Solution for hospital, remote area, and island on-site medical waste treatment

Follows the WHO “proximity” principle—treat waste near its source to reduce transport risks and emissions.

Current technologies are too complex, unreliable, and unsafe.

EASE’s Steam-Microwave system offers:

Fast sterilization (as low as 5 minutes).

Zero gas emissions during treatment.

Safe operation even if the shredder fails.

EASE’s Magnetgas system treats all waste types
(including pharmaceutical, chemical, and pathological)

95% volume reduction.

Ultra-low emissions

Remote operation and easy start/stop

WHO <Safe Management of wastes from health-care activities> 4.2

The “proximity” principle recommends that treatment and disposal of hazardous waste take place at the closest possible location to its source to minimize the risks involved in its transport. Similarly, every community should be encouraged to recycle or dispose of the waste it produces, inside its own territorial limits, unless it is unsafe to do so. ---WHO <Safe Management of wastes from health-care activities> 4.2

Medical waste treated onsite in hospitals not only comply with the “proximity” principle and minimize the risk involved in its transport, but also can reduce the cost and carbon emission related to transportation. Successful cases of onsite treatment are very limited worldwide. Why?

The first reason is the operation and maintenance of the onsite treatment equipment is over complex, and the requirements in term of professional ability of operators are too high. For example, the wide spread use of microwave or friction-heat disinfection equipment, involves a high-speed shredder. Once the shredder is jammed, manual disinfection with risky procedures must be implemented, and this jamming occurs too often for high-speed shredder. The reality is the lifetime of existed onsite treatment equipment is usually only 1-3 years, with high failure rate, discharge of contaminated pathogens during treatment, and risk of infection to operators.

The second reason is not all category of medical wastes can be treated onsite. In remote areas and most of islands, beside infectious wastes which can be disposed by non-incineration processes, there are some others wastes such as pharmaceutical, chemical and pathological wastes which cannot be disposed by non-incineration processes. How to dispose such waste is a big challenge. Especially landfill is forbidden in some place like islands. The only existing solution is to use small incinerators which will cause severe local pollution.

EASE solution

Steam-microwave

Magnetgas system

Core advantage of EASE’s steam-microwave solution:

1. Greatly reduce sterilization time to minimum 5 minutes leading to smaller size of equipment, smaller footprint, and shorter working hours.

2. Completely avoid the emission of virus-carrying gas during treatment and achieve zero emission. Only a sealed pressure vessel can do so.

3. Secure worker’s occupational health by active sterilization process when shredder fails and avoid worker contact with unsterilized shredder.

Core advantage of EASE’s Magnetgas system solution:

1. capable of treating all kinds of medical waste including pharmaceutical, chemical, and pathological wastes. Volume reduction is more than 95% which can completely replace traditional small incinerator.

2. Ultra-low emissions, environmental-friendly.

3. Adopt SMART control system which can be operated by distance and greatly reduce manpower on site. It can be started and shut down quickly to avoid the weakness of traditional incinerator that need to operate 24/7.