The Pharmafilter system arrests a cycle of environmental contamination that begins in hospitals
The Pharmafilter system safeguards the environment, patients and public health by decontaminating harmful waste and purifying hospital wastewater at its source
In the course of day-to-day operations, hospitals generate large volumes of contaminated, hazardous solid waste. Safe and effective management is critical at every stage of the journey from the bedside, to on-site storage, to final treatment.
Each step introduces the potential for cross-contamination, with risks to patients, staff, visitors, and waste service providers. At the same time, the disposal of hazardous waste is becoming increasingly costly.
Transporting this material off-site also creates wider societal and environmental risks, including accidents in transit and the carbon burden associated with energy-intensive transport and decontamination processes.
Hospitals also generate significant volumes of wastewater. This wastewater is a complex mixture of pharmaceuticals and multiple classes of antibiotics – often at high concentrations, including antibiotics of last resort. These compounds are designed to act on biological systems, and even trace releases into the environment pose a serious risk.
The result is a dangerous cycle of contamination: antibiotics and resistant microorganisms enter the environment through hospital waste and wastewater, evolve and spread, and ultimately return to healthcare settings in more resistant and harder-to-treat forms – posing a major threat to public health.
“A Safer, More Sustainable Solution”
Pharmafilter provides a highly engineered onsite solution that decontaminates solid hospital waste and purifies wastewater at source.
Instead of manually removing waste for off-site disposal, Pharmafilter installs intelligent shredding units close to the point of care – in wards, dirty utility rooms, and other nominated high-risk areas. These units immediately process clinical waste, offensive waste, sharps, single-use bedpans and urinals, food waste, and pharmaceutical waste.
The onsite Pharmafilter plant closes the loop – decontaminating waste and purifying wastewater pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, cytotoxins, and harmful pathogens before they enter the wider environment – creating a safer and cleaner environment for all. Once a licensed service or utility provider is engaged, hospitals remain fully compliant while significantly environmental impact, and operational burden.
The Pharmafilter onsite solution is a one-of-a-kind proven innovation that revolutionises how we handle and manage hospital waste and wastewater.
The Pharmafilter System is designed to:
Decontaminate all healthcare-complex generated waste categories and facilitate the proximity principles, removing risk
Purify wastewater and effluents by removing pharmacological, biological, chemical, microbiological, and micropollutant contaminants and multiple drug-resistant pathogens, including antimicrobial resistance (AMR) bacteria
Reduce contact moments to prevent the risk of hospital-acquired infections
Create a cleaner and more pleasant working environment for patients and staff
Collapse the hospital’s environmental footprint in relation to emissions, waste handling and enables progress towards Net Zero targets
Recycle, reduce, and repurpose purified wastewater and decontaminated waste streams
Generate renewable electrical and thermal energy
Provide real time and more detailed information in relation for reporting and management purposes
The cost of delivery of the system can be offset by the savings it generates and delivered via a capital program or hardware as a service (DBOF)
Address present and future regulatory demands
It is a proven, patented, and fully integrated solution
Contact us
Peter Kelly | CEO & COO
✉️ p.kelly@pharmafilterltd.com
Peter McKeown | Country Manager Ireland
26 Upper Pembroke St, Dublin 2.
✉️ p.mckeown@pharmafilterltd.com
📞 +3531 6787 666
Marty Magennis | Customer Relationship Manager
✉️ m.magennis@pharmafilterltd.com
Patrick Gleeson | Chairman & Finance Director
✉️ p.gleeson@pharmafilterltd.com
Eoin Gleeson | Country Manager UK
Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square, London WIJ 6BD
✉️ en.gleeson@pharmafilterltd.com
📞 +44 203 869 1672



