Can reusable sharps container lifecycle savings be independently validated?

Yes, but it’s important to distinguish between environmental lifecycle evidence and customer-specific financial savings.

The environmental performance of reusable and single-use sharps container systems can be assessed through lifecycle assessments. Sharpsmart’s reusable system has been the subject of several independent research papers, including a UK LCA product comparison by international sustainability experts, published in the peer-reviewed BMJ Open in 2021.

Financial savings, however, are more specific to each healthcare organisation. The strongest way to validate them is to agree on a baseline before implementation and measure actual expenditure, waste activity and service performance against it over time.