Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Waste Disposal Services
Effective waste removal in Stoke-on-Trent is vital for healthcare facilities to ensure safety, compliance and sustainability. Sharpsmart offers tailored solutions, expert support and eco-friendly waste disposal services.
The Sharpsmart Difference
We provide sharps and clinical waste bins and containers — designed by clinicians, for clinicians.
- All containers sanitised through a world-leading robotic washing / decontamination process
- Waste reduction and segregation initiatives reduce costs and improve carbon footprint
- Scheduling that supports your practice – you pay only for what you need
- Eliminate disposal-related needlestick injuries with our advanced sharps safety systems
- Eliminate the purchase, incineration costs and landfill of one-time-use disposable containers
- Local Reliable Service, Local Drivers, Local Treatment. No third parties
Solutions
Types of waste we service and solutions we provide include:
- Offensive and Infectious Clinical Waste Services
- Safe Biohazardous Sharps Disposal
- Pharmaceutical Waste Services
- Hazardous Waste Removal and Cytotoxic Waste Services
- Bespoke Education, Waste Audits and Segregation Training
Clinical Waste Management in Stoke-on-Trent: Key Regulations and Best Practices
Healthcare facilities in Stoke-on-Trent must adhere to strict government regulations and legal requirements for clinical waste management. Here’s how Sharpsmart can help:
Regulatory Compliance You Can Trust
- At Sharpsmart, we design our waste management solutions to comply with the Environmental Protection Act 1990, Controlled Waste Regulations 2012, and Healthcare Technical Memorandum 07-01.
- Our comprehensive colour-coded segregation system ensures healthcare staff can easily sort and dispose of clinical waste in line with UK guidelines.
Colour-Coded Segregation Made Simple
- Yellow, Orange and Purple: For sharps waste, including needles and sharp instruments.
- Other Waste Streams: We provide solutions for highly infectious, infectious, cytotoxic, anatomical, and pharmaceutical waste, all aligned with the UK’s colour-coding scheme.
Supporting Duty of Care
- We help healthcare facilities in Stoke-on-Trent meet their Duty of Care obligations by offering detailed documentation and tracking for every waste transfer.
- Our advanced technology tracks waste from collection to disposal and generates detailed data reports, ensuring a complete chain of custody and seamless compliance.
Driving Sustainability with Innovative Solutions
- Our reusable container systems and Washsmart process directly support the NHS Clinical Waste Strategy’s net zero carbon goals.
- Peer-reviewed studies have proven our solutions can reduce a facility’s carbon footprint by 65-85%, while also significantly reducing overall waste volumes.
Training to Empower Your Team
- We provide personalised training and educational programs tailored to your facility’s needs.
- Our goal is to ensure every staff member is confident in waste segregation and handling, helping you maintain compliance and improve waste management practices across the board.
Sharpsmart Uses Bold Colour to Improve Healthcare Waste Segregation
Sharpsmart has made a significant impact in the healthcare waste management sector with our innovative approach to colour-coded waste segregation.
Our iconic reusable sharps container aligns perfectly with the UK’s medical waste colour-coding scheme, as outlined in the Department of Health’s Healthcare Technical Memorandum 07-01 (HTM 07-01).
Sharps Waste
At Sharpsmart, we ensure our reusable sharps containers not only meet regulatory standards but also offer enhanced safety and reusability, setting a new benchmark for healthcare waste management.
- Yellow lid sharps containers are for sharps waste contaminated with medicines or chemicals other than cytotoxic and/or cytostatic components.
- Orange lid sharps containers are for non-medicinally contaminated sharps waste.
- Purple lid sharps containers are for any cytotoxic or cytostatic sharps waste.
Building Trusted Partnerships
Our commitment to colour-coding compliance and safety has earned us trusted partners like the University Hospitals of North Midlands, who value our dedication to regulatory adherence and innovative solutions.
Comprehensive Colour-Coded Waste Segregation
We offer solutions for a variety of healthcare waste streams, all strictly adhering to the UK’s colour-coding guidelines:
- Yellow: For highly infectious clinical waste requiring incineration.
- Orange: For infectious waste suitable for alternative treatments.
- Purple: For cytotoxic and cytostatic waste.
- Red: For anatomical waste.
- Blue: For pharmaceutical waste.
Our Alignment with Best Practices
We believe in making waste management straightforward and intuitive. By combining colour-coding methods with targeted education, we empower healthcare professionals to sort and dispose of waste confidently and efficiently.
Our focus on safety, regulatory compliance, and environmental responsibility ensures that we not only meet industry standards but exceed them, creating a safer and more sustainable healthcare environment.
Services Sharpsmart Delivers to Stoke-on-Trent Hospitals and Primary Care Facilities
- Personalised training and educational benchmarks for your staff around healthcare waste segregation
- Data and strategies to drive clinical waste volume reduction
- Compliant Cradle to grave waste management for offensive, clinical, sharps, pharmaceutical and cytotoxic wastes
- Reusable sharps containers with over 20 inbuilt safety features
- Pharmaceuticals and controlled substances waste disposal and training
- Technology that allows for waste tracking and detailed data extraction
- Quantifiable results with KPI Management
Sharpsmart’s Washmart: The Fully Automated Solution for Sharps Container Sanitisation
The journey of our Washsmart system is a pivotal part of our origin story, which remarkably began with a second-hand washing machine.
Our CEO, Dan Daniels, set out to design the world’s safest and most environmentally friendly sharps container while also developing a compliant method for washing and decontamination—and he succeeded in achieving both!
Here’s a bit of information on what we achieve through our washing process:
- The highest levels of microbiological efficacy and bacterial load reduction using eco-friendly cleaning solutions and powerful jet-blasting hoses with steam technology.
- Complete removal of blood and other human-source soiling inside of a container.
- An independently verified sanitisation level that exceeds the requirements for high-level disinfection.
- Parameters that ensure quality ensuring the entire washing process from time, temperature and water volumes necessary to achieve our high standard of cleanliness.
Sharpsmart Has Over 20 in-Built Safety Features Designed Based on Feedback from Clinicians Like You
Our unique yellow, reusable sharps container was so innovative we named our entire organisation after it. We aimed to make this sharps container the safest solution possible for those using it daily, so we consulted our customers to understand what features mattered most to them…
Clinically Designed Features of the Sharpsmart Reusable:
- Clearview Window: Allows visibility of contents without exposing fluids
- Ergonomic Handle: Facilitates safe carrying, made of high-strength materials
- Extra-large Aperture: Enables safe deposit of large sharps
- Strong Walls: High-quality ABS polymer prevents penetration
- Horizontal Drop: Improves safety and increases capacity by 30%
- Tray Sensitivity: Safely deposits light sharps and restricts hand entry
- Tamper-proof Locks: Ensures security once closed
- Temporary Closures: Allows safe movement between sites
- Overfill Protection: Tray locks when full to prevent injuries
Efficiency and Usability
- No Cabinet Required: Maintains attractiveness and eliminates cleaning
- Pre-assembled: Reduces assembly errors and exchange time
- Universal Bracket: Fits all sizes, simplifying changes
- Stackable Design: Enables stable 90° stacking
- Engineered Carts: For safe transport of containers and accessories
Hygiene and Decontamination
- Leakproof Seal: Securely contains liquids in any orientation
- Convoluted Base: Facilitates thorough cleaning
- Smartguard Coating: Enables easy removal of fluids and soils
- Automated Washing: Achieves 6-log reduction of pathogens
- 15-point QA/QC Process: Ensures thoroughly cleaned and functional containers
Environmental Impact
- Reusable Design: Significantly reduces carbon footprint by 65-85%
- Waste Volume Reduction: Decreases overall clinical waste volumes
Certifications and Proven Effectiveness
- Certified to multiple international standards (Canadian, Australian, ISO, UK, UN-ADG, FDA, OSHA, DOT)
- Proven in peer-reviewed studies to reduce sharps injuries and environmental impact
Sharpsmart Understands the Needs of Healthcare Facilities in Stoke-on-Trent
Contact us to see how we can help your Stoke-on-Trent facility better manage its sharps, clinical, and pharmaceutical waste disposal.
Reduce Waste, Segregate Better
Providing safe clinically designed solutions that drive reductions in costs and environmental burden
By diverting waste into appropriate waste streams, implementing waste volume-reduction strategies, and introducing reusable solutions that eliminate the purchase and disposal of plastic, Sharpsmart can radically transform the costs and environmental burden of healthcare waste management. Understanding the needs of each facility we work with, we create a waste optimisation program that hits all the high notes of lowering costs, reducing overall clinical waste volumes, reducing co2 emissions through recycling, reusability and landfill diversion, educating and accrediting staff in safe waste handling, and creating a safer workplace for carers and patients.
Dramatically reduced infection transfer risk
Foot-pedal operated bagless system
This no-touch alternative results in a dramatic reduction in the infection transfer risk that currently exists using standard clinical waste containers.The Clinismart reusable system ensures that once full, each container is removed from your premises, emptied, and then subjected to a rigorous 6-stage robotic wash and sanitisation process that eliminates challenge organisms andproves a 106 Log reduction inbacterial load.
Sharpsmart. World Leading Sharps Safety Technology
Peer reviewed in four independent studies, clinically proven to reduce Sharps Injuries by up to 87%, and relied on by healthcare facilities around the world, the Sharpsmart sharps containment system is driven by a single objective – To Save Lives. Designed with 13 safety features, manufactured with needle-impenetrable plastic, a gravity balanced safety tray for risk-free sharps disposal, and a built-in overfill protection mechanism, the Sharpsmart is the most advanced sharps container system in the world.
Secure pharmaceutical waste management
Protecting staff and facilities in the collection of expired drugs and controlled substances
Setting a new industry benchmark in secure pharmaceutical waste management, the Sharpsmart pharmaceutical containment system mitigates unnecessary risk for healthcare practitioners and the public in the containment, disposal, transport and destruction of partially used or expired medications. Through its safety-engineered design, our unique containment system eliminates tampering, pillaging and misappropriation of discarded pharmaceuticals.
How We Serve You
Across 6 countries, Sharpsmart has become a brand name synonymous with healthcare innovation and service
In 33 years Sharpsmart have become experts in delivering solutions for the niche requirements of healthcare. From small physicians offices to large hospitals, our scalable business model ensures that every customer receives:
- Timely scheduled services with clear transparent communication
- Minimum disruption to patient care
- Safety and Security underpinning all clinical waste handling practices
- A positive and friendly customer experience
- Cost-effective customised solutions that guarantee efficiencies and maximise savings
We Service Locally 
Stoke-on-Trent is the heart of our clean processing plant — literally! This is where our local team of experienced drivers sets out each day to Make Healthcare Safer. We are proud to have our clean servicing plant here, offering reusable solutions to as many hospitals and GPs as possible. Sharpsmart is dedicated to maximising your efficiencies, safety, costs, and education.
Our team of local experts is trained and eager to learn your specific healthcare waste management needs. From there, we craft bespoke educational material that will leave your entire staff feeling confident about healthcare waste management and disposal.
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All Waste Streams
We can manage all healthcare waste streams including sharps, offensive and clinical waste, pharmaceutical, cytotoxic and anatomical waste.
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People That Care
Our people are amazing, and they are truly invested in the vision of making healthcare safer, which means – helping you!
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All Healthcare Facilities
Sharpsmart is proud to work with over 1500 hospitals, laboratories, cancer centres and nursing homes across the UK. We’re a pretty good fit!
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Waste Reduction
We are passionate about segregating better, reducing waste volumes, lessening environmental burden, and reporting results that instigate change.
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Flexible Scheduling
With local service, our solutions match your facility’s volume and pickup requirements, not our pockets! You pay only for what you need.
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Education that Drives Change
Through bespoke education resources and online waste categorisation training, we empower our customers to drive greater segregation and lower costs.
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