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What Can I Do?

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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 of the problem and issues. http://bredl-medwaste.org
  • Attend upcoming BREDL meetings on Stericycle. Call Sue Dayton at the BREDL Office (336) 525-2003.
  • Let us know about your volunteer interests, ideas, or questions. Write to us at info@bredl-medwaste.org
  • Contact your local and/or state officials with your concerns.
  • Sponsor a presentation about the potential health risks associated with Stericycle’s Haw River medical waste incinerator.
  • Ask your healthcare providers about using non-incineration technologies for their medical waste. Suggest they look at this website section for resources: bredl-medwaste.org/hospitals-resources.htm
  • Tell Stericycle to stop burning medical waste in North Carolina. 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 (919) 733-3340 if you see dark smoke or smell odors coming from the Stericycle incinerator. 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