Four foreign companies are committed to drug recycling.

The disposal of expired and idle drugs has always been a very important thing. Many drugs commonly used in families will expire after a long time, and enterprises and pharmacies will also waste or stay in the process of production and sales. Expired and idle drugs need to be properly disposed of, and medical recycling is the first choice for safe disposal. There are four foreign companies dedicated to drug recycling.

Medical safety waste

MedSafeWaste focuses on the recovery and treatment of medical waste, mainly providing medical waste treatment, pharmaceutical waste treatment, medical waste classification training and other services. In terms of drug recovery, MedsafeWaste mainly provides on-site drug waste treatment services in pharmaceutical factories, as well as the return service of expired and idle drugs in pharmacies. The company is a reverse distributor licensed by DEA, and can recycle all drugs including opioids controlled by DEA.

Stereo circulation

Stericycle is an old-fashioned waste recycling company in America. Founded in 1989, it has more than 25 years of experience in recycling medical, industrial and domestic waste. Stericycle provides various services for medical institutions and retail pharmacies, mainly including drug recall, drug retrieval, return of expired drugs and damaged drugs, and drug waste recovery services. Stericycle classifies and treats different pharmaceutical wastes according to EPA and local regulations. For example, by incinerating drugs that treat non-RCRA hazardous wastes, other waste drugs will be separated and then treated through different channels.

terrorize with military force

Deterrence is committed to developing research solutions based on scientific verification to reduce the negative impact of drug abuse and abandoned drugs on the environment. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) initiated by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (a branch of the National Institute of Health) provides support for the organization. Different from other drug recycling companies, Deterra developed a drug inactivation bag using MAT 12 molecular adsorption technology through its patented Verde platform. Deterrent drug inactivation bag is made of environmentally friendly materials, and the drugs put into the bag will be adsorbed by the activated carbon in the bag, and finally decomposed into water and carbon dioxide together with the deterrent drug inactivation bag. This drug inactivation bag can be used in homes, medical institutions, pharmacies and other places, with low cost, so that expired or idle drugs can be buried more easily instead of burning.

Sirum

In many cases, medical institutions or pharmacies will choose to destroy drugs instead of collecting, sorting and recycling them. Because of the harsh conditions and high cost of drug recovery, it is better to destroy drugs directly than to recover drugs under harsh conditions. Every year, hospitals, pharmacies, drug manufacturers and nursing homes destroy drugs worth billions of dollars. Sirum's goal is to change this situation and make it easy for medical institutions and pharmacies to donate drugs. Sirum was founded by three Stanford University graduates: GeeWang, AdamKircher and KiahWilliams. It tracks drugs through the national average drug procurement cost database, establishes a platform to connect donors and recipients, and coordinates donation logistics, including obtaining drug lists, tracking and transporting drugs. Donors can save processing time and gain income by donating their idle drugs instead of destroying them, and recipients can also bear the cost of drugs within the economic scope.

At present, drug recovery, especially the recovery of high-priced drugs, has become a black industrial chain in China. Although drug recycling faces the problems of * * * control and high cost, with the improvement of drug recycling laws and the unmet medical needs of expensive drugs such as cancer drugs, the field of drug recycling may give birth to new business models and the birth of a number of new enterprises.