While there are a number of treatment technologies available in the world today, Honua has committed itself to using only tested and cost-effective treatment systems that perform from an operational standpoint. Thus, the equipment must offer the following benefits: low capital acquisition cost, low maintenance, low operational cost, ease of use, high reliability, high efficacy, and high environmental integrity. For this reason, Honua only specifies equipment that has years of actual operational use in the United States medical waste treatment industry.

The waste stream that the Pyrolytic Destructor™ is specifically designed to destroy includes pathological wastes from surgery and autopsy (e.g., body parts, human and animal tissue samples and cultures, placentas, whole blood and blood products); chemotherapy wastes (e.g., all materials that come into contact with chemotherapy agents, including polyvinyl chloride ("PVC") plastics); laboratory wastes (e.g., blood cultures, serums, blood samples); and pharmaceutical wastes (e.g., expired drugs, confiscated narcotics, and related drug paraphernalia).

Honua also employs autoclaving, a time-tested high heat medical waste treatment technology, to efficiently and cost-effectively render large volumes of medical "red bag" waste (e.g., contaminated bandages, dressings, cotton, gauze, paper, gowns, bedding, latex gloves, masks, suction canisters and sponges) and "sharps" (e.g. contaminated needles, syringes, syringes containing fluids, scalpels, and glass test tubes, pipettes and petri dishes) non-infectious and safe for disposal.

Honua also uses its proprietary heat recovery systems, heat recovery boilers and thermal energy cogeneration control equipment to ensure that medical waste treatment facilities utilizing the Pyrolytic Destructor and autoclave systems together can effectively treat 100% of the components of the medical waste stream with only the energy used in and produced from treating 20% of that same waste stream.

Finally, Honua employs proprietary sharps containment and washing systems to enable medical waste facilities and hospitals to safely handle and reuse its reusable sharps containers, which amounts to a dramatic cost savings when compared to conventional disposable sharps containers.