The recovery of identifiable clinical waste items including catheters and cannulae, medical device wrappers and fluid-filled tubing, syringes and needles when exhuming wastes from landfill sites is surprisingly common. From […]
A new device, or perhaps just a new application, of temporary walkway matting has been announced by Timbermat Ltd. Proposed as a mat to allow workers safe access to sharps-contaminated land […]
Location: South West England Salary: £200 – £300 per day Type: Temporary Reference: 423275 An experienced waste manager is required for an NHS organisation for an interim contract. Concentrating on the […]
Advertising flimflam is part of the way of things these days, and we all take it with a generous pinch of salt. In the UK, claims have to be compliant with […]
There is little scope for improving waste sack design. In an array of colours, these may vary by wall thickness (though puncture and tear resistance, and overall strength, would be […]
The Capital District Ambulance Service is accused of dumping medical waste in abandoned ambulances. CBS6 has learned that DGS workers who were performing routine maintenance found bags of blood-soaked rags and dirty […]
There is quite a lot of clinical wastes generated from funeral homes. Embalming, care of the body, is now particularly common in the UK though one has to wonder if this […]
East Cheshire NHS Trust has outsourced all of its waste management to SRCL. In a predictably upbeat news release, it is reported that the Trust has become the first organisation to […]
News of another pilot program to recycle hospital gloves and non-woven polypropylene gowns, garments and disposable curtains, this time in the US. These initiatives are worthy of support though presently […]
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 […]
letsrecycle.com is claiming that pharmaceutical retailer Boots is preparing to classify all waste collections from its UK outlets as dry mixed recycling. As of April 2012, all waste from its […]
It’s a bold claim, but one that is not implausible and certainly to be applauded. Southend Hospital is celebrating becoming 100% landfill free with its waste. Last updated: Saturday, March 3, 2012
The International Committee of the Red Cross provides aid to those in need all across the world. This means operating in distant lands, with sometimes minimal resources delivered by road, […]
A new Healthcare Waste Conference will take place on May 2 & 3, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas. The symposium will be devoted to the management of healthcare wastes and all the […]
There is a long and troubled history surrounding the disposal of clinical and other waste in Malta. With repeated suggestions of corruption, of dubious ‘experts’ basing their advice more on hospitality […]
USAID has published a resume of result from an interventional study of waste management in Namibia. Make your own minds up. Though a massive improvement in standards is claimed, from only […]
It often seems that waste management is a last minute add-in to most management plans. An irritating afterthought which sits uncomfortably with established operations, planning of new or reconfigured services […]
Old ideas are often the best, and in the case of clinical waste treatment from sources at University College Hospital London that is undoubtedly true. Many laboratories produce vast quantities […]
A clinical waste incinerator built by a local farmer may not be totally efficient and pollution free but it’s churning through waste that was otherwise dangerous and time consuming to […]
The use of syringes for vaccination is set to decline, affecting also the volume of sharps waste as work continues on alternate delivery systems for common vaccines. Some oral products […]
Hepatitis B virus infection among medical waste handlers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is a real problem. In a detailed research paper from that country, the incidence of Hepatitis B was […]
The Johns Hopkins University Hospital has saved $100,000 over a number of months by reducing its medical waste by 16 percent and by putting it in the correct containers. “Red […]
On the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum we have previously commented on the fate of rag pickers and other scavengers salvaging items from untreated medical waste and facilitating is repackaging for […]
More than half of the medical waste incinerators in Vietnam have been left unused because their owners do not have money to pay for fuel and maintenance. Especially, they still do […]
Sharp eyed visitors will notice a new Ask for Evidence link on our home page. Blenkharn Environmental is pleased to support the Ask for Evidence campaign of Sense about Science. As […]
In a carefully managed PR release, information of a presentation given at a Chicago environmental meeting reports a claim of reduced CO2 emission and lowered environmental impact from reusable sharps disposal […]
The state-owned Oman Environmental Services Holding Company SAOC (OESHCO) is formulating a national strategy to manage the large volumes of ‘potentially lethal’ clinical (medical) waste generated by the country’s vast […]
UN investigator says medical waste mostly unregulated, often dumped illegally, risks ignored “The Washington Post today quotes a human rights investigator for the United Nations who says up to a quarter of […]
Resomation, the solubilisation of tissues in a heated potassium hydroxide solution, is the subject of a substantial PR campaign aimed at gaining public acceptance and regulatory approval for the disposal of […]
The OFT today referred the completed acquisition by Stericycle, Inc (Stericycle) of Ecowaste Southwest Limited (Ecowaste) to the Competition Commission for further investigation. Stericycle’s UK subsidiary, SRCL Limited (SRCL), provides […]