Almost 20 NHS trusts are paying three times as much for clinical waste services after the trusts cancelled their previous contracts with the waste disposal company at the centre of […]
A proposed medical waste plant for Newhaven has been described as ‘another bullet in the back for an already ailing town’ by one objector. Clean Thermodynamic Energy Conversion (CTEC) is […]
Materials Recycling World report that, as we know, the waste sector has hit the mainstream media headlines again – this time the specialist world of clinical waste services. A serious […]
The war of words between the Environment Agency (EA) and contractor Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) has worsened after the company released a cache of emails and minutes of a meeting […]
In yet another shock horror news report it is claimed that HES were storing mountains of waste and ‘body parts’ in a freezer that for months had the power turned […]
Among the myriad press reports, government statements and whistleblower claims, some interesting pictures are emerging: from https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-body-parts-scandal-firm-13428693 from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6285325/The-human-waste-mountains-Photos-expose-shocking-scale-unbearable-NHS-rubbish-stench.html from https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/health/body-parts-stacked-ceiling-were-2120865 Some poor practices but I for one have […]
NHS Improvement and Environment Agency officials have previously privately acknowledged problems with England’s incineration capacity Healthcare Environment Services says it will take legal action against trusts which cancelled contracts Company’s […]
Few can have missed the generally lurid headlines concerning a ‘mountain of clinical wastes and human body parts’ that seem to have appeared in all news websites, TV news and […]
Waste management firm Veolia’s vehicle fleet is set to include two fully-electric bin lorries, which will be charged with power derived from waste collected by the company. The project will […]
A disused incinerator could be brought back to life as a plant to dispose of clinical waste. The incinerator, at Hangmans Lane, Hanley Swan, was built in the early 1970s to […]
The Kenyan Standard Digital reports on the pollution risks to residents close to a hospital that is burning its medical (clinical) waste in open burn pits. Choking smoke from burning medical waste at Molo […]
A Staffordshire-based manufacturer has completed its biggest export deal to date, supplying 13 medical waste incinerators to Pakistan with support from the Department for International Trade (DIT). Addfield Environmental Systems […]
It’s an hilarious headline. Describing “Fury at plan to burn BODY PARTS and medical waste to power hundreds of homes”, the Daily Mail is calling the planned power output Gangrene Energy. […]
2018 Revised spreadsheet ‘Waste management 2016 in England: data tables’. Amendment to ‘Operational incinerators’ worksheet. Permitted waste management activities provide information about wastes accepted and removed from their facilities. This […]
Someone is continuing in their quest to winkle out waste outputs from hospitals all over the UK, using freedom of information requests. This one, to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust seems […]
A pet crematorium in Winchfield is celebrating 25 years of helping grieving animal lovers – despite vets saying the idea would never catch on. In 1992, Barry Spurgeon and his […]
A Maintenance Team Leader is required to work at an operational energy from waste power station in the Birmingham area. The person will be responsible for scheduling and supervising of […]
Continuing the policy of listing those research papers and other published works that we have found to be of relevance and particular interest, we have now compiled the list of […]
The Drug Disposal System-Pill Crusher is a specially designed device to feed pills (medications) into, and they are crushed automatically. It is operated by a sensor and a permanent lock […]
CalRecycle have put out a message concerning the impending deadline for the registration of IV pharmaceutical manufactures’ who forthwith will be financially responsible for the collection and disposal of used sharps. […]
Two human legs that were removed during a surgery have been found in a waste dump near Newcastle in New South Wales, police have confirmed. A man working at a […]
Herald Scotland reports that a Lanarkshire clinical waste management company has created 50 new jobs following a £10m investment in energy efficiency and recycling. Healthcare Environmental Group, the largest independent […]
BBC News has a piece today, reporting the case of a man who wanted to donate his amputated leg then chose to hold a guess-the-weight competition last month after his […]
A crematorium owner who duped families into thinking he had given them the ashes of their dead pets, only for the animals to be later found in freezers, has been […]
Though the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum and Blenkharn Environmental have long-supported postal delivery of small volumes of sharps waste from home users, diabetics and others, to ease the process of […]
It is now easy to get needlestick (sharps) injury insurance in the UK though how easy it will be to succeed in a claim remains to be seen, and many […]
Plans for an 80ft chimney at Thriplow pet crematorium have been branded a safety risk to Imperial War Museum Duxford pilots and could threaten incoming aircraft, according to the neighbouring air museum. […]
Veolia’s Energy Recovery Facilities utilise world-class technology to safely transform residual waste in to energy. For the national grid, they generate enough energy to power over 189,000 homes annually. Energy […]
There are many small island and otherwise isolated communities producing clinical wastes that must be shipped long distances and perhaps across national borders in order to reach a satisfactory treatment […]
In an astonishing claim made by The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), it has been decreed that EnviroServ’s regional medical waste incineration facility in Bloemfontein compromises community members’ right to […]