What would you do?
Yahoo Answers is not something that I recommend, though no doubt it has its uses and many people find it particularly useful. When I’m teaching, I instruct students in no […]
healthcare waste
Psychiatric consequences of needlestick injury
Some time has passed since this paper by Green and Griffiths was published. Unsurprisingly, the professional journals and magazines, and the trades union RCN are up in arms about the impact […]
Clinical waste management in Tanzania
“While Tanzania’s leading health facility, the Dar-es-Salaam Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) boasts of having a well-managed system for disposing infectious medical waste, The Citizen on Saturday has discovered that the situation […]
An ignominious end, before life has even begun
Care and disposal of the dead is becoming a hot topic at the moment. In St. Paul, Minnesota, the Regions Hospital has admitted a second stillborn baby was ‘discarded’ in […]
Antimicrobial soaps
We all use antimicrobial soaps. They are ubiquitous in every hospital, clinic and care home, and across the waste industries though in this latter sector getting workers to wash their […]
Pupils play with clinical wastes at Indian dump
Pupils of the Mandal Praja Parishad primary school at Achayyapeta have found some new “toys” to play with. During the recess and after school , the boys and girls run to the […]
W2E gasification plants – is there a place for clinical wastes?
There are several, perhaps many, W2E plants popping up. Indeed, with a sometimes indecent hast to capture a slice of the market the number of plants under construction and in planning […]
Metals recycling from clinical wastes
The Dutch firm Orthometals is successfully operating a metals recovery service for crematoria, collecting implant metals, and if they’re lucky the odd gold ring and several shiny gold tooth caps […]
EPA developed hazardous waste pharmaceuticals Wiki
Thanks to those nice people at practicegreenhealth.org, the following information from the US EPA Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Wiki Team will be of great interest to all of those involved with […]
Clinical waste facility put on hold
Right across Africa properly managed, or indeed any other, clinical waste treatment facilities are few and very far between. News that the construction of a new modern healthcare risk waste (HCRW) […]
‘Recova wrap’ recycling scheme for the NHS
It’s the bane of many waste treatment facilities. Blue spun (non-woven) polypropylene wrap often ties its way around the best of shredders causing many hold-ups and some equipment damage during […]
Placenta found by London dog walker
Various items of clinical waste, predominantly used sharps, can be found on the streets of London. But today’s news report from the BBC is of a placenta found by London dog […]
Kids discover waste syringes on Long Beach, NY street
Children biking around their Long Beach, N.Y., neighbourhood discovered piles of used medical syringes Sunday, local news agency News12 reported. One of the children, age 12, told his parents, who […]
Foetus in clinical waste bin
The press is getting exercised about a foetus – described boldly as an unborn baby in some of the more lurid headlines – found in a clinical waste bin. The […]
Shetland – clinical waste sack found blown into ditch
NHS Shetland is launching an investigation after a Vidlin resident found a medical waste bag in the ditch near her home last week. The bag was labelled NHS Grampian and bore a […]
Safer sharps – are they protecting against sharps injury?
As the archive files of the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum will attest, several years before the start of the move toward introduction of engineered safety sharps I took a sceptical […]
Scientists call to classify plastic waste as hazardous waste
“An international group of scientists, including the young Chelsea Rochman and Mark Anthony Browne from California, with the support of the veteran marine scientist Richard Thompson from the UK and a host of […]
Cleaning-up of South Africa’s healthcare waste sector
It should come as no surprise that South Africa’s healthcare waste sector “is riddled with allegations of financial impropriety, corruption, overloaded facilities and use of inappropriate transport vehicles and storage facilities.” […]
Medical waste fills the streets of Cairo
With at least one hospital waste incinerator, perhaps the only one, out of action, it is reported that clinical waste is filling the streets of Cairo. In such a troubled […]
Recovery of plastics from clinical wastes
Despite all its woes, the recycling industries have a good record – it could be much better – of recovering material resources for reuse. With correct processing, it matters not […]
International technical medical waste expert consultant
Location : Home-based Application Deadline : 19-Mar-13 Type of Contract : Individual Contract Post Level : International Consultant Languages Required : English Duration of Initial Contract : estimated March 2013 […]
Egypt needs 400 clinical waste incinerators
Do you manufacture low-cost robust clinical waste incinerators? Or indeed, do you provide autoclaves or other clinical waste processing technologies? If so, a ready market is waiting for you in Egypt. […]
The Healthcare Waste Summit 2013
The Health Care Waste Summit 2013 15 – 17 May 2013 Emperor’s Palace, Johannesburg South Africa The HEALTH CARE WASTE SUMMIT 2013 is taking place for the 3rd time under […]
Clinical waste left on Northampton street for weeks
Ironically situated almost underneath the noses of CIWM headquarters, it is reported that clinical waste has been left on Northampton street for weeks. “The family of a 97-year-old woman have had to […]
Mandatory on-site incinerator for all Pashawar hospitals
The Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) green bench has directed all public and private hospitals to install incinerators so hospital waste is properly disposed and does not pollute the environment. The […]
Medical waste found outside trash cans at medical building
US TV news K-SAT.com presents a short piece about an employee who has raised concerns about clinical (medical) waste items found in and around a dumpster placed close to the front […]
“Janitor dies from inhaling medical waste”
Boston Personal Injury News carries a brief report that may be of interest, as improbablye as it may seem: “A wrongful death lawsuit from is reported to be a concern for anyone who has […]
Demonstration to demand safe disposal of infectious medical waste
It sounds bad, infectious medical waste, and is bound to stir some controversy and concern. So in just a few days, on 23 February, a demonstration is planned against the […]
Compendium of Technologies for Treatment/Destruction of Healthcare Waste
Compiled and published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, International Environmental Technology Centre, Osaka, Japan, the comprehensive guide “Compendium of Technologies for Treatment/Destruction […]
Cement kiln engineered fuel patents and sharps PELLA-DRX™
This interesting patented technology is apparently now available for licensing worldwide to convert medical waste into fuel. Pelleted fuel can be used in cement kilns and other large users of industrial […]