Apotefrotiras – Hospital waste Incinerator in Athens

HELECTOR is the leader in the field of Hazardous Medical Waste Management (HMWM), as it has constructed and operates since 2002, the only Medical Waste Incineration Plant (MWIP) in Greece, located in the Sanitary Landfill area in Ano Liossia. The owner of the project is the Special Inter-Collective Association of the Prefecture of Attica (EDSNA).

The plant at Ano Liossia is the first and the only licensed incineration facility for hospital waste currently in operation in Greece. Applying the latest technology and the best available techniques, the plant successfully receives and manages 4,000 tons of waste per year, from 1,800 medical unit points around Greece (hospitals, clinics, clinical laboratories, doctors’ private practice, dental clinics, veterinary clinics and pharmaceutical warehouses).

The highly trained personnel are ready to respond to the most demanding projects, such as the management of highly infectious waste, as well as all types of toxic waste.

The facility has a daily capacity of 30 tons, 2 independent incineration lines, temporary storage cooling chambers, internal wastewater management, a radiation control gate and a continuous monitoring system of exhaust gases. The 24-hour operation of the incineration plant ensures the lawful destruction of all collected waste within a short period and the provision of the necessary documents, such as full destruction certificates from the disposal facility within a few days.

Incineration is a treatment process that achieves:

• Complete Destruction of waste at temperatures above 1100 ºC.
• Complete destruction of infectious and toxic nature of the waste.
• Complete destruction of the commercial value of drug waste.
• Radioactivity control.
• Integrated waste management.
• 70% volume reduction.
• Principle of proximity.

It should be stressed that the main objective of the employees and management of the plant is to protect public health and the environment by promoting transparency and sustainability.

It is noted that, since August 2022, the concession contract of EDSNA’s Medical Waste Incineration Plant was signed and its operation for the next 23 years has been undertaken by EPALTHEA SA in which HELECTOR participates with 60%.