Clinical Waste Disposal for Aesthetic and Cosmetic Clinics
In the aesthetics industry, patient trust and hygiene are everything. Sharpsmart delivers trusted, fully compliant waste solutions for aesthetic and cosmetic clinics. From sharps and cytotoxic waste to chemical and infectious materials, we ensure safety without sacrificing sustainability.
Safe and Compliant Waste Management for Aesthetic Treatments
Sharpsmart offers waste pickup services for a variety of aesthetic waste types including:
- Clinical Waste
- Botox Needles & Vials
- Expired Injectables & Creams
- Saline Ampoules & Medicine Vials
Engineered for Clinical Safety, Designed for Aesthetics
It’s not just your clients – your waste management model deserves a glow-up, too.
Running an aesthetic clinic demands a precise balance that blends clinical precision with a luxury experience. With every injection, microneedling session or dermaplaning treatment comes a responsibility – managing sharps and clinical waste safely, compliantly, and without disrupting your client’s sense of calm.
At Sharpsmart, we provide a clinical waste service engineered for both safety and style.
As an experienced clinical waste company, we can help you firm up your med spa’s waste management strategy with our safety-engineered devices, built to meet HTM 07-01 standards whilst complementing the premium aesthetic of your clinic. We couple this safety approach with flexible scheduling that’s tailored to your specific needs.
Our ISO 23907-2 certified reusable sharps containers don’t just comply with the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013 – they set a higher benchmark for protection, sustainability, and design excellence.
As well as being the safest systems on the market, they also enhance the aesthetic of your treatment rooms while protecting clinicians and beauticians. Every reusable container is colour-coded for easy segregation and features:
- Hand-entry restriction and tamper-proof locks to eliminate injury and diversion risks.
- Rigorous decontamination and sanitisation process that achieves high-level disinfection before containers return clean and fit for your clinic.
- Smooth, no-cabinet design that blends seamlessly into treatment environments.
- Clearview window and overfill protection, allowing staff to monitor fill levels safely without exposing contents.
- Leakproof seals and temporary closures for safe transfer between treatment areas – containing odours and preventing spills.
Each container is processed through our validated 6-log decontamination Washsmart system and passes a 15-point quality assurance inspection before reuse, ensuring a clean, compliant and premium-looking product at every exchange.
Transform Your Clinic’s Aesthetic Waste Management
We Start With Discovery
Every aesthetic clinic operates differently, and there’s no ‘one size fits all’ solution. Before suggesting anything, we take time to understand your treatments, waste streams, and space limitations – from sharps and soft waste volumes to hygiene and transport challenges. This discovery process ensures your waste system is built entirely around your workflow, not someone else’s.
We Map your Service Requirements
We design a tailored waste management plan that meets your compliance, collection and storage needs – nothing more, nothing less. Our data-driven approach ensures you only pay for the service frequency your clinic actually needs. Just because the clinic around the corner is having their clinical waste picked up every month doesn’t mean your facility requires that frequency of service.
We Recommend the Right Containers
We work with you to determine what sharps, clinical and offensive waste containers or pharmaceutical waste bins are right for your facility’s needs. Our audit takes into account container size, placement, bracket options, and movement between rooms –including hands-free or wall-mounted systems. We’ll consider the result – a compliant, space-efficient and hygienic waste set-up that enhances your clinical environment with the correct colour-coded bins for your aesthetic waste.
We Make Contracts Clear and Simple
Transparency is non-negotiable. You’ll never encounter hidden fees, complicated terms or confusing clauses – our agreements are written in plain language with fixed pricing and clear deliverables, giving you peace of mind and complete confidence in compliance and cost control.
We Take Care of Every Detail
Service quality is at the heart of our promise. We have a tight quality control process that continuously monitors container presentation, timeliness of collection, service reliability, and responsiveness to customer requests – with escalation routes that reach our Senior Leadership. Every clinic, regardless of size, receives the same level of care.
We Optimise Aesthetic Waste Segregation
Correct waste segregation is key to controlling both risk and cost. We make it easy through visual guides, blended learning and ongoing education, as well as containment solutions that make segregation second nature. Many of our partners achieve cost and CO2e reductions that they hadn’t realised were possible before.
We Deliver Measurable Sustainability
Sharpsmart’s reusable sharps containers stop over a million single-use containers from being sent for High-Temperature Incineration every year! By reducing plastic manufacturing, transportation emissions, and incineration, your cosmetic clinic will directly contribute to lower CO2e output and demonstrable environmental progress – all while maintaining the highest possible safety standards.
Disposal Solutions for All Aesthetic Waste Streams
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OFFENSIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
Solutions for offensive waste such as: used couch roll, gloves, tissues, dressings, waxing strips, wipes, and PPE that haven’t been contaminated with pharmaceutical or chemical substances.
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CYTOTOXIC WASTE DISPOSAL
Solutions for cytotoxic waste such as: syringes and vials from injectable treatments such as Botox (which contains botulinum toxins), and any contaminated materials or equipment used in their administration.
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SHARPS WASTE DISPOSAL
Solutions for sharps waste such as: needles and syringes, single-use metal items, broken vials, scalpels and blades, etc. used in treatments including dermal fillers, microneedling, and acupuncture.
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PHARMACEUTICAL DISPOSAL
Solutions for pharmaceutical waste such as: out-of-date lidocaine, hyaluronidase, topical anaesthetics, saline ampoules, and empty medicine vials that have not contained cytotoxic/cytostatic drugs.
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CLINICAL WASTE DISPOSAL
Solutions for infectious clinical waste such as: items contaminated with blood or bodily fluids from patients suspected or known to be infectious – used gauze, swabs, gloves or dressings.
“Service is First Class…”
NCUH has been working with Sharpsmart for a number of years and have found the service to be first class.
Nicola Little, Transport Services Officer
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
“Good Value for Money…”
We’ve used Sharpsmart for over four years – their products & services are excellent and good value for money.
Clare Topping, Energy & Sustainability Manager
Northampton General Hospital
“Exceptional Training…”
For a number of years I have had the pleasure of having Sharpsmart as a service provider and throughout the years I have been impressed with their commitment to customer service. We have not only been the recipient of good quality service, our staff have been provided exceptional training by informative and dedicated staff. Our questions and issues are always addressed in a timely manner and the team at Sharpsmart have always gone above and beyond our expectations.
Catherine Lockwood, Manager – Customer Support Services
Joseph Brant Hospital
“Reduces Risk…”
The Sharpsmart system has become an integral part of the way we work at South Tees. It is efficient, easy to use, and reusable, but overall it is safe. Our staff have it embedded into their daily routine so that they can deliver care in a safe environment whilst also reducing the risk to themselves and others.
Steve Bell, Sustainability leader/Waste Manager/Health & Safety Advisor
South Tees NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust
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