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Metal Recycling Solutions 

Safe and Sustainable.
Our new green solution for
diversion of single-use devices 

 

As an industry leader in healthcare safety, Sharpsmart's metal recycling solutions are a proud reflection of our underscoring values. In the United Kingdom today, the highest percentage of sharps injuries occur in the OR and the highest volume of incinerating waste comes out of hospital operating theatres. As a green focused company, we are passionate about changing this!
 

 

 

Sharpsmart are specialists in sharps and surgical device management 

With specialisation in sharps containment and total healthcare waste management, Sharpsmart provides compliance and industry expertise in a simple and seamless service model. Designed for the collection of guidewires and single-use metal instruments such as scissors, forceps, dialators and speculums, scalpels and curettes, our metal waste recycling offering is specifically designed to reduce footprint and optimise segregation in an OR, orthoepedic or endoscopy environment whilst upholding the highest levels of safety. Current practice in the UK today sees many non sharp single-use metal instruments being deposited into non-metal waste streams that require incineration. With incineration being the most expensive method of treatment, there is not only a significant environmental impact but also a substantial cost impact to diverting waste from a high temperature incineration waste stream. 

 

Metal instruments (50%) and sharps waste (20%) contribute to around 70% of all incinerating waste in hospital operating theatres.
Study conducted at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based upon a study of sharps containers isolated and weighed from theatre departments

What can be diverted into the MR64?

GUIDEWIRES

SINGLE USE METAL INSTRUMENTS 

SINGLE USE MEDICAL DEVICES 

A new frontier in safe and cost effective metal device collection

IMMEDIATE COST REDUCTION

Increase the yield of surgical devices collected by up to 70%, delivering greater buy-back opportunity for reprocessed devices

POINT OF USE DISPOSAL

Save time and labour by disposing and segregating waste at point of generation. Mobile, hands-free and secure containment. 

WIDE OPENING

MR64 collectors feature a wide opening with tall, vertical design for the safe deposition of long or bulky single-use metal instruments

MINIMISE INFECTION TRANSFER

Collectors are cleaned through a 6-stage robotic washing process after each use to ensure full decontamination and sanitisation.

REUSABLE AND ECO FRIENDLY

The reusability and the diversion of waste from high temperature incineration delivers a super green result!! 

SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE

Sharpsmart collectors are designed with inbuilt secure locking systems and are standards approved, leak-proof and penetration resistant.