Environmental Officer – Hazardous & medical waste
A well respected waste management company with a particular specialism in hazardous and medical waste management, is currently looking for an individual to take a lead on environmental issues for […]
A well respected waste management company with a particular specialism in hazardous and medical waste management, is currently looking for an individual to take a lead on environmental issues for […]
Collecting spilled or misplaced clinical wastes that may arise somewhere between producer and waste management contractor – perhaps that stray yellow or orange sack sitting on the highway forelornely awaiting collection, the bag blown […]
In what must be the most bizarre fee structure the government-stipulated waste management company Wekaya, operating in the emirate of Sharjar, has announced a new approach to charges for clinical […]
Job Title- Sales executive, Business Development Manager Location – South West, London Salary- £25,000-£30,000 base Industry- Medical, clinical waste disposal http://www.bladentaylor.co.uk/job.aspx?kw=clinical waste&c=&id=664967 Job Title – Business Development / […]
The Center of Waste Management, Abu Dhabi, has announced the official opening of four facilities in Al Ain, including: Clinical Waste Incinerator Fallen Stock Incinerator Sanitary Landfill Crushing Plant Facility Last […]
HTM 07-01 recommends extensive segregation of waste and in their turn the Environment Agency expects that it will happen and penalises waste management operators if it doesn’t. That regulatory stance […]
A campaign aimed at reducing an estimated £44 million wasted on medicines across Scotland every year has been launched today by four Local Health Boards in the North of Scotland, […]
On the 18 and 19th of May 2011 the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa will hosts its 2nd Biennial Health Care Waste Summit and Expo 2011 in Johannesburg, […]
Visiting today a highly regarded NHS Imaging (Radiology) Department – perhaps the biggest in London – I was able to see almost every room and treatment bay ranging from a wide […]
I have been asked for views on clinical waste pre-acceptance criteria, and the various layers of EA guidance – it is only guidance and not law, and if a better […]
“Dr George Mukhari hospital in Ga-Rankuwa resembles the set of a cheap horror movie. Monkeys stealing food out of patients hands, stray cats eating medical waste that has been tossed […]
The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has discussed on many occasions the disposal of sharps using a postal return service (see Archive files). Last updated: Sunday, August 8, 2021
Further detail is available now concerning ‘failure’ of the controversial city landfill at Waimanalo Gulch. Last updated: Sunday, October 23, 2022
A facility that purports to help the environment by recycling could really be hurting it. The US Environmental Protection Agency has a ‘laundry list’ of concerns with the Mother Earth Recycling Center […]
Rwanda speaks poverty and strife and healthcare provision in this war-torn country must be, at best, minimal. However, there is good news for many Rwandans on the opening or the […]
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently published a revised document, Clinical Laboratory Waste Management; Approved Guideline – Third Edition (GP05-A3), which was written for use by laboratory managers and […]
The disposal of veterinary sharps is a complex but somewhat overlooked matter. Sharps generated by veterinary staff are rather straightforward and all vets should have access to sharps boxes and […]
There is widespread misconception that sharps or needlestick infections are associated only with the bloodborne virus Hepatitis B and HIV, and that since no such infections have been recorded among waste […]
Reed Specialist have an advertisement today for a Birmingham, West Midlands region appointment as Sales Manager -Clinical Waste. Last updated: Friday, February 10, 2017
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever is a particularly nasty viral infection commonly transmitted to man by ticks. It has a sudden onset with high fever, chills, malaise, diffuse aches, photophobia, irritability and […]
Birmingham Mail reports residents concerns about a pile of around 30 clinical waste bags – they say yellow but in the picture they look orange, certainly not Tiger bags – on […]
It is reported in today’s Guardian that NHS managers have been “ordered” to consider the environmental impact of their decisions. Last updated: Sunday, April 12, 2020
The BioBin by TerraCyclic is “the only sanitary bin that can be serviced by yourself. The unique and patented product has a cartridge system where it is as simple as […]
I am astonished to find an [apparently] UK website offering balers for the compaction of clinical wastes! http://www.ukwastesolutions.info/ offer balers for clinical wastes from dentists, chiropadists [sic], veterinary surgeries, medical centres and […]
Bold statements from Honolulu that medical waste washed out of a defective coastal landfill site to contaminate the ocean, now washing up on shore, presents no risk of infection. Last […]
The US anti-abortionist lobby has proved itself to be vociferous, persistent and at times violent and murderous. Last updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Many of us, one day, will make our way to the crematorium and not return, but on that final journey will we also be making a contribution to lowering the […]
Who takes responsibility for healthcare waste? There are many answers to this apparently simple question, but few are completely satisfactory. Last updated: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
It is inevitable that in healthcare many expensive supplies are opened and unpacked for use but never actually used. These items are then discarded as clinical waste, though they need […]
Hard plastics and non-woven polypropylene comprise anything up to 30% by weight of most UK clinical wastes. Much of that might be recovered for re-use, generally as low value mixed […]