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, […]
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 […]
Sevearl sources are reporting that clinical wastes from Scottish hospitals are being shipped to Wales for treatment. The BBC reports that under a new contract, “yellow bag” waste and sharps […]
Clinical waste is piling up outside hospitals, Health Service Journal reveals, amid fallout from the crisis which exploded in the sector last year. An NHS England document, leaked to HSJ, revealed […]
Interesting news from the US company Elastec, who offer a number of different portable incinerators* intended for modest volumes of clinical wastes and pharma waste respectively. The company produce the […]
NHS Shared Business Services has appointed waste contractors to a contract framework, which is intended to reduce the time it takes for NHS organisations to procure waste services. The ‘Waste […]
Researchers have isolated pathogenic, drug-resistant bacteria from wastewater treatment facilities in the UK. Drug-resistant bacteria are increasingly a public health concern as they can lead to serious illness or death, […]
Incinerating clinical waste from health boards across Scotland is bringing around £8,000 a week into Shetland Islands Council’s (SIC) coffers. The SIC started taking in low grade NHS waste such […]
Rise in needle injuries following collapse of hospital waste disposal firm. Union bosses have blamed the spate on untrained porters being made to work with hazardous materials. A Scottish health board […]
It started out as just a normal day at the tip for Mike Lewis of Carmarthen. The air was changing as the season altered from summer to autumn. The temperature […]
Reny Vargheseane of Thane in India is described as a trailblazer. His relentless effort to produce vegetables with waste has taken him places, including winning the National Swachhata Mission award. […]
Yes, it’s true. A woman who is soon to have her leg amputated wants to use her own skin to make a handbag. Joan, who is 55 and from Manchester, […]
After HES Ltd, it seems that the Press are working hard to keep everyone on their toes. Finding wastes stored inappropriately at this Scottish hospital is causing red faces and, […]
Well, it’s spreading among Local Authorities who are presumably cash poor and struggling to balance their books. After news of ‘threats’ to charge for domiciliary clinical waste collections when local […]
Veolia has been granted an environmental permit for its energy from waste plant at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, as it awaits a final decision on planning approval for the facility. The […]
Plans to open a medical waste plant in Newhaven have been given the go-ahead by East Sussex planners. At a meeting on Wednesday (January 16), East Sussex County Council planners […]
There is a current opportunity for a Clinical Waste Operative in the Maidstone, Medway, Faversham, Sittingbourne area. Due to the nature of this role and client insurances you must be over […]
The Scottish Daily Record reveals today that the firm stepping in after NHS clinical waste crisis fined £500k over their own environmental scandals. Surely, this must be seen as hilarious and ironic, […]
Shetland Islands Council is incinerating hundreds of tons of NHS clinical waste from health boards across Scotland – including the Highland and Grampian – to help ease a national backlog. […]
Four porters at Inverness’ Raigmore Hospital were injured carrying out work involving clinical waste, the GMB union has said. The union has submitted a collective grievance to NHS Highland about the […]
In a display of remarkable journalistic hyperbole, today’s Daily Mail screams “Shocking new pictures lay bare scale of NHS body parts scandal: Inside waste disposal firm facing criminal probe after […]
There are, no doubt, lots of different opinions regarding the current HES Ltd “scandal”. Before making your own decisions about this, read the documents presented by HES Ltd at https://www.healthcareenv.com/the-truth. […]
Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group (TCG) has been Highly Commended for its work with a trust in England after pioneering the recycling of medical material to generate income for the NHS. […]
Human remains and other medical waste that require professional storage and treatment are building up at dozens of NHS trusts in England after a scandal-hit contractor stopped collections. Ministers issued […]
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 […]
Residents say proposals to build a medical waste plant near an award-winning nature reserve are “really outrageous”. Energy company Clean Thermodynamic Energy Conversion is awaiting permission from East Sussex County Council […]
More than 20 NHS trusts must store clinical waste, including human remains, at their premises for up to a fortnight after their scandal-hit contractor stopped collecting waste last week, prompting […]
Almost 20 NHS trusts are paying three times as much for clinical waste services after the trusts cancelled their previous contracts with the waste disposal company at the centre of […]
A proposed medical waste plant for Newhaven has been described as ‘another bullet in the back for an already ailing town’ by one objector. Clean Thermodynamic Energy Conversion (CTEC) is […]
Harbour House raises concerns after waiting two weeks for clinical waste removal. The West Bay care home is still waiting for their bins to be emptied by contractor PHS, with […]