Mapping healthcare waste management research: Past evolution, current challenges, and future perspectives towards a circular economy transition. Ranjbari M, Shams Esfandabadi Z, Shevchenko T, Chassagnon-Haned N, Peng W, Tabatabaei M, […]
A farming community is fighting the erection of a “26 metre clinical (medical) waste incinerator” near their land in Huntingdonshire. Chicken farmer Simon Bluff is among those concerned about Envar’s […]
Some St Ives residents are unhappy about potentially toxic chemicals that could be pumped from the incinerator stack of a new and innovative clinical waste incinerator. A recycling plant near […]
Stepping Hill Hospital bosses are investigating after an outdoor shipping container filled with used medical waste was left unlocked in the hospital grounds. Images sent to the Manchester Evening News show […]
A Welsh manufacturer, which is on a mission to tackle the world’s growing personal protective equipment (PPE) waste problem, is set to expand its global presence after securing its first […]
Uncollected clinical waste in Calderdale ‘causing health and safety issues’ The COVID-19 pandemic has affected waste services of all kinds, but health and safety issues arise if clinical waste is not […]
Yet another job opportunity! This time, it’s for a Hospital Waste Porter in Halifax. Job details Posting date: 20 July 2021 Salary: £8.91 per hour Hours: Full time Closing date: […]
General operatives required for clinical waste recycling plant, Schotts. No manual handling Disposal of pre-segregated hospital waste products Adherence to high standards of hygiene essential. Hours of work: 4 on 4 […]
Clinical waste operative job in Bournemouth Job Reference: PLJSDFKLFS Location: Bournemouth Salary: £9.00 per hour Contract Type: Temporary, Full time CLINICAL WASTE OPERATIVE/LOADER required for ongoing contract in Bournemouth that could lead to […]
Clinical Waste Operative/Driver based in Wigan. Hours per week and Shift times: Monday to Friday 5.30am – 1.30pm. 40 Hours Per week with regular overtime About T.C. Bibby and Sons […]
Veolia’s energy recovery facility in Tyseley, Birmingham, will soon use waste from a massive NHS Test and Trace laboratory to produce green energy for the city. The resource management company has been […]
A local councillor has condemned the dumping of “clinical waste” outside of a popular youth club in South Belfast. On Sunday, a number of bags of rubbish which appeared to […]
Staff have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plant which processes medical waste in North Lanarkshire. Firefighters were called to the site run by Tradebe Healthcare on […]
Stericycle and UPS Healthcare have entered a partnership to manage the reverse logistics of medical waste. As a result of the partnership, the transportation, treatment, and disposal of a number […]
Public Attitudes towards Medicinal Waste and Medicines Reuse in a ‘Free Prescription’ Healthcare System. McRae D, Gould A, Price-Davies R, Tagoe J, Evans A, James DH. Pharmacy (Basel). 2021 Apr […]
Characterization of littered face masks in the southeastern part of Turkey. Akarsu C, Madenli Ö, Deveci EÜ. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Apr 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-14099-8. Occurrence of personal […]
A hospital is like a small town. Thousands of staff, patients and visitors on site at any one time As well as the core work of the hospital – assessing […]
The Department of Environment will proceed with inspections and checks in medical centers and doctors’ offices all over Cyprus to ascertain whether they have made agreements with licensed units managing […]
Close to a tonne of PPE otherwise destined for incineration or landfill has been recycled in a major green project by VetPartners. VetPartners initially piloted its recycling project in 100 […]
Managing lateral flow device (LFD) testing waste: RPS C25 The Environment Agency have released RPS C25, to explain when you can accept LFD testing waste coded 18 01 04 and […]
Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group announces a joint venture with Utrecht-based Greencycl. Thermal compaction technology developed in Wales is set to help reduce the amount of plastic waste produced by hospitals […]
POSOCO provides a medical waste incinerator machine to hospital under Swachhta Action Plan. A development that cannot really be criticised, but this really isn’t an incinerator. And yet more obvious, […]
On the same theme as previous threads relating to Covid-19 infection responsible for the tragic death of two hospital porters, and claims of segregation and waste management deficiencies at vaccination […]
A waste management company has been forced to make alternative arrangements for 15% of collections in London and South East England in the last week after ‘record numbers’ of drivers […]
The BBC report that a second hospital porter has sadly died from Covid-19 infection, the second Royal Stoke Hospital porter to die. Of course, this is terribly sad. Perhaps predictably […]
Veolia has introduced a treatment service for the potentially contaminated waste generated by Covid-19 tests. The waste produced from testing kits is classified as offensive waste (EWC 180104) and non-hazardous […]
Waste management contractors and similar businesses handling waste items from coronavirus testing in schools may be able to store the material if necessary, before moving it on for disposal treatment. […]
The 8,000 tonnes-per-year capacity clinical waste treatment plant in Malvern, Worcestershire, is to undergo commissioning following Covid-19-enforced construction delays. Developed by Waste Energy Partners, the facility will be owned by […]
The Environment Agency has now published an update to its Regulatory Position Statement (RPS C23) entitled “Incinerating specified healthcare wastes at a municipal waste incinerator: RPS C23”. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incinerating-specified-healthcare-wastes-at-a-municipal-waste-incinerator-rps-c23/incinerating-specified-healthcare-wastes-at-a-municipal-waste-incinerator-rps-c23 This COVID-19 […]
A new app, which gives care homes the ability to conduct compulsory clinical waste pre-acceptance and duty of care audits without the need for third-party on-site visits, has been launched […]