Clinical waste

Clinical Waste Segregation

• On 16 July 2005 the Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) came into force. It is now a legal obligation for businesses to describe exactly the content of their waste in order to ensure its safe disposal (www.hazardouswaste.org.uk).
• Safe-Point facilitates the segregation of pharmaceutical waste, providing the dental and health sector with a solution to meeting these new criteria.
• Safe-Point provides reassurance and confidence to the practitioner in the knowledge that they are responsibly and effectively disposing of their used needles.
• Cost saving vs disposable single-use syringes
• Safe-Point efficiently stores 250 used needles in a 0.5 litre sharps container. By comparison 250 disposable single-use syringes require a storage volume of 10 litres.
• The running costs of Safe-Point are significantly less than the ongoing purchase and disposal costs of single-use syringes.