What do medical waste companies do with sharps containers?

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I work in a veterinary clinic. I know that we put sharps into sharps bins, which go into a big medical waste box when they are full, and that a medical waste company picks them up.
What happens after that?

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where i worked all bio waste, sharps etc. was put in drums then were sent to incinerator which reduced it to near nothing and what little was left was landfilled which was less than 1% that went in exp. 35gallon drum weighing 125 lbs would be about a ounce of residue maybe

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