Resources for Innovators - A Supplier Expo and Pitch Event (Boston, MA)

SUMMARY

Triumvirate Environmental is a leading provider of enterprise waste management and environmental services to Healthcare, Education, Life Sciences, and Industrial markets. Whether you're seeking to broadly reduce environmental waste, implement safer and more compliant waste management practices, or develop green and sustainable solutions – we can help you. 

Triumvirate Environmental is the innovator in the EH&S space for life sciences companies. Since the company’s inception, Triumvirate has dedicated its resources to creating services that disrupt and improve the EH&S by looking to the future. Here are a few examples:

RED2GREEN

Traditional disposal of regulated medical waste is costly and harmful to the environment. It’s traditionally picked up from life sciences organization and brought to an incinerator or dumped into a landfill. 1.6 billion pounds of RMW are dumped into landfills each year. Knowing that 75% of RMW is plastic and it takes up to 1,000 years for plastic to decompose, Triumvirate saw a problem and set to fix it.

Years of toil and innovation led to the development of the Red2Green solution. Now Triumvirate Environmental can offer a sustainable, cost neutral regulated medical waste disposal alternative. Here are the details on our process.

Sterilization: Non-recyclable waste is treated and disposed of according to the conditions of our operating permits. All recyclable wastes are sterilized. This machine accepts untreated RMW at a rate of approximately 2000 pounds per hour. At this rate, one 8-hour day saves enough energy to power a full-body MRI machine through over 3400 scans. Once within the system, the RMW is shredded and exposed to a combination of water and calcium-oxide a FIFRA-registered disinfectant. Resultant waste is flash heated. It exposes medical waste to 300 -400% increase in temperature quickly, assisting in inoculating any bugs. This process has proven to be effective on biocontaminants to better than a log 6 kill. This exceeds the legal requirements for declassifying the materials as hazardous by 1000 times as verified by an independent testing laboratory. 

The Production Process
After all regulated medical waste and other waste has been sterilized through Triumvirate’s sterilization process, the material is carried on a conveyor, dumped into a collection container and transported to Plant 2. 

The material is dried and then goes through several additional steps before it’s ready for distribution. Here are the steps: 

Physical Separation: Once sterilized, the materials which formerly were RMW are physically separated to remove and recycle components that do not lend themselves to the manufacturing process. Steps taken to separate these materials include magnets as well as an air classification system. These materials include metals and glass.

Material Optimization: To ensure an optimal plastic lumber product that meets end-user requirements, Triumvirate then blends and compounds the sterilized material with other co-polymers, colorants and conditioners.

Extrusion Process: The blended material is extruded into molds to create the final lumber product. The molds are heated and the plastic is melted to take the form of the molds.

Cooling & Testing: After melting, the plastic sets as the mold cools and then ejects the lumber. The resultant plastic lumber is tested prior to shipment. One 8-hour day of recycling RMW into plastic saves enough energy to power a full body MRI machine through over 3400 scans.

The plastic lumber is used in a variety of products including construction material, landscape timbers, farm tools and speed bumps. While the cost of regulated medical waste disposal is expected to increase 50% over the next 2 years, reselling this repurposed material allows Triumvirate to process our clients' regulated medical waste at a neutral cost. All Triumvirate's plastic lumber is created with a focus on safety, sustainability and reliability. 

JUMPSTART

Triumvirate's JumpStart program is designed to catapault your life sciences company intoregulatory compliance and operational excellence. This program is designed for large pharmaceutical organizations, small biotech startups, and everything in between. Here's how it works:

After assessing risks and identifying gaps, Triumvirate's service team works closely with your staff to integrate environmental, health & safety programs into existing business systems to help reduce risk and assure compliance. Following this assessment, we will assemble a team of experts based on your custom needs and compliance goals.

VENTURESTART

Triumvirate's VentureStart program helps early-stage biotech and pharmaceutical companies navigate the regulatory environment, obtain permits and licenses, and build environmental, health and safety programs. VentureStart is an efficient, effective, and economical approach to quickly identifying regulatory requirements and integrating and streamlining solutions into your everyday business processes. No other providers have the expertise and talent base necessary in the R&D and FDA regulated manufacturing arena to assure regulatory compliance in all these areas. Through VentureStart, we're able to bring our proven best-in-class programs to companies new to the space.

We'll help you stay in compliance, reduce your risk, and maintain business continuity as you grow. Once all of your plans and permits are in place, our consultants will advise you on how to support these plans while taking future growth into account.