A Nesquehoning medical waste facility is asking the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to allow it to expand its operations.

Alpha Bio-Med Services LLC, known as Sharps Compliance Inc. has applied for a major permit modification at its business at 600 Industrial Road.

The application asks to increase the maximum permitted daily waste acceptance at the facility from 82 tons per day to 123 tons per day. It would also include installing a third autoclave unit and other necessary equipment at the site.

According to the permit application, an estimated 50 employees would be employed at the facility, which handles medical waste processing from doctors’ offices, dentists, hospitals, schools, veterinarians and nursing homes.

It uses a steam disinfection system to process the waste before shredding it and transporting it to an off-site disposal facility.

The application states that pharmaceutical, pathological or chemotherapeutic wastes are not treated at the facility, but are transported off-site to a proper disposal facility.

Sharps Compliance, with its main headquarters in Houston, Texas, has been operating in Nesquehoning since late 2016. The company had purchased the 40,000-square-foot shell building from the Carbon Chamber and Economic Development Corp.

Attempts to reach Sharps Compliance officials for comment were unsuccessful.