} Sharps Compliance Offers New Safe Disposal
System for Home Users of<br>Needles, Syringes; Users in
8% of U.S. Homes Create Hazards
for<br>Community-Wide Infection<br><br><br> April 27,
2001<br><br><br><br> HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2001 via
NewsEdge<br>Corporation -<br><br> Sharps Compliance Corp. (OTCBB:SCOM)
has completed an<br>agreement with Waste Management,
Inc. (NYSE:WMI) to begin a pilot program to<br>provide
safe disposal systems for individuals who use needles
or syringes in<br>their home. Under the program,
Waste Management will make the Sharps<br>Disposal by
Mail(TM) System available to Waste Management customers
in<br>Orange County, Calif., Denver, and Orlando, Fla.<br><br>
"The primary focus of this program is to
help<br>self-injectors handle these hazards safely in the home," said
Dr. Burt<br>Kunik, president and CEO of Sharps
Compliance Corp. "The system is designed<br>to protect
family members, neighbors and others from injury and
infection."<br><br> More than three percent of the U.S. population
and<br>individuals in eight percent of households use "sharps" --
syringes,<br>needles, lancets, sutures, catheter needles, or any item
that can puncture<br>the skin -- in treating
conditions like diabetes, multiple
sclerosis,<br>infertility, migraines, allergies and hemophilia. Under the
new program,<br>these individuals can order the
disposal system through Waste Management.<br>When the
sharps container is full, it is secured and placed in a
postage<br>pre-paid return box and sent through the U.S. Mail
directly to a resource<br>recovery facility operated by
Sharps Environmental Services of Texas,
Inc.<br>Certified proof of the destruction is then sent to the
individual.<br><br> "This initiative is invaluable for the education
of the<br>public on the safety issue of protecting
others," said Kathy J. Berkowitz,<br>president-elect of
the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
"Each<br>day, our diabetes educators are asked by patients how
to handle used needles<br>safely."<br><br> The
Sharps Disposal by Mail(TM) System is easy to use
and<br>meets all state and federal regulations. For more
information on the system,<br>call 1-877-WASTEMD.<br><br>
Waste Management, Inc. is its industry's leading
provider<br>of comprehensive waste management services. Based in
Houston, the Company<br>serves municipal, commercial,
industrial and residential customers<br>throughout North
America.<br><br> Headquartered in Houston, Sharps Compliance Corp.
is the<br>nation's leader in designing
cost-effective, regulatory-compliant systems<br>for containment,
transportation, destruction, and tracking of medical
waste<br>generated in the home health care setting. Sharps
Compliance Corp.'s common<br>stock trades on the OTC
Bulletin Board under the symbol SCOM. For
further<br>information, visit the Sharps Web site at
www.sharpsinc.com.<br><br> Any forward-looking statements in this release
are made<br>pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions
of the Private Securities<br>Litigation Act of 1995.
Investors are cautioned that actual results may<br>differ
substantially from such forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking<br>statements involve risks and uncertainties including, but
not limited to,<br>continued acceptance of the
Company's products and services in the<br>marketplace,
competitive factors, new products and technological
changes,<br>dependence upon third-party vendors, customer relations,
government<br>supervision and regulation, changes in industry practices,
changes in<br>third-party expense reimbursement
procedures, and other risks detailed in<br>the Company's
periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.<br><br><br> CONTACT: Sharps Compliance Corp., Houston | Burt
Kunik,<br>800/772-5657 | or | Sommers & Associates, Houston | Tom
Sommers or Melanie<br>Fahey, 713/222-1600