PPE recycled to make stronger concrete
PPE can be recycled to make stronger concrete The RMIT team’s concrete that was made using PPE. Credit: RMIT University Engineers at RMIT University have developed a method to use […]
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UN-approved clinical waste container from post-consumer recycled resin
Daniels Healthcare, the UK market leader for sharps and clinical waste containers, has introduced the world’s first UN-approved clinical waste container made from post-consumer recycled resin (PCR) to the UK. […]
Architect Creates Hospital Ward from Trash
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang wanted to do something to help. As the construction industry across the world ground to a halt, putting many of […]
New life for blue wrap?
An Asheville nurse is using leftover medical blue wrap material to help the homeless. Every day, cloth wrapping is used to keep medical instruments sterile before use. At the end […]
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 […]
Medical Waste – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Is The Winning Formula
Medical Waste – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Is The Winning Formula Read this short but interesting piece by Mak Laurens http://goarticles.com/article/Medical-Waste-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Is-The-Winning-Formula/8674777/ Last updated: Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Nurse creates bags from discarded polyprop surgical wrap
An Arizona nurse has created shoulder bags from discarded non-woven polypropylene surgical wrap from surgical instrument wraps. Often discarded – unnecessarily, as it is merely a sterile outer wrapper for sterile […]
Finding a home for unused medical supplies
What to do with all of those unwanted medical supplies? The pack of 6 with just 2 used; the unused gauzes or tubing sets; the spare syringes and needles? Even […]
Disposal of pacemakers after death
When pacemakers find their way to a cremator there is inevitably a rather big bang and substantial consequential contamination that is best avoided. Funeral directors do their best to capture those […]
Reusable sharps containers
We are becoming accustomed to re-usable sharps containers, not least because of the bullish advertising of their sole manufacturer. But now, there might be a new kid on the block. […]
Re-processing and re-use of single-use medical equipment
There has, for some considerable time, been considerable interest in the re-processing for re-use of single-use medical equipment and devices. If reprocessing is undertaken with sufficient care to provide a safe and effective […]
Cremation – who gets the gold?
Gold prices are riding high. With an eye, if not a tooth, on profit nine South Koreans have been arrested for stealing, selling and buying melted gold teeth from cremation […]
Recycled medical waste floods city
“It’s wobbly with a crooked needle and a depressed piston. The tip looks blunt, the cap is loose and the tube has a pale exterior. ‘For single use only‘ says […]
Diversion of medical waste items to re-use
The composition of mixed clinical waste is highly variable and separaton of individual items for re-use is not practicable without source separation. Though downstream separation of plastics, rubber (latex) and […]
Cremation – just another tissue incinerator?
When human or animal tissues are processed through a high temperature clinical waste incinerator we have no graet concern about options for heat and energy recovery. When those tissues are […]
Students salvaging waste medical supplies
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 […]
GW Butler diversification and growth
Yorkshire waste management companies GW Butler and 707 Resource Management have joined forces in a partnership deal to pursue a national expansion plan. Last updated: Thursday, January 6, 2011
Deadly trade in medical waste
“Police suspect discarded biomedical material could be finding its way into city hospitals to be reused; say possibility of doctors being involved in racket cannot be ruled out. Last updated: […]