New machine cleans and recycles used syringes
A US news report highlights Sterilis, a new device that sterilizes and recycles used syringes. Manufacturing Vice President for Sterilis, Tony Batalha showed Western Mass News what the machine is […]
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Risks as hospital burns medical waste in open pit
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 […]
Recycled hospital waste to helpt ‘desperate’ children in Africa
Pharmaceutical firm Adcock Ingram Critical Care has joined forces with a group of local hospitals and waste management businesses to recycle medical waste in the Johannesburg area of South Africa. […]
Gangrene energy?
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. […]
Clinical waste disposal in India – how bad can they get #2
A Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) team found 2 tonnes of biomedical waste at a shop of a scrap dealer in Dhanas in a raid on Friday, a day after […]
Clinical waste disposal in India – how bad can they get?
CHANDIGARH: A task of unclogging drains belched out hundreds of used syringes at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, on Saturday, indicating that something was wrong in the disposal […]
what’s happening to all of the ‘vet meds’?
A record number of farmers – 525 in total – travelled to Listowel, Co. Kerry, with their hazardous waste last Saturday (November 4). Speaking to AgriLand, the EPA’s Shane Colgan stated […]
University Hospital Galway fined €10k over waste dumping
University Hospital Galway was fined over €10,000 in a 14-month period by a waste management service for incorrectly dumping medical waste in recycling. The fines were revealed in a HSE […]
Sterilis device in use
The photocopier-size device can sterilize and grind up medical (clinical) waste including syringes and sharps containers to produce nontoxic garbage that ‘doesn’t require incineration’ or ‘other special treatment’. Innovator Jeff […]
Hong Kong clinic fined HK$50,000 for dumping clinical waste
A private clinic in Cheung Sha Wan was fined HK$50,000 (about £5,000) at Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts today for contravening the Waste Disposal Regulation. In December last year, Environmental Protection […]
Workers help woman find necklace buried in hospital waste
A New Jersey woman was thrilled when a group of sanitation workers found her special necklace, which had been accidentally thrown away when she went to hospital. Staff at […]
City doctor invents all-in-one system for liquid med waste
A low-cost ingenious solution by a government doctor could get rid of liquid bio-medical waste in hospitals. Dubbed automated portable effluent treatment system (APETS), it can treat liquid waste, log […]
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HK hospital refuses to release foetus for burial
A Hong Kong couple has been told they cannot take back the remains of a foetus for proper burial or cremation, after the wife suffered a miscarriage at 16 weeks of pregnancy. The city’s hospitals […]
Dogs feast on abandoned stillborn at Indian hospital
Stray dogs feasted on a stillborn in the Jeypore sub divisional Odisha hospital on Monday. A woman had delivered the stillborn baby and her relatives left it outside the labour […]
Fears over clinical waste collection changes
Council chiefs sought to allay fears over the way clinical waste will now be collected from households in the area. NE Derbyshire District Council sent a letter to residents telling […]
Toronto nurse makes stunning mural from medical waste
After 28 years of collecting lids, tabs, and connectors, Tilda Shalof was ready to turn them into a work of art. Tilda Shalof finds beauty in unusual places. For 28 […]
20,000 improperly discarded hypodermic needles
More than 20,000 improperly discarded hypodermic needles retrieved in Boston in one year. That’s a statistic that nobody would wish to have. The City of Boston Mobile Sharps team picked […]
Radioactive contamination of healthcare wastes
Who screens their outgoing and incoming healthcare wastes for radioactive contamination? Now and again, some alarm activations will arise, not perhaps from inappropriate disposal of some radioactive source or lab […]
Patients’ medical details dumped in bin near Tunbridge Wells
Patients’ medical details have been found dumped in a bin near Tunbridge Wells. The confidential information of patients, along with medical waste was found scattered across a road and in […]
Dirty Old River
Memorable as the opening line of The Kinks classic Waterloo Sunset, “Dirty Old River” seems as true as ever. Now, London volunteers find 1,000 dirty needles a year in a […]
Turkey Introduces New Standards for Medical Waste Control
The Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization recently adopted the new Regulation on Control of Medical Waste (the “Medical Waste Regulation”). Based on the Environment Law No. 2872, the purpose […]
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Times of India reports clinical waste “recycling”
KOLKATA: Biomedical and hazardous waste is regularly being recycled and sold in open market despite there being specific rules for its segregation, transportation and dumping. The blatant practice was confirmed […]
Challenges of hospital plastics recycling include contamination, low values
A new report from the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) has found that recovering value from various types of plastic medical waste is possible but presents many logistical challenges. These […]
Chinese police bust plant recycling medical waste
Chinese police have ‘bust’ a plant recycling medical (clinical) waste for use in plastic toys and tableware. Illegal operators salvage plastics from used hospital items which they sell around the world. Three […]
Research papers 2016
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 […]
Welsh company pioneers clinical waste recycling process
The Cardiff-based company, Thermal Compaction Group (TCG) has developed a new clinical waste recycling process, which could transform how healthcare providers deal with clinical waste and create a new revenue […]
Dumped pills are not the main source of drugs in sewage
The next time you pick up a prescription, you might notice a message on the label exhorting you not to flush leftover pills down the toilet. This advice reflects the […]
Syringes litter Hong Kong beaches
Syringes are littering Hong Kong beaches. Thankfully, some good people are trying to gather and remove these, and putting pressure on the authorities to reduce or even eliminate this pollution. Regrettably however, […]