26 Facts About Stericycle

Stericycle is a compliance company that specializes in collecting and disposing regulated substances, such as medical waste and sharps, pharmaceuticals, hazardous waste, and providing services for recalled and expired goods.

Stericycle was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bannockburn, Illinois, with many more bases of operation around the world, including Medical waste incinerators in Utah and North Carolina.

Stericycle serves myriad small businesses, which include outpatient clinics, medical and dental offices, abortion clinics, veterinary and animal hospitals, funeral homes, home healthcare agencies, body art studios, and long-term and sub-acute care facilities.

Stericycle has been harshly criticized by residents living near their incinerators and environmentalists across the globe.

Currently, Stericycle is being investigated by the state of Utah for burning hazardous, radioactive waste above legal levels at their North Salt Lake location.

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The investigations are in response to Stericycle's alleged falsification of records to hide the alleged illegal quantity burning near Foxboro Elementary in North Salt Lake.

Stericycle has a presence in 21 countries with approximately 640 locations worldwide.

Stericycle offers all services, except for hazardous waste management, in the United Kingdom.

Stericycle's was preceded in her role by Charlie Alutto, and prior to that, by Mark Miller, who took over from founder Dr James Sharp in 1989.

Stericycle has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ since 1996 and has 10 people on its board of directors.

Stericycle was founded in 1989 by Dr James Sharp based on his business plan to address the Syringe Tide, where hypodermic needles and other medical waste washed up to the shores of New York and New Jersey.

Stericycle began to expand internationally in 1998, starting with Mexico and Canada.

Since then, Stericycle has created services, tools and resources for healthcare professionals not only in the United States and Mexico, but in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

In 1999, Stericycle began offering safety and compliance training services with the launch of its Stericycle Steri-Safe OSHA Compliance program.

In 2003, Stericycle entered sharps waste management, acquiring Scherer Healthcare's existing practice and occasionally referring to parts of the service as “Bio Systems” in markets like Ireland.

In 2004, Stericycle began providing medical waste solutions in the United Kingdom with more international growth following.

In 2008, Stericycle acquired its first hazardous waste removal company and in 2010 started its Communications Solutions business line.

In 2010, Stericycle began to include patient notification services with the acquisition of NotifyMD.

Stericycle offers secure information destruction, for both paper and hard drive, through Shred-it.

In 2018, Stericycle joined the National Safety Council as the medicine disposal partner for a nationwide campaign.

In 2019, Stericycle partnered with the National Safety Council to launch the Opioids at Work Employer Toolkit.

Stericycle operates a fund that allows employees to support other employees in times of hardship.

Stericycle currently operates the fund in the US and Canada, and plans to expand it to Latin America in 2019.

Since 2011, Stericycle has supported Feed My Starving Children, an organization benefiting malnourished children around the world.

Stericycle has partnered with the American Diabetes Association in 2019.

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In 2011, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality alleged Stericycle "failed to dispose of pathological waste according to approved methods of treatment and disposition" in violation of 30 Tex.