Our Sustainability

Daniels Health is committed to leading the medical waste industry in innovation and practices that minimize ecological impact. Through superior technology, reusable products and recycling initiatives, our solutions minimize landfill, manufacturing excess and CO2 emissions.

By partnering with Daniels, your environmental impact will be significantly reduced each year.

As a business founded on the key tenant of driving environmental stewardship in healthcare, Daniels Health embraces the Global Sustainability challenge, and has made genuine changes in the way we do business. Our goal is to reduce the environmental impact of medical waste, without compromising the service we offer to our customers.

Across the globe, healthcare service providers are feeling the increased importance of protecting planetary health to ensure a safe future for public health in the communities we serve. Daniels is committed to leading the industry in innovation and practices that minimize ecological impact. Our strategies to achieve this are:

  • Create clinically-designed reusable containment systems and clinical-flow processes that achieve maximum environmental sustainability across their full life cycle.
  • Minimize environmental burden by evaluating operations and ensuring they function as efficiently as possible.
  • Minimize toxic emissions through the selection and use of our fleet and the source of its power requirement.
  • Drive integrated waste segregation and reduction programs in hospitals to ensure the most sustainable packaging and treatment options are adopted for the waste type
  • Actively promote recycling both internally and with our customers and suppliers.
  • Meet or exceed all environmental legislation at local and national levels as it pertains to transport, treatment, and waste reduction initiatives

One of Daniels’ principle founding values is to achieve the highest level of ecology possible through innovation, product, and process. In our medical waste management practices, we utilize the most sustainable methodology of environmental effectiveness – reusability. By reusing sharps and medical waste containers instead of throwing them out, a significant reduction in overall waste volumes can be made.

Globally, Daniels’ Sharpsmart system achieves a significant reduction in the CO2 burden of healthcare facilities we partner with. Annually the system diverts millions of pounds of plastic and cardboard from landfills, and, with its 50-year life cycle, the Daniels Sharpsmart sharps container single-handedly eliminates the manufacturing of hundreds of thousands of disposable products. A complete life cycle assessment of reusable and disposable sharps containers reveals that the overall ‘carbon footprint’ of a Sharpsmart reusable container can be up to 76% less than that of disposable containers.

“The 84% reduction of CO2eq emissions with the Daniels Sharpsmart system exceeds the 2020 reduction target for US federal hospitals and the 2050 target for UK NHS hospitals. If Daniels Sharpsmart reusable sharps containers were used nationally in the US, we estimate annual US hospital GWP would fall by 64,000 MTCO2eq.”

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Prioritizing Sustainability

  • Reusable Products

    Our reusable and bagless product range minimizes environmental impact and eliminates the manufacturing, transport, and disposal of single-use plastics and cardboard

  • Green Partners

    We carefully vet our suppliers to ensure we are partnering with local production companies who prioritize GHG reduction policies. Our current injection-molder is ISO-14001 certified.

  • Efficient Operations

    Our trucks are EPA Smartway certified, improving fuel efficiency and environmental supply chain performance. Route optimization software allows us to reduce vehicle fuel consumption, ensuring efficient routing, minimized transport load, and effective space utilization.

  • Waste Segregation

    Optimized waste segregation programs that dramatically reduce medical waste volumes and minimize treatment emissions by diverting waste into the most environmentally friendly treatment method, specific to each waste stream.

  • Robotic Washing

    Daniels Washsmart technology provides highly effective container sanitization, while recycling 80% of water, decreasing detergent usage through an efficient dosing system, eliminating unnecessary additives, and reducing energy in hot-water production.

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Learn how Daniels is minimizing sustainability impact through smart healthcare waste management

PUTTING THE ENVIRONMENT FIRST

Daniels reusable solutions are time-tested to deliver environmental impact reduction results across the entire spectrum of healthcare waste containment, collection, washing, and treatment.

All Daniels products and services are scrutinized through microbiological testing, peer-reviewed studies, and client before-and-after case studies; our solutions are test-proven time and time again to deliver results across the critical spectrum of needlestick injuries, infection risk prevention, CO2 emission reductions, labor efficiencies, and waste volume minimization. Read more about our environmental impact and significantly reduced CO2 and landfill burden through our documented Case Studies.

Reducing Carbon Emissions

As governments and individuals around the world become increasingly concerned about the potential impact of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), on global warming and climate change, Daniels has increased its efforts to ensure that its products help customers act responsibly as they work towards reducing carbon emissions.

Initial research conducted by Daniels, in collaboration with the Waterman Group, a leading environmental consultancy organization in the UK, has confirmed the Sharpsmart system of reusable sharps containers provides a significant reduction in carbon emissions when compared with single-use container systems.

Daniels will continue research in this area so healthcare facilities using the Sharpsmart system can be assured they are playing their part in looking after our planet’s health!

DANIELS ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT

Daniels Health is committed to leading the industry in innovation and practices that minimize ecological impact

Our strategies to achieve this are:

Create a product range that minimizes the environmental impact of both production and distribution.
Minimize environmental burden by evaluating operations and ensuring they function as efficiently as possible.
Minimize toxic emissions through the selection and use of our fleet and the source of its power requirement.
Actively promote recycling both internally and with our customers and suppliers.
Meet or exceed all the environmental legislation that relates to the company.

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