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By embedding specialist knowledge, this Knowledge Transfer Partnership project aims to develop waste treatment and material recovery processes, enhancing segregation and recyclability of bulk offensive waste materials from the healthcare sector. These new processes will lead to the development of novel products and will involve embedding analytical chemistry expertise, incorporating microbiology and biomaterials expertise. The new bulk product will be taken to market, along the principles of the circular economy, valorising the waste stream.  

Following a successful capability study, undertaken through support from the university's Green Growth Platform (now known as ), Medisort sought to collaborate on this strategic project with the university, accessing the expertise brought by the academic team to successfully develop this new capability in the business. 

The project team will utilise diverse, but complementary, expertise in analytical chemistry, microbiology and biomaterials to initially design and test appropriate separation and recovery techniques, including decontamination protocols at laboratory scale. 

This will inform the subsequent steps to design and test prototype equipment and set up a permanent laboratory on site, work with the supply chain and develop a marketing strategy for the novel products.

Expected outputs:  

• Improving segregation of materials to increase the amount of recyclable waste, reducing costs associated with recycling and incineration

• Increased turnover from new waste treatment and material recovery process

• New income stream from launch of novel products. 

Outputs so far: 

• Testing has been done on using waste products to recover soil damaged by heavy metals 

• Investigation has started in the use of cleansed recovered materials product to create new products.