From: Ian
Category: Miscellaneous
Date: 20 Aug 2009
Time: 19:17:58 +0200
Remote Name: 81.154.186.120
Rubbish collection service 'sorry' after clinical waste left on streets
BIRMINGHAM’S rubbish collection department has apologised to a housewife after failing to collect clinical waste bags from her drive for three weeks. The waste collection service, which fines people who regularly put their black bags out early, has not expected the same standards from its own staff this summer.
Mrs June Price, who cares for her disabled husband Trevor, has left the yellow sacks of personal and medical clinical waste outside her home in Pinewood Drive, Bartley Green every Thursday morning as expected. But for the last three weeks they have been left behind only to be picked up days later and only after she has complained. Now the City Council has said it is sorry and has agreed to carry out a review to ensure it does not happen again. Clinical waste collections are free of charge to householders in Birmingham who need to dispose of medical waste as a result of treatment at home, including needles.
Of course, when these things go wrong, it's always a rare incident, terribly sorry, it won't happen again, and all that. But sadly, these incidents are far from common, as we report regularly here on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum
see also
Clinical_wastes_in_the_community_local_authority_management_of_discarded_drug_litter.pdf
and
Clinical_wastes_in_the_community_Local_Authority_management_of_clinical_wastes_from_domestic_premises.pdf