From: A user of clinical waste products
Category: Miscellaneous
Date: 16 Feb 2008
Time: 15:02:14 +0100
Remote Name: 86.134.111.185
Hi there, The British Health Service does not change course easily, nor does it spend huge sums of money on every variation of product that appears on the market. Therefore the validity of your argument to change from using cheap plastic sacks, over to expensive cardboard boxes, simply to incinerate non sharps, is a mute point. Plastic sacks are very cheap, easy to transport to the point of use and already the industry standard. The cardboard containers on discussion here, are at least ten times more expensive and not as easy to transport. You can carry a spare plastic sack in your pocket, just in case you need it, but you could not carry a large cardboard box as easily, flat packed or otherwise,. So even though you argue your product is better than a plastic sack, is it good enough to create a change the way the NHS disposes of non sharps, while at the same time substantially increasing in the cost of doing so? I do not think so. A Visiting Clinician First posted
07-Feb-2008