Patent ID: 8100989

Claim:
A method for making a burnable fuel comprising: providing a used healthcare material comprising a complex mixture of components, where the components include pulp materials and/or polymer materials, and metal materials; disinfecting and/or partially sterilizing the used healthcare material to form a disinfected material; and sizing or sizing and partially or completely homogenizing the disinfected material into a particulate burnable fuel, where the fuel is suitable for use in cement plants, power plants, municipal incinerators for steam generation, or any other facility that burns fuels and converts heat derived from the burning of the fuel into a usable form of energy or for use of the heat and ash to make an end product, where a polymer content of the particulate burnable fuel is sufficient to render the particular burnable fuel capable of being shaped and to hold its shape after shaping, and where the heat content of the fuel is adjustable based on the mixture of components.