Aemerge RedPak treats all forms of medical waste according to “High Heat” guidelines, allowing for single-stream medical waste collection. This results in significantly safer conditions for employees and patients, as well as greater efficiencies in medical settings, such as faster surgery room turnover and quicker loading procedures.

Aemerge RedPak offers disposable containers in various sizes – all approved for comingled medical waste streams – for all your needs. Office-sized receptacles easily nest into larger containers for streamlined collection and transportation. All Aemerge RedPak containers are made from recycled cardboard and are processed along with the medical waste.

You can compare a general waste stream model in a health care setting to a model utilizing Aemerge RedPak’s service here: Waste Stream Comparison

Aemerge RedPak ensures that all medical waste is treated safely, conveniently, and efficiently in California, reducing liability associated with hauling across country. All waste processed through the Carbonizer system is sterilized and rendered unrecognizable (unlike other treatment options, such as autoclaving), which prevents dangerous and costly scenarios related to improper treatment and/or disposal of traceable medical waste.

Additionally, we provide Auditable Destruction™, a method allowing medical waste generators the ability to audit and ensure waste is treated and destroyed. With Aemerge RedPak, you will receive:

• Detailed and automated tracking of medical waste received, treated, and destroyed
• Certificates of Destruction provided in a fraction of the time as compared to out-of- state facilities

Unlike autoclaving (treated with steam and deposited in landfills) and incineration (releasing harmful chemicals into the environment), Aemerge RedPak’s Carbonizer system processes medical waste in a negative pressure, no oxygen environment with high heat. This results in:

• Syngas – captured and converted to clean and renewable energy
• Treated glass and metals – recycled
• Carbon char

This also results in 95 percent of treated waste diverted from landfills.

The most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) annual report on healthcare-associated infections estimates that, on any given day, one in 25 hospital patients has at least one hospital-acquired infection. Additionally, CDC estimates that hospital-based healthcare personnel experience around 385,000 needle sticks and other injuries related to sharps every year.

Single-use, disposable Aemerge RedPak containers reduce the potential for secondary infections and require no container washing with chemicals and effluent discharge. Additionally, through Aemerge RedPak’s single-stream collection, human contact with medical waste is greatly reduced. Not only does this allow for medical professionals to focus more attention on their patients and not the correct receptacle, but it also limits the exposure to contaminated medical waste and the spread of hospital-acquired infections.

We recognize the negative environmental impacts associated with traditional medical waste treatment and destruction, ranging from air pollution to overtaxing the capacity of our landfills. Aemerge RedPak is demonstrating that these environmental impacts are not necessary. By utilizing Aemerge RedPak and our Virtual Landfill®, you are also making a difference.

• Diverts 95 percent of treated medical waste from landfill disposal
• Recycles treated metals and glass
• Generates 1.25 MW of clean and renewable power – enough to offset 75 percent of our energy use
• Reduces environmentally harmful hauling emissions
• No incineration, reducing harmful toxins from being released into the atmosphere
• No methane emissions, unlike landfilled autoclave waste