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Volunteer for the Stericycle Awareness Campaign
  • Tell your friends about this website so they can be informed. Help create public awareness. Print the FAQ for them.
  • Watch the video: Burning Issues in Medical Waste at http://bredl-medwaste.org/videos.htm
  • Tell your healthcare providers to look at the video: Medwaste: Call to Action for Health Care at http://bredl-medwaste.org/hospitals-video.htm
  • Ask your health care providers to consider using non-incineration technologies for their medical waste. Suggest they look here for resources: http://bredl-medwaste.org/hospitals-resources.htm
  • Attend upcoming BREDL meetings on Stericycle. Call Sue Dayton at the BREDL Office (336) 525-2003 or Write to us at info@bredl-medwaste.org
  • Sponsor a presentation about the potential health risks associated with Stericycle’s Haw River medical waste incinerators and what can be done.
  • Tell Stericycle to stop burning medical waste in North Carolina. Urge them to convert to non-incineration alternatives as they have done in other communities. Write to:
    Mark Miller, President and CEO
    Stericycle Inc.
    28161 North Keith Drive
    Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
  • Call the NC Division of Air Quality immediately (336) 771-5000 if you see dark smoke or smell odors coming from the Stericycle's incinerators. Keep a record of your call. Inform BREDL.

 

What is the right thing? Simply put, it is the elimination of all incineration of medical waste not required by law to be burned. Martha Hamblin, GASP, at Stericyle Annual Stockholder Meeting