recommend them.

Sandra Fenwick, Waste Officer

Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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