Systems and methods for collecting, transporting and repurposing or destroying unused pharmaceuticals
AssigneeSharps Compliance, Inc. of Texas
InventorsDavid P. Tusa, Khairan Aladwani, Greg C. Davis, Jan Harris
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Abstract
Systems and methods implementing the systems including a facility including a plurality of collection apparatuses distributed in the facility for ease of collection and transportation. The system also includes transportation subsystems for shipping filled inner containers to a processing subsystem and for transporting a fuel material or a land fillable material to incineration or landfill subsystems. The systems may also include a monitoring subsystem for monitoring the deployed collection apparatuses, inner containers, the fuel material and the land fillable material.
Claims21
-23 (canceled)
A collection apparatus comprising
- a. a first outer container, the first outer container having:
- i. an exterior, wherein the exterior is not adjacent to the exterior of a second outer container,
- ii. an interior,
- iii. a first opening;
- and
- iv. a second opening;
- b. a door, the door mounted to the first outer container, the door positioned so as to allow access to the interior of the first outer container through the second opening;
- c. a unidirectional depositing member, the unidirectional depositing member communicating between the exterior and the interior of the first outer container through the first opening in the first outer container, wherein the unidirectional depositing member comprises:
- i. a scoop unidirectional depositing member, the scoop unidirectional depositing member including a scoop mounted within the first opening, the scoop sized so as to accept waste pharmaceutical containing materials to be deposited into the interior, the scoop rotatable about an axis;
- or
- ii. the unidirectional depositing member consists of a slit through the exterior;
- and
- d. an inner container, the inner container positioned within the interior of the first outer container.
A process comprising:
- a. supplying a collection apparatus, the collection apparatus comprising
- i. a first outer container, the first outer container having:
- 1. an exterior, wherein the exterior is not adjacent to the exterior of a second outer container,
- 2. an interior,
- 3. a first opening;
- and
- 4. a second opening;
- ii. a door, the door mounted to the first outer container, the door positioned so as to allow access to the interior of the first outer container through the second opening;
- iii. a unidirectional depositing member, the unidirectional depositing member communicating between the exterior and the interior of the first outer container through the first opening in the first outer container, wherein the unidirectional depositing member comprises:
- 1. a scoop unidirectional depositing member, the scoop unidirectional depositing member including a scoop mounted within the first opening, the scoop rotatable about an axis;
- or
- 2. the unidirectional depositing member consists of a slit through the exterior;
- and
- iv. an inner container, the inner container positioned within the interior of the first outer container;
- and
- b. receiving pharmaceutical containing materials into the interior through the unidirectional depositing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.