Pyrolysis Deemed a Viable Alternative to Incinceration
Researchers at the University of York have concluded that PyroPure (UK) technology has the capacity to alter the way in which toxic waste is destroyed in clinical environments and state pharmacists, hospitals and manufacturers across the united kingdom should consider trialling the system. The statement follows a six month Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership project where a team of scientists in the University’s Environment Department and Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectroscopy verified that the system helped to destroy active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) found within pharmaceutical waste onsite. A total of 17 of the most populous resistant APIs were chosen to the trial, which demonstrated that PyroPure technologies destroys over 99 percent of APIs at 10 of the 17 examined and an average of 94 percent of the’worst case’ pharmaceuticals. On the long run of PyroPure as an alternative to high temperature incineration, he remarks: “There are big issues over…