PDT® Life Cycle Assessment

Obtains this PDT® digital certificate the organization that has quantified the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service through a life cycle study (Life Cycle Assessment – LCA) and provides for the initial and periodic monitoring of potential environmental impacts during the entire lifetime, as declared in the PDT® digital certificate issued in Blockchain by IQC Srl

To highlight the contribution of the Company to the sustainable development, relating the informative management of the environmental performances of the own product/process/service with environmental claims and the characteristics declared in the PDT digital certificate. The continuous and discreet detection of the relevant information allow the trackability, the evolution monitoring and the assurance of inalterability and immutability of the characteristics declared in the PDT® digital certificate in Blockchain

• ISO 14040:2006 – Environmental Management – Assessment of the life cycle – Principles and framework of reference • ISO 14044:2006 – Environmental Management – Assessment of the life cycle – Requirements and guidelines

Università Politecnica delle Marche – Life and Environmental Sciences (DISVA)

DISVA Report of June 29th, 2021 1. General aspects 1.1 Objective of the analysis 1.2 Purpose of LCA study, system boundaries and functional unit 2. Analysis of the inventory 3. Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) 3.1 Classification and characterisation 3.2 Standardization and weighing 4. Conclusions

First scenario: waste treated in the Newster sterilizer Second Scenario: untreated waste, assessed in the dual use scenario of PP containers (scenario 2a) and PE envelopes contained in cardboard boxes (scenario 2b)

First scenario: waste treated in the Newster sterilizer Second Scenario: untreated waste, assessed in the dual use scenario of PP containers (scenario 2a) and PE envelopes contained in cardboard boxes (scenario 2b)

The study highlighted a significant environmental advantage of the solution proposed by Newster System S.r.l., compared to the most common management system of potentially infectious healthcare waste. The main strengths that have been identified in this case of study are: - The amount reduction of urban solid waste to be managed - The waste classification from sterilization as urban solid waste which allows it to be treated in common waste-to-energy plants - Simpler waste management avoids daily dedicated transport - Abolition of disposable containers. These strengths are emphasized in cases where the hospital sanitary waste needs to be treated in waste incinerators for hazardous waste away from the production site

The selected functional unit is represented by the daily quantity that is treated by the sterilizer at the facility in Rimini, which is equal to 240 kg of waste (4 treatments of 60 kg per day)

The production phase of the sterilizer has been excluded from the system boundaries as it is considered to be amortised by the minimum instrument lifetime of at least 10 years. Instead, production and disposal of all consumable materials have been taken into account

First Scenario: waste treated in the Newster sterilizer Second Scenario: untreated waste, assessed in the dual use scenario of PP containers (scenario 2a) and PE envelopes contained in cardboard boxes (scenario 2b)

Newster System S.r.l. has developed an innovative system of sterilization of potentially infectious healthcare waste that can be used directly at the health facility. At the end of the treatment, the waste can be classified as an urban waste (CER 20.03.01), suited to be dispose at appropriate landfills or incinerators. The high performances of this sterilization system avoid the most common management for potentially infectious healthcare waste (stored in special containers), which includes a daily transport to special waste incinerators. This study has taken into consideration the specific case of an accredited facility in the Rimini province, which has installed the Newster System S.r.l. sterilizer as an alternative to traditional management of potentially infectious healthcare waste

Environmental sustainability analysis of different management strategies for potentially infectious healthcare waste