tissue waste

An Oregon waste-to-energy facility has cuts ties with “aborted-baby hauler” Stericycle.  The US waste-to-energy facility has been forced by the county in which it operates to cut ties with a Canadian provider […]

Addenbrooke’s and all other NHS England hospitals have been instructed not to incinerate aborted foetuses as waste. Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England medical director has written to all trusts, including Cambridge […]

The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has considered placenta disposal on previous occasions. Now another opportunity has been offered, to turn your placenta into a designer photo frame. The mind boggles! […]

A lawsuit has been filed against the WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Georgia who stand accused of tossing a stillborn baby into the clinical waste. http://acworth.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/lawsuit-wellstar-kennestone-hospital-tossed-stillborn-baby_db54be44 With accusation and counter accusation, the circumstances […]

It seems that clinical wastes turn up in all sorts of places. Sharps are a particular problem when they arise, but tissue wastes are perhaps less common, except perhaps after […]

Health Technical Memorandum 07-01: Safe management of healthcare waste has been updated (March 2013) and is now available on the Gov.UK website. Interesting perhaps that this ever more bloated document if […]

When pacemakers find their way to a cremator there is inevitably a rather big bang and substantial consequential contamination that is best avoided. Funeral directors do their best to capture those […]

Sounding more like a tale from some Transylvanian horror, Polish prosecutors say they are questioning a man suspected of burying body parts and other clinical (medical) wastes instead of delivering […]

Good to see that the Bio-Bin range is extending yet again. The latest addition is a Bio-Bin for anatomical waste, ranging from placentae to larger tissue waste items. Bins are pre-labelled […]

“Where did the ankles in the landfill come from?” This unusual title is taken from Beaumont Enterprise, who ask this in connection with the discovery of several body parts found at […]

We assume, despite regulatory insistence on depositing much sanitary and offensive waste needlessly in landfill, that higher grade clinical wastes and tissue wastes in particular will be treated more effectively, probably by high […]

Tissue waste disposal – or non-disposal – is becoming something of a theme. First, it’s the US military tissue retention ‘scandal’, then the illegal DIY retention of organs by a US doctor. […]

In the UK, regulation of tissue waste retention, storage and disposal is very tightly controlled under the Human Tissue Act 2004. Elsewhere, regulation is not so tight but with a […]

Healthcare is becoming more green, slowly, sometimes very slowly, but there are improvements. Some measures are clearly valuable and worthwhile. Others perhaps less so though if it sends a positive […]

Sadly, many babies are stillborn or die at or shortly after birth. Worldwide, abortion including late abortion is a common therapeutic and/or ‘social’ procedure, the remains of which must be disposed […]