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Every day, human activities generate billions of waste and hospital centres are no exception. Recycling has become essential within our societies, and its application gives many benefits – ecological and economical for instance. Medical waste are subject to strict legislation including treatment on dedicated sites to minimize sanitary risks, both for the environment and populations. […]

Multiple non-burning technologies recognized and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) are available to treat hospital waste. They all have their pros and cons, but some may present more constraints than others. The autoclave/steam technology, dedicated to treat medical waste, remains probably the most common non-burning method. Very energy consuming, this technology is based […]

Hospital waste bring major issues in the medical facilities’ everyday life because of the regulations surrounding their management. The solutions for dealing with these hazardous waste are very strict and highly monitored. Some hospitals have been using the autoclave technology for decades (allowing the decontamination by rise in temperature and pressure). However, this technology reaches […]

Last October, the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SMPC) inaugurated its new Sterilwave 440, the first of the country. Like many other emerging nations, this safe, economic and ecological method pleases the medical centres regardless of their size, where there was little or no medical waste treatment before. Thanks to its swift microbial inactivation technology for […]

Biomedical waste is a critical issue for hospitals and Public Health. According to international standards, it is subject to specific rules and must be treated in strict regulated conditions. In most developed countries, it is transported by expensive secured trucks to adapted waste processing plants. In some hospitals, those transports can happen twice a day, […]

Sterilwave 100 is a compact solution for the decontamination of potentially hazardous medical waste, complying with environment protection requirements and the strictest international regulations Bertin Technologies, a CNIM Group subsidiary, is unveiling its new innovative Sterilwave 100 solution for the on-site treatment of biomedical waste (potentially infectious waste and by-products) at the MEDICA Trade Fair […]

Sterilwave rewarded again with the 2017 Green Apple Environmental Services Award through Eurotec’s installation at Whipps Cross Hospital Eurotec’s Waste treatment plant at Barts Health NHS Trust, Whipps Cross Hospital was awarded the 2017 Green Apple Environmental Services Award, just a few days after receiving the title of Innovation of the year 2017 for the […]

On October 10th, 2017, Sterilwave was awarded the title of Innovation of the Year 2017 in the UK Health Sector during the gala dinner of the Healthcare Estates Congress in Manchester. This title was obtained by Eurotec Environmental’s Sterilwave Waste Treatment Plant at Whipps Cross Hospital, NHS. This prize rewards the installation of the first […]

Sterilwave® is the innovative solution for biohazardous waste management based on microwave technology. Thanks to its dual-phase process (grinding and disinfection), it enables medical waste bacterial inactivation in 30 minutes and needs only 5 to 10 minutes operator time! Sterilwave offers efficient and rapid waste disinfection levels in excess of 8 Log 10. It converts […]

Bertin Technologies, a subsidiary of the CNIM Group, just announced the signature of a new contract with EDF covering the preventive and corrective maintenance of mobile radiation monitoring (RPM), fixed radiation monitoring (KZC) equipment, as well as the radiation monitoring systems (RMS) for French nuclear power plants. The five-year contract covers the 19 operating EDF […]