Protect your brand and create a safer work environment by offering your customers and employees a convenient solution to safely dispose needles used from self-injected medications.
In a recent survey, 38% of respondents1 have disposed of used sharps in public trash cans because there were no safe disposal containers nearby and they had no other choice. Protect your staff from accidental needlestick injuries when cleaning restrooms and removing trash.
Protect the environment through responsible disposal, ensuring that sharps do not end up in municipal waste streams.
Patients often seek the privacy of restrooms to discretely and safely inject their medication used to treat chronic illnesses, such as diabetes. 42% say1 that a lack of public safety disposal containers is the biggest challenge they face when it comes to sharps disposal.
Stericycle offers sharps containers in a variety of sizes, which can be securely mounted to workplace restroom walls. Our most popular option, a stainless-steel wall cabinet is a sleek, space saving unit that fits a 1.4-quart sharps container.
Source: 1. Stericycle National Consumer Diabetes Survey 2019: Access to Care and Sharps Disposal in the Diabetes Community, September 2019.
In this route-based option, containers are securely mounted to restroom walls. Once full, Stericycle personnel swap out containers, package for shipment and leave for USPS pick up.
This option includes a sharps mail back kit containing everything needed to collect and dispose of sharps. Once full, customer personnel swap out and package containers, then ship using the pre-paid USPS return box.
*Route-based service available in most areas.
We manage all healthcare regulated waste streams including secure information destruction with expertise in related compliance training and sustainability consulting. Our network of localized team members across the country maintain a 97% on-time pickup rate.1
We reduce your risk through full chain of custody and proprietary, real-time tracking systems in addition to compliance experts to keep you informed of federal, provincial, and local regulatory developments.
In 2020, our eco-conscious products and sustainability guidance allowed our customers to recycle 1.1 billion pounds of paper, safely dispose of 40 million pounds of pharmaceutical waste; and avoid greenhouse gas emissions while diverting 104 million pounds of sharps waste plastic from landfills.2
1. Source: Stericycle data, 2021
2. Source: Stericycle data, 2020