About Antos
Est. 1985
Antos Environmental has been at the forefront of corporate environmentalism for over 30 years. Our dedication is to helping organizations worldwide significantly elevate their organizational performance as it relates to sustainability and resource management.
Our Clients
Our clients are committed to achieving extraordinary results & together we have had amazing success.
Tony Schifano
CEO & Founder
Tony Schifano, Founder and CEO of Antos Environmental, started his career in healthcare. His dedication and commitment to this industry began in the late 1970’s. While working in a NYC hospital in the mid 80’s he witnessed a unique moment in time, a perfect storm of events; the AIDS Epidemic, syringes & medical waste debris washing up on the shores of beaches, Dept of Sanitation workers getting punctured with needles at the landfill, and the CDC reacting with Universal Precautions. This created an unprecedented increase in medical waste volume never before seen in the history of the industry. Tony, led by an entrepreneurial spirit, quickly began a medical waste disposal company and began helping hospitals dispose of this enormous waste volume. However, he soon realized the potential savings through better waste management and started thinking of the internal management strategies which launched Antos in 1989. One of the first ‘green-minded’ waste reduction management companies, committed to reducing hospital waste and its associated costs, while developing a culture committed to sustainability at every level of the organization. For over 25 years Tony and his team have clearly defined this creative and innovative path that has set a mandate for living and business.
- Co-Wrote the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 for the US Federal Government
- Updated Medical Waste Regulations in 17 US States includign: New York, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco
- Reported to the US Congree on Waste Management
- Expert for the National Solid Waste Management Association and the Bio-Medical Treatment Institute
- Original member of the Bio-Medical Waste Treatment Institute, a subcommittee of the National Municipal Waste Management Agency in Washington, DC.
- Co-Creator of Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) with US EPA & AHA
- Exclusive Consultant for the AHA on Sustainability.
- Co-Wrote a new law and regulation for the handling and disposal of biomedical waste for Puerto Rico in collaboration with the EQB and DEP (2016)
- Named Director of Green Hospital Initiative in Shanghai, China (2019) and liaison for green product implementation.
- Keynote speaker at the 2016 & 2017 Puerto Rican Hospital Association Conference
- Original Member of the Bio-Medical Waste Treatment Institute, a subcommittee of the National Municipal Waste Management Agency in Washington, DC.
- 2019: Appointed the Director of the Green Hospital Initiative in Shanghai for the USAT-Unihealth Medical Technology Center, addressing environmental health issues in the PRC.
- Keynote speaker at the first CleanMed Conference
- Awarded by the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) for extraordinary contributions and support of the 17th Conference
- 2016 updated the regulation for Handling & Disposal of Biomedical Waste for the US Territory of Puerto Rico in collaboration with the local EQB (Junta De Calidad Ambiental)
- Hired by Tetra Tech in 2005 as a medical waste technology consultant contracted by the Environmental Protection Bureau of Shanghai to assess the medical waste generation and treatment process in the surrounding region. Evaluated both the internal operations of the hospitals as well as the external treatment facilities to identify potential solutions to the extraordinary volume that was being produced.
Press
“What a Waste”
The Public Health Podcast Sustainability expert Tony Schifano, Founder and CEO of Antos Environmental, joins Ryan and Katie to discuss the massive issue of waste management
The Weekly Journal: CEO of Antos Environmental on Campaign to Sustainability, Waste Reduction
Tony Schifano is a man with a mission. Aware that Puerto Rico has a waste management problem, the CEO of Antos Environmental believes that the
Simon’s Rock Hosts Serious Trash Talk with Waste-Reduction Management Firm
GREAT BARRINGTON — A focus on education and a shift in attitude can go a long way to reduce the carbon footprint of a community
Weaving a Sustainable Mindset into the Campus Culture
The summers are getting hotter, the winters are more extreme. There is a concentration of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is so large it’s