Hazardous clinical waste is being transported in the same hospital trolleys as sterile medical equipment — sparking fears of lethal cross-contamination. A whistleblower raised serious safety concerns after claiming roll […]
SEVERAL NHS trusts in the North-East have had their clinical waste collections stopped after a scandal-hit contractor ran into difficulties. Hospitals run by ten NHS trusts in the region have been […]
NHS Improvement and Environment Agency officials have previously privately acknowledged problems with England’s incineration capacity Healthcare Environment Services says it will take legal action against trusts which cancelled contracts Company’s […]
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THE High Court’s directive to the government on Sunday to create a separate Medical Waste Management Authority in each division by October 4 is welcome. The court gave the directive […]
Street cleaners in a northeastern Egyptian city found a medical waste bag in a garbage bin filled with human liver, other organs, and surgical instruments. Mahmoud, a cleaner, said he […]
A US nurse admitted in court pilfering from clinical wastes to obtain drugs apparently ‘to aid in suicide attempts at her home’, but denied using those drugs and/or the 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 all […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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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