A Global Leader With A Full Suite Of Solutions

Around the world every day, organizations pledge to take care of their customers, their communities, and the environment through the products and services they provide and the unique ways they deliver on them. Stericycle helps to support hundreds of thousands of organizations in keeping those promises with the many services we provide.

Since the early 1990s, Stericycle has been a trusted partner to veterinary clinics and animals hospitals. We began offering regulated medical waste disposal, including sharps disposal, but have expanded to provide many other valuable services to protect staff, reduce business risk, sustain the environment, and increase client engagement.

To further support compliance and protect both your staff and clients, we offer Steri-Safe Solutions. Our on-site and online resources can help your facility fulfill training requirements and other challenges of OSHA.

Stericycle also serves veterinary clinics and animal hospitals with a suite of communication solutions to help you establish and maintain strong relationships with clients. We can support the growth of your facility with after-hours answering services, appointment scheduling, appointment reminders, and outreach, just to name a few.

At Stericycle, engaged team members aren’t just a piece of the puzzle. They are our driving force, our secret to success. This is a company that values ideas and action. We seek to engage the inspired and the motivated, the team members excited about making things happen. Take a moment to learn more about our unique culture. Inspired Team Members make for loyal customers and satisfied shareholders…that’s our philosophy!

Our Core Purpose

To help our customers fulfill their promise by providing solutions that protect people and brands, promote health, and safeguard the environment.

Our Stericycle Core Values

Integrity: We are honest and open in our interactions with others. When making decisions, we always do the right thing.

Accountability: We take ownership of our own actions and focus on solutions. We deliver on our promises.

One Team. One Goal: We work as a team, no matter the goal. We share successes and failures together and work to make things better.

Customer First: We provide service that is valuable for our customers and exceeds their expectations. We respect the value of both our internal and external customers.

Enjoying our Work: We have a culture that fosters team member engagement and loyalty. We do so with a spirit of camaraderie.

Continuous Improvement: We provide the most value while consuming the fewest resources. We embrace the talents of the people who do the work.

Our philosophy is what we call the Circle of Growth. It starts with our Team Members. If we can create an environment where Team Members enjoy and excel in what they do, it leads to Customer Loyalty. When customers are loyal, it sustains and grows our Profitable Business. When our business prospers, we can reinvest that profit back into our company and our people to provide better resources to do their jobs. This results in Team Member Loyalty and the cycle repeats.

Innovating From the Start

In the late 1980s, illegally disposed medical waste begins washing ashore of the Atlantic Coast. Shortly thereafter the U.S. Congress passes the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 and the U.S. medical waste industry is born.

About the same time, Dr. James Sharp develops a business plan that focuses on helping hospitals manage their medical waste in an environmentally sound and cost effective manner; this leads to the formation of Stericycle in 1989.

Growth Strategies Emerge

In 1992, Mark Miller joins the company and accelerates our growth. Over the next 5 years, Stericycle acquires more than 9 medical waste companies and begins to build a national infrastructure. In 1996, Stericycle goes public on the NASDAQ exchange.

Expanding Our Reach

Between 1998 and 2000, Stericycle begins expanding into new territories. Our international footprint grows to include Mexico, Canada, and the U.K. We also launch the Steri-Safe OSHA Compliance Service, which quickly becomes a flagship offering and diversifies the company service portfolio beyond management of wastes.

Initial Diversification

In the hospital arena, Stericycle acquires BioSystems reusable sharps containers and launches Sharps Management Services. Further leveraging our core competencies in reverse logistics and compliance, Stericycle enters into the pharmaceutical returns business in 2003. Three years later, we add product recall and retrieval services to the portfolio and Stericycle Expert Solutions gets its start. Around the same time, Stericycle enters new markets in Europe, with acquisitions in the U.K.

Recognition of Success

In 2007, Stericycle stocks splits for a second time, emphasizing the strong growth of the company. In 2008, Stericycle breaks $1 billion in revenue for the first time and the company is added to the S&P 500 list.

Multiple New Markets

Between 2008 and 2011, Stericycle makes acquisitions that enter the company into 6 new countries: Ireland, Chile, Portugal, Romania, Brazil, and Japan. Leveraging our expertise in hazardous waste to support both the healthcare and the Expert Returns customers, Stericycle makes its first acquisition in the hazardous waste area and gains the retail hazardous waste service line. And, in 2010, Stericycle enters the communications services space to leverage its expertise in call center management and provide additional value-added services to its healthcare customers.

Completing the First 25 Years

Coming into 2014 and the company’s 25th anniversary, Stericycle has grown to over $2 billion in revenue and was added to the Forbes Global 200 list. The company is positioned as the one of the leading regulated waste service providers in every market served, now including the Republic of Korea. Our Expert Solutions business has completed over 4,000 recalls including the largest recall ever. Stericycle Communication Solutions is among the leading answering services in healthcare area. Our retail and hazardous waste dramatically expanded, becoming Stericycle Environmental Solutions and serving more than 40,000 locations.

Stericycle Today

With the recent acquisition of Shred-it, the company added a new and highly complementary service line to its portfolio. Today, our full line of specialized of business-to-business services includes:

• Brand protection services
• Environmental and sustainability solutions
• Patient and customer communication services
• Regulated waste management and compliance
• Secure information destruction

Including Shred-it, Stericycle operates in 23 different countries around the globe and employs more than 24,000 team members.