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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They dump all the sharps I to a big autoclave (a big airtight chamber that is pressurized with superheated steam) to disinfect them and then they are dumped in a landfill.

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