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Medical Waste Management Inc. (MWM) is a very unique company that provides highly specialized and highly regulated services to a most important market - Ontario healthcare.

With a core management team, each having earned more than 10 years of specialized industry experience, a comprehensive business plan was developed for an Ontario based medical waste service company that would set a new global standard for this unique service. In mid 1998, with the financial support of our 65% majority owners (Brampton Brick Ltd. (Medical Waste Management was launched.

After developing the required specifications and identifying the best available medical waste processing technologies available, an ideal site was selected in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and the required Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE) approval applications were submitted. The original MWM management team moved into our new home in November, just in time to take delivery of our new equipment, for installation and commissioning.

In February 1999, after more than six weeks of MOE witnessed commissioning testing, MWM was formally approved for commercial operations.

Our new operating standards and un-compromised commitment to customer satisfaction and environmental compliance made an immediate impact on Ontario healthcare facilities and new business came on board at a brisk pace. By the end of 1999, MWM had had earned the respect of both industry and regulatory authorities and provided the highest standard of service to more than 1000 customers, including over 20 hospitals.

Now that credibility had been established, MWM commenced high level consultations with the MOE to specify, install and commission Ontario’s first and only environmentally superior medical & pharmaceutical waste incinerator and accompanying pollution control system. This to position MWM as the Ontario solution to the Ontario medical waste challenge and to eliminate the need to export hazardous waste to the US for destruction, in old incinerators that did not meet Ontario’s higher regulatory standards for emission control.

After more than a year of continuous consultation, numerous public meetings, zoning variances, open houses and a rigorous formal public hearing process, in the spring of 2001 MWM was issued a formal approval to incinerate medical & pharmaceutical waste in Brampton.

Equipped with this exceptional technology, MWM demonstrated yet another new standard for environmentally sound emissions for healthcare waste incinerators. Regulatory authorities were so impressed with our low-level emissions, that in December of 2001, the Minister of Environment announced that the remaining 46 hospital incinerators - all of which are operating without any pollution control systems whatsoever, would have one year to meet our new emission standards, or shut down.

Not being a company that rests on its accomplishments, in late 2001 MWM launched North America’s first state-of-the-art reusable sharps containment and management program, through Sharpsmart Canada Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture between MWM and the Daniels Corporation of Australia.

This revolutionary reusable sharps container and associated robotic container processing technology is the safest and most environmentally sound system for disposing of used needles, blades and broken glass, anywhere in the world and Ontario hospitals were the first hospitals in North America to gain access to this program. This new initiative has been so well received, that our implementation schedule is completely booked through July and well into August. In addition to dramatically reducing healthcare worker needlestick injuries, the Sharpsmart program reduces plastic waste volumes for sharps disposal by more than 50%.

Concepts, high standards, exceptional technologies and uncompromised commitments to customer satisfaction and environmental compliance are all key components to success in our business however, without the best people in the business, MWM could never have accomplished what it has in such a short period. Our people make our company and without a doubt, we have the best team in the business.

MWM is armed with the most technologically advanced medical waste processing & transportation equipment available, operated by the most qualified and competent staff possible, guided by the most experienced and creative management team in the business. As such, MWM has positioned itself as THE industry leader in healthcare waste management and is ideally positioned for continued expedient growth within Canada, as well as for expansion & acquisition across North America and Internationally.

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