Trade SIA on the Environmental Goods Agreement OZONATOR - Case Study

An innovative technology has been developed in Canada for the processing of medical and bio-hazardous waste using ozone as the sterilizing agent. Ozone is generated and is produced from ambient air and any residual ozone is converted back to oxygen, resulting in zero emissions. Waste is sterilized at room temperature without heat, steam, chemicals, flames, exhaust, odours with nothing to drain or sewer or any by-products from the process. The sterilized waste can be sent directly to landfill as general waste or used as high-grade fuel for waste to energy conversion.

The Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A. is one of the first entities to adopt the technology as the equipment of choice to sanitize its medical wastes for proper disposal. In 2008, the hospital installed and commissioned the technology to treat an average of one thousand tonnes of waste per year. The waste comes from all parts of the Union Hospital facility and includes regulated medical waste, pathological (anatomical) waste and regular kitchen waste. The technology operates 20 hours per day and seven days per week. 

Ozonator Industries (2014), “Union Hospital Letter”, accessed on 24/02/2016, available here.

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