Cartersville Council Approves Medical Sterilization Facility

CARTERSVILLE, GA - The Cartersville City Council has approved a special-use permit for an Atlanta-based company to open a medical waste transfer station near Peeples Valley Road.

Regulated Services, LLC will bring a medical waste sterilization facility to 375 Industrial Park Road.

The company will use a device to sterilize used medical equipment, which the company's attorney, Brandon Bowan described as similar to “pressure cooker technology.”

“It is simply making the waste very hot, at well over 200 degrees for quite a while over 30 minutes, at high pressure,” he said, according to The Daily-Tribune News.

“And when it comes out of that process, it goes through a shredder, which reduces its size by about 65%, so it can take up less of the landfill.”

According to plans the company will construct two buildings — one at 8,000 square feet and the other at 10,800 square feet — on the property.

A Regulated Services, LLC representative told council members, according to The Daily-Tribune News, that the truck volume would be around 30 trips a day to start and increase to around 150.

When done, the project would bring about 25-30 jobs to Cartersville.