#### Pharmaceutical waste is drugs, remedies or medicine that have expired or are no longer required to treat a patient. 

This also includes the destruction of recalled, overrun and expired pharmaceuticals and the destruction of raw materials generated during pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Pharmaceutical waste poses a risk to people and the environment, therefore cannot be disposed of as general waste. It has special handling, packaging and disposal requirements.

### Does Veolia collect pharmaceutical waste?

Veolia’s highly trained and experienced team can provide an end-to-end solution to safely collect, transport and destroy pharmaceutical waste at our thermal destruction facility in compliance with regulation.

We provide a range of compliant pharmaceutical waste containers and can tailor a collection schedule to suit your site’s needs. Your waste will be collected by our dedicated hazardous waste fleet and transported to a specialised waste facility, where we destroy the waste according to legislative requirements.

The waste stream is taken to our[ thermal destruction facility](https://www.veolia.com/anz/our-services/our-facilities/thermal-waste-destruction) and processed through an automatically controlled waste feed that ensures efficient combustion and complete destruction. The waste is exposed to a chamber temperature of 1000 degrees Celsius, and the emissions are controlled to surpass European Standards, which exceed current Australian standards. Our traceable service means we can provide a certificate of destruction or a witnessed destruction service.

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### Related services

    [Clinical Waste](/en-au/services/recycling-waste-services/hazardous-waste/medical-waste/clinical-waste)

    [Sharps Waste](/en-au/services/recycling-waste-services/hazardous-waste/medical-waste/sharps-waste)

    [Cytotoxic Waste](/en-au/services/recycling-waste-services/hazardous-waste/medical-waste/cytotoxic-waste)

 

 

 





 

 





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