The landmark boiler house chimney at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) will turn purple on 03 December as part of the global #purplelightup movement celebrating International Day of […]
Stand aside Birmingham, Leeds is England’s fly tipping capital with dead animals and medical waste dumped. Leeds is the country’s fly-tipping capital – with more illegally dumped rubbish than anywhere […]
Fly tipping has never been worse in Birmingham as more rubbish than ever dumped. Figures published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reveal there were 17,575 incidents […]
Clinical hospital waste –including body parts – has been left piled up in bags at a site for nearly a year. A woman who lives nearby claims her life has been […]
A concerned lady says she is disgusted after seeing the amount of waste dumped along the Humber, which included “used tattoo needles”. She took the shocking images (below), which show […]
Staff infected by dirty needles in drug-ridden jails have won £734,000 in payouts in last 3 years. The settlements, including legal costs, were made to as few as nine people, […]
Hospital wastewater reveals a substantial pool of antibiotic resistance, as both antibiotic use and average patient length of stay were linked to greater abundance of antibiotic resistant genes detected in […]
It seems rather unlikely, but Nottinghamshire Live is reporting that a new site to deal with asbestos and clinical waste will be built on an industrial park near Worksop. It means […]
Plans to build a medical waste incinerator in Kilmarnock have been scrapped. Waste Energy Partners wanted to launch the facility, which would have also burned hazardous waste, in the Moorfield […]
Waste Energy Partners want to launch the service in the Moorfield Industrial Park, near Braehead Foods, if an application gets the green light from East Ayrshire Council. he firm aims […]
A valuable Sharps and Overdose Awareness training session coming up, Manchester on 22 July. And it’s free! About this Event What is a sharp and what injuries can they cause? The […]
The ongoing ‘HIV blood’ scandal inquiry continues and it was noticeable that one witness has spoken of the distress caused to her and her late husband when the clinical waste […]
The company contracted to solve Scotland’s clinical waste crisis is facing opposition to its plans for a new treatment plant. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman admitted last week that toxic NHS material, […]
Incinerating clinical waste from health boards across Scotland is bringing around £8,000 a week into Shetland Islands Council’s (SIC) coffers. The SIC started taking in low grade NHS waste such […]
It started out as just a normal day at the tip for Mike Lewis of Carmarthen. The air was changing as the season altered from summer to autumn. The temperature […]
A furious pensioner has told how her home is now plagued by rats and putrid pongs from an abandoned medical waste depot. The lady revealed vermin have overrun her garden since […]
Well, it’s spreading among Local Authorities who are presumably cash poor and struggling to balance their books. After news of ‘threats’ to charge for domiciliary clinical waste collections when local […]
After the barrage of complaints and very real safety implications following Fenland Council decision to halt clinical waste collections due to a ‘lack of funding’ they now look set to operate […]
Harbour House raises concerns after waiting two weeks for clinical waste removal. The West Bay care home is still waiting for their bins to be emptied by contractor PHS, with […]
As we previously reported, new rulings mean sharps boxes will not be able to be taken to GP surgeries. Fenland District Council will instead be responsible who say it will be […]
Monthly clinical waste collections were axed by the council weeks before yellow bags were mysteriously dumped in Swindon. Swindon Borough Council, which moved swiftly to remove the nine sacks left […]
Bags containing IV tubes and “pooled blood” were found in the street by a “shocked” passer-by. Toby Robson found several biohazard bags to his “horror and disgust” in Prospect Place, […]
In Namaimo, Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called to deal with explosive materials found inside sharps container at tent city. Nanaimo RCMP say it was the right call to […]
Needles and clinical waste are not being collected raising fears about disease and the safety of bin collectors. Castle Point Council is due to take over the collection of clinical […]
Fenland Council plans, or is that a threat (?), to impose charges to patients/householders for domiciliary clinical waste collections rumble on. The driver has been a decision by the NHS […]
A Mum is reported to be “utterly shocked” after being told she will have to pay to dispose of her 12-year-old diabetic daughter’s needles, and quite rightly so. A council […]
A health and safety expert has criticised Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC) for failing to provide a clinical waste collection service. Tony Whittaker, of Artillery Road, Saighton, said the […]
Street cleaners in a northeastern Egyptian city found a medical waste bag in a garbage bin filled with human liver, other organs, and surgical instruments. Mahmoud, a cleaner, said he […]
Scientists have found 29 different types of pharmaceutical drugs in York’s two rivers. Samples from the Foss and the Ouse contained a range of drugs – including antidepressants and antibiotics. The […]
In a comment that perhaps rates as the most arrogant and ill-advised comment ever made regarding sharps safety, health ‘officials’ are urging Londoners to become more educated about discarded needles […]