Stericycle is committed to protecting our team members, our customer's people and patients, and the environment. We strive to achieve this is everything we do. We use our knowledge to develop the most environmental friendly services for our customers and willingly share our regulatory expertise with them.

Stericycle puts great emphasis on environmental education and training for both our team members and our customers. We help customers understand the benefits of segregating waste streams, minimizing their waste generation, and properly disposing of their non-medical or toxic waste materials, such as mercury and pharmaceutical waste.

We are helping more and more of our customers segregate their waste streams, which reduces the need for incineration. We have been able to close several incinerator facilities. Currently, about 9% of Stericycle's U.S. treatment capacity includes incineration, down from more than 30% in 2001.

We developed a patented Electro Thermal Deactivation (ETD) treatment system that is safe and clean and helps to protect the environment. The ETD process uses an oscillating field of low-frequency radio waves to heat the waste to temperatures that destroy pathogens without melting any plastic content. The ETD process doesn't produce regulated air or water emissions, and it renders medical waste unrecognizable and thus more acceptable for landfills. It also reduces waste volume.