About
Safe sharps containers
and disposal services
Injury from a needle, scalpel or other sharps waste can place a significant emotional burden on the affected person and their family, and lead to serious health, legal and financial consequences. Cleanaway’s Sharpsmart services can help helps prevent sharps injuries, as well as infection transmission and environmental harm, through safe sharps handling and containment solutions.
Together with our health services division - Cleanaway Daniels, we’re the industry leader in sharps management for clinical, healthcare and public settings. Our integrated approach ensures compliant collection, transport and treatment of sharps through a range of containment systems, including Australia’s only reusable sharps bins and our range of single-use containers.
Our innovative Sharpsmart containment system is scientifically proven to be one of the world’s safest and most environmentally responsible sharps management solution.
Whether you’re a hospital, medical clinic, aged care provider or tattoo studio, our fit-for-purpose needle disposal bins and sharps containment systems, tailored pickup schedules and reporting help create a safer, more sustainable workplace.
Medical and clinical sharps
Needles, syringes, scalpels, lancets, and other sharps used in medical, dental, veterinary, or allied health settings.
Laboratory and community sharps
Research lab sharps, glass slides, and community-generated sharps from diabetes care, home treatments, and immunisations.
Service
Who we work with
Hospitals and healthcare networks
Comprehensive sharps collection and disposal for surgical, emergency, and ward settings.
GP clinics and specialist centres
Safe sharps management for general practice, pathology, and day procedure facilities.
Dental, veterinary and others
Tailored solutions for dental surgeries, veterinary practices, allied health providers, and tattoo/piercing studios.
Community and government programs
Support for public sharps disposal initiatives, needle exchange programs, and community health services.
Process
Sharps waste management process
Our process is built around safety and compliance protocols that aim to protect workers, patients, the community and the environment.
Our team can help you implement best practice segregation at the source, with the aim of improving safe disposal practices and recovery opportunities.
Our drivers safely collect sharps waste on a schedule that suits your operations.
After collection, compliance documentation including certificates of destruction, waste manifests and auditing support are available.
Details
Industry-leading Sharpsmart containers and more
No matter what setting you’re working in or the volume of sharps waste you generate, we have the right needle disposal bins and sharps containers for your needs.
- Reusable Sharpsmart containers – Engineered with safety as a top priority across both high-volume settings and for personal use, our containers are available in a range of sizes with the same unique safety features.
- Single-use sharps containers – Ideal for low-volume or community use, including in pharmacies, GP clinics or homes.
Comprehensive
Sharpsmart features and benefits
Our Sharpsmart system is transforming how sharps waste is stored and collected. Manufactured in Australia, the system has been shown to reduce container-related sharps injuries by 87%*. And because it’s reusable, it drastically reduces the amount of plastic disposable sharps containers that are incinerated or sent to landfill each year.
*Results from the largest international study of sharps containment systems were published in 2003 in the British Journal of Hospital Infection.
Sharpsmart has been engineered with a range of innovative features:
- Wide opening: The lid opening accommodates large sharps while minimising disposal-related injuries and restricting hand access to the contained waste
- Maximum strength: The medical-grade hardened plastic casing is impenetrable by contained sharps
- Clearview window: This unique feature identifies the fill level of the collector
- Eliminates overfilling: Once the collector is full, the in-built safety tray is activated into an upright closed position to restrict access
- No leak: A liquid seal fixed around the rim of the collector lid eliminates leakage of bodily fluids during transport
- Tamper-proof side locks: This safety feature prevents unauthorised access to the container contents
Output
What happens to sharps waste and disposal containers
Sharpsmart containers, on the other hand, can be safely reused more than 500 times thanks to Cleanaway’s groundbreaking robotic washline. This innovative system delivers the highest level of medical container decontamination, with full automation to enhance safety and efficiency. Each year, it processes over 1.2 million Sharpsmart containers across biomedical, pharmaceutical, cytotoxic, anatomical and clinical waste streams, diverting nearly 3,500 tonnes of plastic from landfill.
Our promise
Why choose Cleanaway
A one-stop solution
We offer an expansive range of services, custom waste solutions and expert support to meet the waste management and resource recovery needs of Australian businesses, councils and industries of any size.
Making a sustainable future possible together
We’re leading the way in sustainable waste management and resource recovery, helping Australia to transition to a circular economy and investing in lasting solutions for the benefit of all Australians – now and into the future.
Health, safety and environmental focus
We implement rigorous controls to safely collect, treat and dispose of waste, minimising the risk of harm to people and the environment while meeting strict compliance standards.
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Market-leading infrastructure
Our EPA-licensed, state-of-the-art facilities enable safe, efficient waste processing and resource recovery at scale.