Healthcare

Why process regulated waste on-site?

Thirty years ago, it was standard practice for the medical industry to incinerate its waste.  Concerns about health risks from stack emissions and syringes on NJ beaches forced a complete transition to the current practice of sterilization, shredding or grinding and landfill.  Many hospitals have chosen to contract off-site waste treatment and disposal services in spite of the extremely high cost, the risk of liability associated with transporting untreated medical waste and the administrative nightmare of mandatory record-keeping. 

Now, we see another transition on the horizon: a move away from sending our waste to landfill. 

Landfills pollute our ground water, occupy and pollute valuable land and produce greenhouse gases.  Hospitals are under increasing pressure to reduce operating costs AND to reduce their carbon footprint.  The IST Energy Healthcare Services offering will help you meet both those objectives:  The next shift in medical waste disposal will be towards on-site sterilization and gasification which safely eliminates the waste while generating usable green energy.

IST Energy will help you achieve these key goals:

·         Reduce costs

o    Eliminate high monthly service fees

o    Realize a short payback period for capital costs

o    Process and destroy HIPAA documents on-site – no costly service required

o    Eliminate liability risk of transporting untreated medical waste

o    Minimize overall volume of waste

·         Reduce fossil-fuel dependence

o    Operate system at a net zero or net positive energy utilization

o    Offset “brown” energy with “green” energy

·         Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

o    Recycle more

o    Reduce landfill use by 95%

o    Eliminate diesel truck emissions

·         Manage critical data points

o    Regulatory compliance reporting

o    Waste volume and disposal cost tracking

o    Greenhouse gas emissions reporting

Are you concerned about new EPA GHG reporting mandates?

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