Vacsmart Waste Shrinkage
Sharpsmart’s vacsmart waste reduction system is revolutionary! Shrinking clinical, offensive and other soft waste streams by up to 80% We help facilities across the UK to dramatically reduce clinical waste volumes
Vacsmart Waste Shrinkage
The Vacsmart waste shrinking system is proven to shrink clinical and offensive waste volumes by up to 80%, eliminating odours and eradicating infection risk.
With the average large healthcare facility generating 12 kilos of waste per patient per day, factors influencing waste containment including space, infection, outbreak containment, portering labour, and spillage risk become important clinical considerations. The Vacsmart resolves all of these variables by offering a mobile compression and hermetically sealing packaging solution that safely contains infectious waste and reduces waste volumes by between 50-80%.
The Vacsmart system is fully portable and can be deployed within all areas of small, medium and large healthcare facilities such as doctors, surgeries, dentist, outpatient clinics, nursing homes, operating room, general and isolation wards, or any area where high volumes of waste present an infection control, storage or logistics issue.
“Invaluable clinical benefits..!”
We use the Vacsmart system on multiple wards for both clinical and general waste and have found it to be extremely effective in helping to reduce waste volumes. As well as being environmentally-friendly. the system also helps to reduce waste movements and “portering” time – invaluable benefits for any healthcare facility.
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
How Vacsmart Works
POINT-OF-CARE COLLECTION
Using the mobile waste trolley at point of care, routinely place untied waste procedure bags into the Vacsmart bag. The mobile trolley is foot-pedal operated and designed with a slow opening/closing mechanism to minimise air turbulence.
BAG SECUREMENT
Remove the Vacsmart bag from the mobile trolley and open the Vacsmart seal bar using the foot operated sensor. The machine is designed with a secure mechanism to ensure the bag is sealed in place without any risk of leakage. Once the bag is secure, the Vacsmart will automatically close and start its vacuum cycle.
VACSMART PROCESSING
Allow the Vacsmart process to complete its cycle, after which the seal bar will open and gently release the vacuumed bag. The system removes the air completely from the vacuum bag, and seals it to eliminate risk of spillage or cross-contamination.
DECANT INTO BULK BIN
Take the sealed Vacsmart bag and place it into the appropriate bulk waste container.
Fast, Effective Outbreak Containment
In the process of vacuum-sealing, the Vacsmart removes and filters odours, bacteria, and excess volumes of clinical, offensive and other soft waste streams by up to 80%.
Contained within a hermetically sealed air-tight bag, cross-contamination risk of infectious waste is eliminated and outbreaks of large-scale viruses, such as norovirus and swine flu can be contained. For outbreak containment, the Vacsmart system stands on its own in its ability to hermetically contain waste. Originally designed for the nursing home industry in mainland Europe where odours and spillages compromised the staff and patient environment, the system is engineer-designed to ensure safety mechanisms alert staff when active carbon or sterile filters require changing.
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