Let’s spread a rumour??
The majority of waste bins across the UK contain dangerous used PPE and ‘could put lives at risk’. That’s the suggestion from clinical waste collection company BusinessWaste, which suggests up […]
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Environment Agency approves Veolia’s clinical waste application
he Environment Agency has approved Veolia’s application to alter its environmental permit to allow the processing of healthcare orange bagged waste at its energy from waste plant at Tyseley, Birmingham. […]
£25m UK clinical waste plant built at existing biomass facility in Stoke-on-Trent
Work is underway on the largest clinical waste treatment plant built in the UK for 20 years at an existing biomass facility site in Stoke-on-Trent. Waste Energy Power Partners (WEPP) […]
Environment Agency RPS updates
Environment Agency RPS updates: The latest regulatory position statement updates from the Environment Agency. Monitoring emissions from some environmental permitting activities: RPS C7 Emissions to air from Large Combustion Plant in […]
More COVID-19 regulatory position statements from Environment Agency
Monitoring emissions from installations, radioactive substances and waste activities: RPS C7 Storing or treating COVID-19 cleansing waste at a healthcare waste management facility: RPS C1 Exceeding waste storage limits at […]
Clinical waste and capacity
Nice opinion piece on letsrecycle.com about the challenges of dealing with clinical waste capacity at the present time of coronavirus and, in particular, the challenges caused by managing the HES […]
Management of Coronavirus waste
Better late than never, the Environment Agency have issued guidance concerning healthcare waste management changes in relation to coronavirus. It all seems quite sensible, though predictably late to appear. T hough […]
Veolia to process healthcare waste at Tyseley
Veolia has applied to the Environment Agency to alter its permit to allow the processing of healthcare orange bagged waste at its energy from waste plant in Tyseley, Birmingham. According to the application, submitted in […]
Storing/treating COVID-19 cleansing waste at a healthcare waste management facility
The Environment Agency has released RPS C1 to explain its stance on the storing or treating COVID-19 cleansing waste at a healthcare waste management facility, explaining when you can store or […]
Defra issues advice to the waste sector because of coronavirus and their household waste
COVID-19 is a huge problem, and that includes a problem for those involved in waste management. In the last 2 days, Defra has issued advice to the waste sector and […]
UK’s Addfield to construct clinical waste-to-energy facility in Kuwait
UK-based manufacturer Addfield Environmental Systems are beginning to gather a team in preparation for the construction of a clinical waste-to-energy facility in Kuwait. Construction of the project will begin in […]
Recycled drip bags will make 25,000 pairs of school shoes
More than 1 300 primary school learners of Chivirikani Primary School in Katlehong, near Johannesburg, received a pair of brand new school shoes made from non-hazardous, recycled PVC healthcare waste […]
New clinical waste treatment plant for Tamworth
A building on a Tamworth industrial estate can now be used as a medical waste treatment plant – despite objections from hundreds of people. Health risks, 24 hour traffic and […]
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 […]
New EU rules to impact UK’s energy-from-waste sector
New EU rules could impact the UK’s energy-from-waste sector as a new waste incineration best available techniques reference document (BREF) is likely to have major cost implications for the UK’s energy-from-waste […]
Tradebe Scotland clinical waste facility opens
Tradebe Healthcare has officially opened a new clinical waste treatment site at Bellshill, near Glasgow. This significant development has been commissioned to support the waste management requirements for Scotland’s NHS Health […]
Green light for Tradebe, Bellshill
Tradebe has been granted an environmental permit for a waste treatment facility in Bellshill, near Glasgow, which will process nearly 25,000 tonnes of healthcare waste a year. The plant is […]
Drug residues escape wastewater treatments
Hospital wastewater reveals a substantial pool of antibiotic resistance, as both antibiotic use and average patient length of stay were linked to greater abundance of antibiotic resistant genes detected in […]
Are special EA dispensations threatening the clinical waste sector?
ENDS reports a new entrant to the clinical waste disposal market has claimed there is a lack of incineration capacity, a concern that was first highlighted last year when a specialist […]
Plans for medical waste incinerator in Kilmarnock scrapped
Plans to build a medical waste incinerator in Kilmarnock have been scrapped. Waste Energy Partners wanted to launch the facility, which would have also burned hazardous waste, in the Moorfield […]
Disposal of tissue waste
Regulated disposal of tissue waste has always been problematic. Simply putting them, suitably bagged or binned as appropriate into a licensed clinical waste incinerator is straightforward though often rather disruptive […]
Clinical waste incinerator may be built in Kilmarnock
Waste Energy Partners want to launch the service in the Moorfield Industrial Park, near Braehead Foods, if an application gets the green light from East Ayrshire Council. he firm aims […]
Writ filed at Appeal Court regarding import of clinical waste from UK
A writ petition has been filed at the Appeal Court seeking to issue an order instructing action to be taken against those responsible for importing clinical waste from the UK. […]
Firm signed up to ‘solve’ Scottish healthcare waste crisis hit by red tape
It is alleged that hundreds of tons of healthcare wastes, including as the press and politicians will insist a veritable mountain of body parts, have been stockpiled since collapse of […]
Clinical waste operator job – Ipswich
A Clinical Waste Operator job, bizarrely described as a Clinical Waste Labourer, is available in Ipswich. Key duties will include ensuring that all areas of responsibility are cleaned to the […]
Clinical Waste Operative Jobs – Sunderland
Established in 2013, City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE) was initially set up to provide Pharmacy Services to City Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust, but more recently we have created […]
‘Treated’ clinical wastes fly tipped in Hampshire
A huge pile of commercial rubbish, thought to include hospital waste, has been fly-tipped in a country lane in Hampshire. The mound of mechanically-processed refuse appeared on a path off Greywell […]
Clinical Waste disposal operative
Clinical waste disposal operative needed, to add to an existing team in the Knowsley area. Duties will include working out in the yard, manoeuvring waste on the plant and the […]
Politics slows Lanarkshire treatment plant planning
The company contracted to solve Scotland’s clinical waste crisis is facing opposition to its plans for a new treatment plant. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman admitted last week that toxic NHS material, […]
Scotland gets more bad press concerning storage of clinical wastes
A mountain of clinical waste dumped in ‘flimsy’ bags at Dundee hospital sparking contamination fears, so says The Scottish Sun. Claiming that leaked photographs show a pile of yellow bags […]