Reduction of Total Waste Volume

• A landmark agreement, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), set a goal of achieving a thirty-three percent (33%) reduction in total waste volume in all hospitals by 2005 and an overall goal of achieving a fifty percent (50%) reduction by 2010. | more
  
  
• The SafeSnap syringe is the only safe needle device approved both as a safety syringe and a self-contained sharps container, thereby facilitating reduction in total waste volume in all hospitals.