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Post by traveler on Mar 23, 2022 13:44:08 GMT
Hi all,
I am in the process of a possible infectious waste machine for individual clinics and I am wondering what you pay for infectious waste costs per month?
This would include all red bags/boxes and sharps needle disposal.
The machine would take infectious waste and turn it into regular waste!!(No water, no chemicals)
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Post by Chuck Weddle on Mar 24, 2022 8:50:53 GMT
I wish you luck because something like this could be huge in our business. That said, others have tried this though as far as I know not the "no water, no chemicals" route. One in particular that I'm familiar with ground up the waste then washed it with a bleach solution. The largest downsides of it was it was about the size of 2 residential washing machines and its capacity per cycle wasn't much more than a treatments worth of waste. It would take a full-time employee just to feed the beast to do a days worth of waste. That waste would still need to be stored from one day to the next while waiting to be processed.
I'm guessing you're envisioning using UV?
UV wouldn't work on bloody crumbled/folded paper or chux.
How will you deal with the liquid in the waste such as blood and saline?
I'm guessing something like this would open the clinic up to frequent inspections by the EPA, OSHA as well and the states version (in MD it's MIOSH).
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Post by qman213 on Mar 24, 2022 14:57:26 GMT
For us, it depends on the facility. Our smallest (3-day a week) unit will spend $1200-$1400/month. Our busiest (6-day a week) unit will spend $4300-$4700/month. I agree with Chuck. If someone could actually develop a machine to do this, it would be huge. Good luck!
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stuff
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Post by stuff on Mar 25, 2022 13:26:12 GMT
I have heard stories about a clinic in our area using a machine like this way back in the day.
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