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# Blenkharn Environmental

A research-driven consultancy focussed on healthcare, occupational and environmental microbiology, hygiene, infection prevention, healthcare & sharps waste management, and bio-safety

## Posts

- [Pharmaceutical waste from operating theatres and ITU](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3504) - Waste security must prevent scavenging from any clinical wastes; by analysing pharmaceutical waste outputs further cost and environmental savings are possible
- [Putrid waste into fragrant smells](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13947)
- [Syringe pens......again!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2874) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has reported widespread concern about novelty syringe pens that too easily can be mistaken by children for the real thing
- [Body parts remain in abandoned warehouse after a year](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12721)
- [Sharps by mail](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6483)
- [US study sheds light on needlestick injuries at MRFs](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11512)
- [Vet clinics get notices on waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=169)
- [Kidney for transplant put out with the trash](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3976)
- [Survivability of Ebola Virus in clinical wastes?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8136) - CDC has provided Information on the Survivability of the Ebola Virus in Medical Waste
- [Thank you, Elton](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6292)
- [Shock as remains of 18 babies incinerated with clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13988)
- [Confidential paper disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2280) - Could companies managing clinical wastes extend their services to clients by offering to dispose also of confidential paper waste?
- [No to compensation for childrens' sharps injuries](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5456)
- [Clinical waste dumped illegally](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13983)
- [Major fire at Indian clinical waste plant](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14099)
- [Puncture, the Movie](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4527)
- [Panda poo](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2657) - Two giant pandas recently arrived at Edinburgh Zoo on loan from China. Their faeces must be treated as clinical waste for the 6 months that they in quarantine
- [The horrors of war](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2562) - The world continues to witness war and conflict, and the death toll on every side climbs; each one a father, son, mother, daughter, child, a friend or colleague
- [Placenta disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=216)
- [Protests against incineration of clinical and related wastes from Ipswich Hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15685)
- [Dirty Old River](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10658) - Remember The Kinks Waterloo Sunset, and the opening "Dirty Old River"? It seems as true as ever, as volunteers find 1,000 dirty needles a year from its
- [NHS waste backlog: Criminal probe launched](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11543)
- [Challenges of hospital plastics recycling include contamination, low values](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10535)
- [Transforming medical waste into plastic lumber](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9487) - A US company is turning medical and pharmaceutical waste into plastic lumber called "BestPlus"
- [New Rwanda hospital has own incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1255) - Healthcare provision in war-torn Rwanda has been minimal but a new hospital includes state of the art facilities and a brand new waste incinerator
- [Stericycle investors agree $45m settlement over fraud charges](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12176)
- [Some bins just never get emptied!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8931) - Belfast waste bin has not been emptied in three years, because nobody can agree who owns it!
- [National Guidance for Healthcare Waste Water Discharges](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1686) - Water UK published on 11th April its National Guidance for Healthcare Waste Water Discharges. How do these guidelines impact on clinical waste disposal?
- [Prescription drug residues in natural water sources](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6411)
- [Toronto nurse makes stunning mural from medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10751) - After 28 years of collecting lids, tabs, and connectors, Tilda Shalof was ready to turn them into a work of art.
- [NHS Waste Operative job](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13531)
- ["Hospital incinerator contaminates patients"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2586) - Namibian hospital clinical waste incinerator "contaminates patients"
- [HES Pettigrew charged over pensions](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12784)
- [Resomation, possibly?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11122)
- [Magnetic needle retriever](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8904) - Looking for a magnetic needle retriever?
- [What does waste look like?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5933)
- [Syringe horror for Aussie gardener](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2051)
- [A collection of needle crimes and associated injuries](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8447) - A collection of needle crimes and associated injuries
- [Community sharps bins - need planning and care](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=227)
- [Sharps injury for rail passenger](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1415) - Sharps injury carries a substantial risk of bloodborne virus infection. However, where seroconversion is not observed, psychological injury may be severe
- [Seven-year-old faces uncertain future after stepping on needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6919)
- [Greening healthcare](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4376)
- [What made Milwaukee famous?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2603) - Environmental groups report, once again, substantial amounts of medical waste washing up on Milwaukees Lake Michigan beaches
- [Including waste management in service planning](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2630) - Waste management is often a last minute add-in to most management plans, often omitted from financing and resource planning until far too late
- [An artistic view of Europe's waste?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6650)
- [Hazardous substances in Europe's fresh and marine waters](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2259) - EEA Technical report 8/2011 provides an overview of hazardous substances in natural waters, and is a starting point for those concerned with drug waste disposal
- [Hundreds of discarded hypodermic needles reported across Dundee and Angus](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13655)
- [Newborn baby found in wheelie bin in Grimsby](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14247)
- [What do they know?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10740) - What is the competition is doing? Are Freedom of Infection request a worthwhile business tactic?
- [Freedom of Information requests](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9568) - What is the competition doing, and what do they charge? Use a Freedom of Information request and get your customers to do the work for you!
- [Seattle Residents Learn To Pick Them Up Safely](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9615) - Seattle is experiencing a heroin epidemic. Residents regularly find used needles discarded in parks and on sidewalks, and are being trained in safe collection
- [Mechanical design engineer seeks funding for needlestick campaign](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6822)
- [High cost of island healthcare waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7102)
- [Love Clean Streets](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2198) - To report needle finds on lovecleanstreets.org, users must be aware that these wastes are classified as clinical waste or risk reports being delayed or mismanaged
- [Rising number of young men in London injecting steroids](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8439) - The number of young men in London injecting steroids is rising on a "regular basis". Should a secure sharps bin now be available in every gym?
- [Antimicrobial soaps](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5651)
- [Stench of rotting medical waste including body parts 'ruins resident's life'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12779)
- [Clinical waste to dump, then back to wards!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11497)
- [WHO Healthcare Waste Blue Book updated](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6185)
- [Positive regulatory action](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2705) - The Philippines regulator is setting up checkpoints to prevent untreated hazardous wastes from hospitals being taken to a sanitary landfill in Tarlac
- [US community sharps incidents](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3448)
- [Medical waste fills the streets of Cairo](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5476)
- [Clinical and Sharps Waste Management 2023](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14450)
- [Clinical waste disposal, Russian style](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6379)
- [C diff infection study 'clearly' targeted rival medical sharps disposal company](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9676) - A US judge refuses to throw a lawsuit brought by Daniels Sharpsmart against BD who they claim funded & spread allegedly specious data on infection rates
- [Reduce, re-use, recycle, but don't waste it](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15662)
- [Degrading plastics](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15659)
- [Bouygues offers West Middlesex hospital remedy for clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11367)
- [Parents sue over illness 7 year old allegedly contracted from needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8255) - The parents of a 7-year-old who allegedly contracted an auto-immune disorder after injury from a contaminated needle while at a local hospital are suing.
- [Recycled drip bags will make 25,000 pairs of school shoes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12988)
- [Managing surgical drainage fluids](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1683) - The disposal of suction drainage canisters is a thorny subject, requiring ATT processes at higher processing temperatures and a far greater HTAT
- [Health risk and toxicity assessment of exhaust air from non-incineration devices for hospital waste treatment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15642)
- [Staged pyrolysis of medical waste for high-value product generation](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15639)
- [Energy from waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15635)
- [BD launches family of syringes addressing environmental impact](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2212) - Becton Dickinson are to launch a family of syringes addressing environmental impact
- [Stericycle Announces SafeShield™ Medical Waste Containers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14207)
- [Clinical waste disposal becomes a US presidential election issue](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4168)
- [Clinical waste operator job - Ipswich](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12574)
- [New incinerator for Guernsey](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15617) - #Work has started on a new clinical waste incinerator for Guernsey. Remarkably, this will accept clinical and hygiene wastes etc, but also animal wastes. The existing incinerator on the Princess Elisabeth Hospital is around 20 years old, showing its age, and will be closed down. The new incinerator should be ready for commissioning near the
- [Hong Kong clinic fined HK$50,000 for dumping clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10894) - 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
- [Stop Sticks campaign](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12655)
- [Clinical Waste Driver / Operative - Wednesdays and Fridays](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13437)
- [Clinical Waste Cleaner required](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13223)
- [7.5ton Clinical Waste Drivers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13999)
- [Man climbs into clinical waste bins 'to sleep and find comfort'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15608)
- [Police searching through bags of hospital waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11058)
- [Pressure mounts on Stericycle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7109)
- [HSE evaluation of the efficacy of safer sharps devices](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3139) - In what is claimed to be a systematic review and evaluation of the efficacy of 'safer sharps devices', HSE have recently published this work from HSL
- [Sharps injury risk in jails](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12739)
- [Teach, learn, improve, comply](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6795)
- [Healthcare-related intravenous microplastics](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15586)
- [The price of a chicken dinner - a needlestick injury!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15584)
- [Healthcare Foundation Nepal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5361)
- [NHS Trust Eliminate 15 Tonnes of Plastic Through Switching to a Reusable Waste Container](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15576)
- [Make mine a pint!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9278) - There aren't many uses for a 240 litre yellow clinical waste wheelie bin, and serving beer isn't one that springs immediately to mind
- [Cardiff company secures interest for PPE waste solution](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13907)
- [Packaging firm recognised for waste container made from recycled plastics](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12171)
- [Needlestick insurance](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15561)
- [Arrest after theft of three human legs from hospital waste "dump"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15551) - Blenkharn It takes all sorts - A man who stole three amputated human legs from the Cantacuzino hospital was caught by the police after two days of searching The hearings are taking place at the headquarters of the 6th Police Station, the Capital Police also reports. Criminal proceedings have been initiated against the man, under the
- [Surgeon catches cancer from patient in first-of-its-kind case](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15545)
- [Improved waste packaging - Can the waste sack be improved?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8192) - Pactosafe® is a unique automatic heat-sealing unit designed for the safe handling of cytotoxic, hazardous and toxic laboratory wastes. Will it perform safely??
- [Regulator bites!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2677) - Scripps Health agreed $272,870 penalties and costs with multiple citations over two years for improperly handling, transporting and storing medical wastes
- [Syringe goon gets 15 years](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8374) - A Bronx thief who used a hypodermic syringe to threaten and rob 10 victims was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- [Australian waste disposal firm dumps amputees' legs in tip](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10339) - An Australian bulldozer driver's discovery led to fines of $17k, after finding 2 severed legs dumped in a landfill
- [Safer needles - NHS trusts 'ignoring' EU safety directive](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3144) - The deadline for mandatory implementation of EU Directive 2010/32/EU is drawing ever closer
- [Sharps injury legislation - UK](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=194)
- [Award after needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15529)
- [HES Normanton stored waste for months, freezer turned off](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11991)
- [Kuala Lumpur waste management failures](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2193) - Kuala Lumpur Health Ministry will take action against its clinical waste contractor which failed to dispose clinical waste properly when incinerator shut down
- [Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5592)
- [Clinical waste and capacity](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13236)
- [Discussion Forum is on its way back](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15494)
- [What's interesting on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5534)
- [Hygiene precautions for waste handlers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1595) - Blenkharn Environmental has considerable experience in biosafety & hygiene audit & assessment for waste handlers, and in hygiene & safety training
- [Veolia invests £1m in cyclist safety equipment for waste fleet](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8068) - Some good news for cyclists. Recycling and waste management business Veolia is investing £1 million in cyclist safety equipment for its fleet of vehicles
- [Discussion forum is closing for a while](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=15468)
- [Innovations in packaging and resource impact](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8107) - Will comparison of the environmental impact of +PlusPak polymer bottles compared to a glass counterpart justify change in practice. And what about regulatory intransigence?
- [50% hospitals recycling some medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=173)
- [Source segregation - getting the process right](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3022) - Much is said about source segregation of waste from clinical areas. But what happens to non-hazardous general wastes. Are resource recovery options available?
- [HONcode approval continues](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11386)
- [Sustainable Achievement award for Thermal Compaction Group](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12146)
- [GP surgeries forced to store clinical waste in toilets](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12713)
- [Waste bin designer designs bin with built-in brain](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10159) - A leading waste bin designer has developed a bin specifically for clinical waste that uses ultrasound to ensure bins are never full
- [Kids and needles - what is the attraction?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7332) - Kids and needles - just what is the attraction?
- [Needle woes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6168)
- [Human remains and medical waste piling up at NHS trusts](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12079)
- [Remains from 274 soldiers in landfill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2673) - In a deliberately hand wringing piece, the Washington Post reports on the acknowledgement of remains from 274 soldiers in landfill!
- [HTM 07-01 -  Where is it now?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7928) - Where to download HTM 07:01
- [Clinical waste 'piled up' at tattoo parlour](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14547)
- [UK's Addfield to construct clinical waste-to-energy facility in Kuwait](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13000)
- [Clinical waste community collections](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11287)
- [Love it or loathe it? PVC in hospitals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5924)
- [Needle finds in Vancouver](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10023) - Thousands of used needles are being tossed on the ground in Metro Vancouver. The numbers are staggering, and grow year on year
- [UK medical PVC recycling earns sustainability award](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10426) - RecoMed, a UK recycling program for PVC-based medical devices, wins Inovyn 2016 sustainability award for its approach to sustainable healthcare recycling
- [State fines hospital over medical waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6980)
- [Chinese police bust plant recycling medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10532) - Chinese police 'bust' a plant recycling medical (clinical) waste for use in plastic toys and tableware.
- [Tradebe completes buy out of clinical waste joint venture](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10278) - Tradebe acquires the remaining 25% stake of the clinical waste joint venture with SUEZ, increasing the Tradebe UK footprint in the clinical waste sector
- [Medical waste could be used to create new hips for osteoarthritis sufferers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11456)
- [Are old ideas the best?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2606) - Many laboratories produce vast quantities of clinical waste and that tends to be plastics-rich, often suitable for recycling or enery-to-waste incineration
- [Ask for Evidence!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2437) - As long time supporters of Sense about Science, Blenkharn Environmental is pleased to support their 'Ask for Evidence' campaign
- [Clinical Waste sales exec - Grundon, Berkshire](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12226)
- [Residents' fears as clinical waste collections are cut](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10432) - Changes in bin collections in Teignbridge will mean clinical wastes will be collected fortnightly, rather than once a week.
- [Ebola-associated waste management](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8139) - CDC has prepared some detailed guidance regarding Ebola-associated waste management
- [Managing Norovirus waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3621) - Norovirus outbreaks continue to be a major seasonal problem. What to do with Norovirus waste?
- [13 clinical waste incinerators: UK firm in export deal with Pakistan](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11321)
- [What's in that sack?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2047)
- [Infection risk from hospital wastewater](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2124) - Effective and efficient sewage waste treatment process is crucial to public health
- [Placenta recipes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2524) - Disposal of placentas is costly and troublesome. The numbers are vast - in excess of 320 tonnes per annum in the UK alone
- [New FDA sharps advice portal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2572) - The US FDA has launched a new web portal offering advice and guidance on the safe disposal of sharps.
- [Biohazardous waste left behind after crashes mean mess for homeowners](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2800) - Why, given most ambulance service staff have 2 hands, is it so often there is just one discarded glove at an accident scene?
- [Dumped pills are not the main source of drugs in sewage](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10498) - The common view is that dumping unwanted medicines down the toilet is the prime source of pharmaceutical contamination in waste water. That is simply not true
- [Workers help woman find necklace buried in hospital waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10886) - A New Jersey woman was thrilled when sanitation workers found her special necklace, which had been accidentally thrown away when she went to hospital
- [Can this invention reduce clinical waste volumes?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12744)
- [Monkeypox virus transmission by sharps injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14392)
- [Body fluids leaking from waste bags](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6144)
- [That's just got to be painful!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5952)
- [Waste Manager (NHS Trust)](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13950)
- [Lifesaver syringe: useful or not?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6352)
- [Sharps safety gloves - a new and improved test method?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4685)
- [Europol warns of raids on hospital waste to sell used coronavirus masks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13275)
- [Clinical Waste Operatives Required](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12181)
- [Clinical waste driver](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11533)
- [Part Time Clinical Waste Driver](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11244)
- [Waste Manager – Clinical Facilities Contract](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11239)
- [Operator/Driver Clinical Waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11465)
- [3-months’ worth of clinical waste found unprocessed outside disposal unit](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11312)
- [Illegal human placenta trade in China using medical waste, funeral homes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13741)
- [Hotel staff exposed to clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8864) - An hotel near Massachusetts General Hospital receives patients transferred for on-going care. Staff find clinical wastes in guest bedrooms. Who is to blame?
- [New life for blue wrap?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12900)
- [Cumbria Crack reports major sharps bin dumping](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12812)
- [Charges for domiciliary clinical waste collection?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11329)
- [Wastewater treatment to remove pharma residues](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2376) - Removal of pharma residues from waste treatment waters, from hospital & nursing home wastewater, and community outflows is an emerging but important development
- [What would you do?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5681)
- [US elementary school student pricks 14 others with needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10847) - Families of 14 San Francisco Bay Area elementary school students advised to take their children to doctors after another student pricked them with a needle.
- [Yet another new kid on the block](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8218) - A new compact energy solution has been launched that will enable hospitals to turn contaminated syringes and other medical devices into heat.
- [Pilfering from clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11399)
- [Removing needles from prisons](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1994) - Needles are common in prison, creating an incredible risk for prison officers. Should they receive the care specified under EU Council Directive 2010/32/EU?
- [Take care with gloves](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1975) - Correct glove use and hand hygiene are primary health &safety issues for the waste industries and for those handling clinical and related wastes in particular
- [On-site treatment of microbiology lab waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13461)
- [Clinical Waste Operative/Driver based in Wigan](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13869)
- [Clinical Waste Driver](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12220)
- [Nine theories for severed feet finds in Bath](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10192) - The mystery of why human feet keep turning up in the Weston area of Bath has stumped police and spooked locals.
- [US medical waste market to reach US$3.2b by 2015](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1049) - US medical waste market forecast to reach US$3.2b by 2015
- [Chemical composition of laboratory wastes?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1843) - The use of molecular biological techniques in medical laboratories changes waste output composition. Care is needed to ensure appropriate disposal options
- [BD launches safety engineered devices campaign, India](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11233)
- [Environment Agency - cost and tactics?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6594)
- [Tattooist finds needle in arm decades later](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7314) - An amateur tattooist, obviously not a very good one, who lost a half-inch needle in his arm was surprised to find it 40 years later—in one of his big toes.
- [Government needs to urgently vaccinate waste operatives says waste management company](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13690)
- ["Janitor dies from inhaling medical waste"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5397)
- [Well done, Somerset](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=872) - Well done, Somerset. Waste services over the holiday period, including Christmas day, include emergency collection of discarded sharps & other hazardous wastes.
- [This septic isle?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3012) - A bulging yellow clinical waste sack is found in the River Yare in Norfolk, adding to a mix of syringes, colostomy bags and dirty bandages
- [Preventing Needlesticks and Sharps Injuries](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=293)
- [Uncollected clinical waste in Calderdale, or is it?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13897)
- [Woman furious as ‘hazardous medical waste’ left outside her home for almost a WEEK](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13527)
- [Cactus Smart Sink](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5587)
- [Combined fluid waste management system recalled in regulatory mix-up](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4355)
- [Needlesmart Partnership aims to reduce 100,000 needlestick injuries to NHS employees](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14106)
- [€10,000 for needle 'scare'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2116) - Sharps bin lid fixings must be redesigned to guarantee correct assembly. Sharps bins must never be overfilled or left in areas accessible to children.
- [Deadly medical waste racket](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=154)
- [Cost saving through source segregation of healthcare wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6734)
- [Waste pickers health hazard](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5899)
- [Incinerator catches fire!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5598)
- [Indian hospital troubled by broken incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2392) - A hospital in Kanpur, India, suffers a broken incinerator: clinical wastes are being burned in the open creating a nuisance for staff and patients.
- [Recycled medical waste floods city](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2129)
- [Clinical Waste Operative](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13876)
- [Yet another twist on sharps injury?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14616)
- [Tanzania: Fear as medical waste dumped into sea](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10788) - A referral hospital in Zanzibar dumped medical waste into the Shangani Channel in Stone Town, sending scares to beach goes and threatening marine life
- [Monkeypox after occupational needlestick Injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14612)
- [NHS commits to 50% reduction of carbon emissions from waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14587)
- [Veolia expands clinical and medical waste management services](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14595)
- [Clinical waste jobs](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13954)
- [Anti-abortionists campaign against clinical waste incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1193) - The Illinois-based Stericycle corporation faces criticism from Repent America which last week announced a Campaign to Stop Stericycle
- [Waste pharmaceuticals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1770) - Organised drives to empty medicine cabinets reduces inappropriate community POM disposal, prevents medication errors and identifies problem prescribing
- [Safer needles work!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3147) - Safer needles mandated by EU Directive 2010/32/EU really make a difference. The implementation of safety sharps across the UK must not be further delayed
- [Hand hygiene for waste handlers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1960) - Blenkharn Environmental and the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum have long recognised the importance of hand hygiene for waste handlers
- [America knows best!  Really??](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7381) - A DIY sharps container fashioned from an old detergent bottle. This latest 'recommendation' shows how poor standards of US waste safety really are
- [RCN asks members for experience of sharps and needlestick injuries](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13582)
- [Sharps injury - a personal story](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2338) - For anyone uncertain or unconvinced about the implications of a sharps injury or blood exposure, take a look at the video by the CDC's STOP STICKS Campaign.
- [Drug pollution risk 'a global responsibility'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8208) - Rich countries should help poorer countries deal with the risk posed by pharmaceutical contamination of the environment, says an Australian expert. But how?
- [Distribution, fate, and management of potentially toxic elements in incinerated medical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14554)
- [Don't do as we do, do as we say!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12771)
- [SageTech Medical waste gases capture device](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14535)
- [UN-approved clinical waste container from post-consumer recycled resin](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14009)
- [Let's spread a rumour??](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13364)
- [Could Covid-19 clinical waste help slash Birmingham’s emissions?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13865)
- [Needle danger in Bewdley alleyway](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7307) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum often chastises local authorities for their poor performance in retrieval of discarded drug litter, but that is not always the case
- [Foetal and infant cremains](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8891) - Once again, distraught Mums have been in the news, agonising about the disposal of their baby's cremains.
- [Compliance with Safer Sharps legislation - the UK Hall of Shame](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9080) - The HSE prosecutions database shows a list - a Hall of Shame - of UK hospitals receiving Improvement Notices for failure to comply with Safer Sharps legislation
- [Maintenance Team Leader - Energy from Waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10907) - Maintenance Team Leader required at EfW plant station in Birmingham. Responsible for scheduling/supervising maintenance tasks on a clinical waste incinerator
- [Vast cost of medicines waste in north Norfolk - who is to blame?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8781) - Thousands of pounds are spent in north Norfolk due to medicine wastage. Blamed on patients' stockpiling medicines this couldn't be further from the truth.
- [Hospital inspections - what is the risk of infection?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2623) - A watchdog’s inspection found a West Suffolk Hospital meeting essential standards, but had concerns about handling of clinical wastes during patient meal times
- [Confusion in Fenland - what do we do with our sharps bins?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12024)
- [Fenland clinical waste charging issues rumble on](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11530)
- [Medical Waste Services in Australia business analysis report](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6540)
- [A little bit of knowledge....](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11258)
- [Sharps waste dumped in Totnes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11294)
- [Cat drags away foetus at Mumbai hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12844)
- [Medical waste incinerator machine for hospital under Swachhta Action Plan](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13728)
- [Domiciliary clinical waste collection problems](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6563)
- [Is this waste safe?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1198) - It is a bold statement that medical waste washed from a defective coastal landfill site to contaminate the ocean presents no risk of infection
- [No go for Shotts incinerator plan](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2893) - After substantial delay, North Lanarkshire Council has decided to reject a planning application for a controversial medical waste treatment plant in Shotts
- [Honolulu landfill 'disaster'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1278) - Further detail is available now concerning 'failure' of the controversial city landfill at Waimanalo Gulch.
- [Postal restrictions on the carriage of biohazardous materials and sharps](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5512)
- [Disposal of aborted foetuses](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6941)
- [HIV positive nurse injects baby with needle she used on herself](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6799)
- [Microbiological hazards of clinical waste sacks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4448)
- [Hull factory to recycle Covid-19 vaccination syringes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14453)
- [Clinical Waste Operative](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12213)
- [Updated HONCode approval for the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8938) - You can rely on the HONCode standards, and you can rely on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum.
- [Landfill health hazards?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5460)
- [Advertising on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2763)
- [Continuing HONCode certification for the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1211) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum is fully committed to the HONCode Principles and is pleased to have achieved recertification in 2011
- [Needlestick campaign?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6119)
- [Another year of successful HONCode certification for our Forum](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13006)
- [The lighter side of Clinical Waste Discussion Forum](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4030)
- [HONcode approval reaffirmed](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10820) - For the 11th successive year, the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum and Blenkharn Environmental have received reaffirmation of its HONcode compliance
- [PHE issues Coronavirus waste disposal advice](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13060)
- [Recycling clinical waste?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14268)
- [Myanmar’s illegal trade in medical waste poses massive infection risk](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14360)
- [CQC cites care home clinical waste failure](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10333) - Workers at a Clevedon care home left ‘clinical waste’ outside residents’ rooms, according to its latest Care Quality Commission report. What are the issues?
- [Radioactive contamination of healthcare wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10707) - Who screens their outgoing and incoming healthcare wastes for radioactive contamination?
- [Two Clinical Cleaners, Dagenham](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10578) - Based at your local ASDA Dagenham, there are vacancies for two "clinical cleaners" on a temporary basis until until February 2017.
- [PPE recycled to make stronger concrete](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14300)
- [US "Stop Stericycle" campaign spreads to Stericycle suppliers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2884)
- [Canvey not clearing needles and clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11958)
- [Splash and Splatter](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8143) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum makes no apology for banging on about blood splash exposures to the mouth and eyes as a risk for healthcare waste handlers.
- [Clinical Waste Operative Jobs - Sunderland](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12571)
- [Microwave waste treatment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14263)
- [Tragic newborn Baby S dumped at recycling centre](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14245)
- [Collection for unwanted medical equipment extended across recycling centres](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14241)
- [Community pharma waste collection schemes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2556) - Though some civic amenity sites accept pharma wastes these are often excluded so these enter the domestic waste stream or are flushed down the loo!
- [Do not recycle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3753)
- [Waste spill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2349)
- [Anibiotics in the environment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3291) - De minimis levels of pharma residues in clinical waste is used belligerently to manipulate the planning and regulatory processes. That is wrong and must stop.
- [High Court orders removal of waste from Wicklow landfill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10942) - Wicklow council has been ordered to remove up to 1.4m tonnes of contaminated soil from the site of the largest illegal dump discovered in the State to date.
- [Steroid abuse continues to grow](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9209) - Steroid abuse and the risk of infection through drug vial and needle sharing continues to grow. Police and gym users using steroids to bulk up
- [CQC closes nursing home](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8396) - As CQC inspection closes another nursing home, reported problems include clinical waste issues such as unlocked and insecure waste carts
- [e-learning programme launched](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13694)
- [Clinical (medical) waste management: market revenue, by services, 2011/18](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6510)
- [Pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in aquatic systems](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4598)
- [Clinical Waste Operative](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14209)
- [Stericycle Reaches Settlement in Latin America Anti-Corruption Investigation](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14213)
- [The workers are revolting!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11382)
- [Namibia hospital struggles with ineffective incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2969)
- [Isle of Wight NHS Trust is Healthcare Recycler of the Year](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9043) - The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has won the prestigious Healthcare Recycler of the Year title at the National Recycling Award 2015
- [Clinical Waste Driver in Geelong, Australia](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6512)
- [NeedleSmart advertising claims](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14186)
- [Grundon rolls out sustainable clinical waste containers using recycled plastic](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14176)
- [Schoolgirl falls on discarded needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7020)
- [Scottish Environment Protection Agency on storage and treatment of healthcare waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14169)
- [Stericycle clinical waste incinerator violates air quality standards; allegations of cheating](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5918)
- [Healthcare Environmental Services trial to begin soon](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14118)
- [Plant to incinerate clinical waste to create electricity](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14120)
- [NHS ‘care hotels’ spark hygiene and safety concerns](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14129)
- [Global medical waste management - it's a very mucky business](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14160)
- [Drug residues escape wastewater treatments](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3919)
- [Radioactive clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6128)
- [Disposal of stillborn 'child' as clinical waste - European Court judgement](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8213) - It has been in the news recently, and discussed on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum, pondering the disposal of foetal remains after stillbirth or abortion
- ['Bodies in bins' detector](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12883)
- [Contaminated linen and bed roll waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6656)
- [VIDEO: PVC recycling for UK hospitals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9979) - PVC recycling for clinical wastes from UK hospitals is taking off. Let's hope it is successful, and wins cooperation and support of producers and regulators
- [Pressure group sets itself against pyrolysis](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3996)
- [How not to pick up discarded syringes and needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2415) - Despite an obvious awareness that needles present a significant risk to health, this chap in picking discarded needles while wearing flip flops!
- [Encouraging vaccination - every little helps](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14077)
- [Analysis & forecast of medical waste management market to 2021](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10229)
- [Clinical Waste/Hygiene Driver – Wigan](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14066)
- [More used face masks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14063)
- [Valorisation of used surgical masks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14056)
- [Novel contraption for Vietnam clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2600) - A Vietnamese clinical waste incinerator may not be totally efficient and pollution free but is treating waste that was dangerous and difficult to dispose of
- [One third of NHS acute Trusts in breach of EU & UK sharps rules](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6915)
- [Waste crime, and a deserving penalty!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14039)
- [Clinical Waste Operative](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13884)
- [Waste prescription drugs - still blaming patients?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8588) - Bristol patients asked to cut £3.5 million medicines waste. With better GP prescribing wastage decline considerably, and environmental burden lessened
- [Businessman caught running £2.6m illegal waste racket](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14026)
- [Needle decap/recap, with a sting in the tail?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14011)
- [Protecting our environment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=14006)
- [C1 (7.5ton) Clinical Waste Drivers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13974)
- [Free webinar on sharps safety in non-hospital settings](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2101) - The International Healthcare Worker Safety Center sponsors a free webinar: “Achieving Sharps Safety Compliance in Non-Hospital Healthcare Settings”
- [Sharps injury hazard for pregnant farm workers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13990)
- [Mathematical programming model for Covid-19 clinical wastes waste management](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13978)
- [Disposal of explanted pacemakers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12637)
- ['Appalling clinical waste' dumped at South Belfast youth club](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13855)
- [Hospital Waste Porter](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13892)
- [HSE Consultation on proposals to implement the 2010 Sharps in Healthcare Directive](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3798)
- [Interesting research paper - healthcare/clinical waste management](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13937)
- [Farmers fear bankruptcy from medical waste incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13933)
- [Business Development Executive – Clinical Waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9548)
- [Six-figure fines for bloodborne pathogens violations](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8052) - US court upholds large fine for exposing laundry staff to bloodstained lab coats - would the same apply to the protection of ancillary staff and waste handlers?
- [Locals worry about recycling plant's plans to incinerate clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13920)
- [Investigation after shipping container with used medical waste left unlocked](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13917)
- [Sharps by post](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1286) - If postal regulations prohibit sharps disposal by post, collaboration bewteen waste contractors and medical motorbike courier sevices may be the way forward.
- [Is Bellshill Industrial Estate the best place for a clinical waste plant?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13902)
- [Recycling firm fined £60k for fire safety breaches](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1384) - A waste and recycling company in Poole has been ordered to pay out more than £60,000 after it breached a number of fire safety rules.
- [Pharma waste: An untapped resource?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2308) - It is generally difficult to perceive pharmaceutical wastes as a resource but for some there is an obvious cash value to these wastes.
- [Blaze at Bellshill medical waste plant](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13846)
- [Stericycle and UPS aim to solve logistic issues for medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13840)
- [Upset as 100ft clinical waste incinerator towers over homes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13835)
- [Disposing used sharps](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8244) - How to dispose used sharps after self-administration of illegal anabolic steroid?
- [Thank you BIFFA](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13826)
- [Architect Creates Hospital Ward from Trash](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13824)
- [Pyropure sends pyrolysis unit to tackle Ebola in West Africa](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7828) - In a generous act of compassion, technology developer PyroPure will donate an on-site medical waste pyrolysis systems to West Africa to help stop the spread of Ebola
- [Workers who lost jobs at HES Shotts clinical waste plant land six-figure compensation payout](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13812)
- [Business Development Manager, Clinical Waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10361) - Coventry-based Business Development Manager (Clinical Wastes) sought
- [Account Manager - Clinical Waste - £40K + 20%](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10282) - Service Company expanding, wants to employ an Accounts Manager, Clinical Waste for North Thames area.
- [Environmentalists to investigate medical waste on Durban beaches](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11272)
- [Open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1282) - Open-air burn pits still operate in Iraq & Afghanistan. Despite much lobbying pollution remains the order of the day with respirators only for US Army staff.
- [Cleanaway plans to kill low-cost health competitor](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13539)
- [Drug Disposal System-Pill Crusher](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10492) - The Drug Disposal System-Pill Crusher is a specially designed device to feed pills (medications) into, and they are crushed automatically. Is that sufficient?
- [Medicinal Waste and Medicines Reuse](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13785)
- [This septic isle?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5701)
- [US medical waste management market to reach US$3.5 billion by 2017](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3195)
- [On-farm clinical waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7029)
- [Discarded face masks are everywhere](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13774)
- [Unsung heroes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13766)
- [A roadmap for bio-medical waste management research](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13764)
- [Safe distance-based vehicle routing: medical/clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13762)
- [Used needles found dumped in Cornish towns](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11972)
- [Pharmaceutical drugs in York's rivers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11451)
- [Raids in doctors’ offices for dangerous clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13749)
- [200,000 PPE items recycled in VetPartners project](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13739)
- [Thermal Compaction Group in new joint venture with Greencycl](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13730)
- [Managing lateral flow device (LFD) testing waste: RPS C25](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13736)
- [Sculptor turns medical waste into art](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13726)
- [NICE - Infection -Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in primary and community care - Issue March 2012](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11284)
- [Stericycle settles with EPA on emissions accusation](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13678)
- [Technical proposal for the review of hazardous properties](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3458) - The 2000/532/EC List of Waste and Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC (properties that render wastes hazardous) are currently under review. Comments are invited
- [School Covid-19 testing waste advice for contractors](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13647)
- [Girl finds dirty needles in Worthing park](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11969)
- [Covid-19 infection among waste handlers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13697)
- [Staff absence forces company to make alternative arrangements for clinical waste collections from vaccination centres](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13686)
- [Two hospital porters die of Covid-19 infection](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13683)
- [Recycling plastics from clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=241)
- [Writ filed at Appeal Court regarding import of clinical waste from UK](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12641)
- [Do hospitals create too much waste?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=220)
- [Veolia launches Covid-19 test kit treatment service](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13653)
- [Malvern clinical waste plant to undergo commissioning](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13643)
- [Risks as hospital burns medical waste in open pit](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11323)
- [Hepatitis C from sharps injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3359) - Three medical workers in Scottish hospitals have caught Hepatitis C after sharps injury
- [FDA Proposes reclassification of Needle Destruction Devices](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11076)
- [Vehicle accidents](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=708) - Reports of 2 vehicle accidents involving the carriage of clinical (medical) waste
- [Syringes litter Hong Kong beaches](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10462) - Syringes litter Hong Kong beaches. Thankfully, some good people are removing these, and putting pressure on authorities to reduce or eliminate this pollution
- [Difficult contract terms](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3472) - Flagged up by the Waste Management Networking group of LinkedIn, the BBC are reporting some disquiet over the contract terms imposed by PHS Wastetech.
- [1,000+ posts on the updated Clinical Waste Discussion Forum](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6611)
- [Drug abuse in sport](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3498) - Drug abuse in rife in sport and the sports culture. Lack of control, and a lack of awareness by others risks exposure to an improperly discarded needle
- [CalRecycle levy sharps disposal charge on IV drug manufacturers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10151) - CalRecycle require IV pharmaceutical makers tol be financially responsible for collection and disposal of used sharps. Is that the most logical approach?
- [Model guidelines for home-generated pharmaceutical collection programs in California](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1714) - CalRecycle have published model guidelines for home-generated pharmaceutical collection programs in California
- [Sharps "lost" in hospital laundry](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10398) - Sharps "lost" in hospital laundry had been a widespread and common problem, though these days we hear so little about it. Has it really got any better?
- [Claim for sharps injury tops $600,000 AS](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3393) - Sharps injury claims are increasing in frequency of reported injuries increase and the legal professions start to see these actions as profitable
- [Well done Biffa](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3337) - Well done Biffa Waste Management and their staff who worked hard to maintain high workplace safety standards, resulting in a donation to the local Air Ambulance
- [Incinerating specified healthcare wastes at a municipal waste incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13579)
- [Another sharps injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6000)
- [Hobart school kids share syringes to prick themselves](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5941)
- [Anxious wait for 12 year old girl who fell onto a discarded needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5561)
- [Needle risk hidden in snow, sand, grass](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1009) - As the UK continues to suffer bad weather, an Australian man has an anxious 6 month wait after stepping on a syringe at Little Manly Beach
- [Anenta launches COVID-19 compliant clinical waste audit app](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13566)
- [Researching novel PPE waste treatments](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13561)
- [Down on the farm - needlestick is a real risk](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11126)
- [GPs claim clinical waste backlog prevents them seeing patients](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13553)
- [Sharpsmart facility approved for Spennymoor](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13551)
- [Trusts paying triple the cost following NHS clinical waste scandal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12042)
- [Hygiene and clinical waste failures at Dublin hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6370)
- [Beddington incinerator not hot enough for clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13536)
- [Covid-19 - Which hospital staff are important just now?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13524)
- [Body parts and medical waste bake in containers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3571) - Refrigerating clinical waste occasionally appears on the UK agenda but is dismissed as unnecessary energy expenditure - global warming may soon change all that
- [World Bank supports Vietnam clinical waste treatment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9102) - The World Bank supports a project to build in Vietnam a clinical/medical waste treatment area with a total cost of VND120 billion (US$5.4 million)
- [Sri Lanka sends 260 tonnes of illegally imported waste back to UK](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13515)
- [Theft of medical waste van](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13513)
- [Another healthcare waste-related fatality](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13503)
- [Dump On Us?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10807) - Dispose of unwanted items for FREE at the six upcoming Dump On Us events! Visalia City, US, will recycle everything possible and properly dispose of the rest
- [PPE waste from home healthcare workers - Covid19](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13374)
- [Baby girl found at Bradford recycling centre](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13487)
- [Hospital porter tests positive for coronavirus](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13480)
- [Foetus in clinical waste bin](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5525)
- [Complains about appalling state of hospital toilets](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3766)
- [Industrial dispute stops waste collection](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1018) - An industrial dispute adds to delays in waste collections in Brmingham, with domestic and sanitary/offensive wastes piled on teh streets
- [Theresa May meets ‘unsung heroes’ of Grundon’s clinical waste team](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13473)
- [How and where to store waste carts?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1989) - Anger in North Berwick over placing of hospital waste bins. No concern for visual amenity, waste security or social role valorisation of hospital residents.
- [Cement kiln engineered fuel patents and sharps PELLA-DRX™](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5378)
- [US:  Clinical waste containers fall from truck](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6071)
- [Waste exports to Sri Lanka?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12651)
- [Complaints over hospital’s waste plans](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5352)
- [Sharps disposal errors](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1430) - Sharps-related and other disposal problems requires a joint approach to improvement in waste management practice through education and training, and enforcement
- [UK waste incinerators 3x as likely to be in deprived areas](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13425)
- [UMF Corp's Hygiene Specialist Excellence Award Winner announced](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5719)
- [Veolia highlights significant carbon reductions using energy recovery facilities for clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13413)
- [Ebola waste treatment - a new kid on the block?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8203) - The scramble to ship effective waste sterilisation facilities to those West African countries presently affected by Ebola virus infection rolls on
- [Waste from funeral parlours](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2949) - Waste volume from funeral parlours are considerable. Guidelines exist for infection prevention and waste management but with small margins many corners are cut
- [Technical guidance for environmental permitting: healthcare waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13390)
- [Andusia awarded Sole Supplier Contract for largest clinical waste plant in the UK for 20 Year](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13387)
- [Covid-19 PPE waste from home healthcare delivery](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13375)
- [Medical waste dumped into Satilla River, Ware County, Georgia](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2082) - Large volumes of clinical waste, of sharps and of pharmaceuticals wastes are produced on farms but much of it 'disappears'. How is the disposed?
- [No wonder it's so bad](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2960) - Clinical wastes should be managed to an exemplary standard, to maintain hygiene standards and eliminate hazards from sharps injury. But is that always so good?
- [Environment Agency approves Veolia’s clinical waste application](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13360)
- [£25m UK clinical waste plant built at existing biomass facility in Stoke-on-Trent](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13358)
- [Trick or treat?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6561)
- [Getting rid of a needle?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7934) - Getting rid of a needle when the Police approach might be seen as a last chance option to escape arrest. But hiding it down a stranger's pants is seriously weird
- [Sharps bin for ambulant use](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2135) - Sharps bins are generally big and bulky. Though the smaller sizes may sit neatly on a desk or bench top, for those who are out and about they are simply too big
- [NHS a ‘significant polluter’ producing 590,000 tonnes of waste a year](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11365)
- [Clinical waste from Scotland to be sent to Wales](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12534)
- [Medical waste incinerator violates human rights](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8893) - Astonishingly, the South African Human Rights Commission decrees EnviroServ’s Bloemfontein medical waste incinerator compromises a right to a clean environment
- [Nurses on 'cleanup mission'?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=689) - Some nurses are on a mission to clean up clinical waste disposal, focusing on disposal options, while others ignore the rules, and value of, source segregation.
- [Another Birmingham needle attack](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8331) - A man stabbed a woman with a needle outside Birmingham New Street station. Please look at this CCTV image and help the Police search for the attacker
- [More clinical waste on US beaches](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2387) - It seems to be a particular affliction for American beaches, that so often they suffer from clinical and related wastes washed up on the tide
- [Cleansing and PPE waste at a healthcare waste management facility: RPS C1](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13313)
- [Environment Agency RPS updates](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13311)
- [BMA sets out guidelines on needlestick injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9995)
- [Bad recycling](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4467)
- [Sinotec autoclaves](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9025) - Autoclaves are ubiquitous in the healthcare environment, and beyond in the management of infectious healthcare (clinical or medical) wastes. So, what is new with the Sinotec system?
- [20,000 improperly discarded hypodermic needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10745) - More than 20,000 improperly discarded hypodermic needles retrieved in Boston in one year. That's a statistic that nobody would wish to have
- [Grundon team wins Unsung Hero award at NHS Trust](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13294)
- [Is the US prescription drug takeback law the right approach?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3993)
- [Sharps bin installed at Seattle café](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10062) - Starbucks Seattle has taken the challenge and put sharps bins in its toilets to protect staff and customers alike. Well done Starbucks
- [Thousands of syringes on Scotland's streets](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6998)
- [Brokenshire overrules inspector to refuse Hertfordshire energy from waste plant](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12640)
- [Fly-tipping increases in Birmingham](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12806)
- [Fears over clinical waste collection changes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10767) - Council chiefs sought to allay fears over the way clinical waste will now be collected from households in the area. Information and clarity are essential.
- [More COVID-19 regulatory position statements from Environment Agency](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13241)
- [Sheath removal for hypodermic needles - right or wrong?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11276)
- [Management of Coronavirus waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13234)
- [NHS managers ordered to consider environmental impact](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1218) - NHS managers have been "ordered" to consider the environmental impact of their decisions.
- [Veolia to process healthcare waste at Tyseley](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13220)
- [Storing/treating COVID-19 cleansing waste at a healthcare waste management facility](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13218)
- [NHS workers wearing clinical waste sacks for COVID-19 protection?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13211)
- [Kirklees Council 0/10 for clinical waste services](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6421)
- [Safe sharps disposal, or not?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2702)
- [Needlestick prevention inventor wins big at convention](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10916) - A needle that automatically caps itself after use has attracted interest from manufacturers to mass-produce them from less than NT$3 per unit.
- [Waste Management Driver job](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13062)
- [DEFRA in COVID-19 contingency talks with waste sector](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13163)
- [£100,000 for Trust's clinical waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1098) - Plans to install weigh stations may help reduce clinical waste disposal costs but not necessarily raise overall waste management standards
- [Jobs, jobs, jobs ...](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7692) - Jobs, jobs, jobs ... in the clinical waste sector
- [Warning after needlestick injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1817) - With no distinction between private and council-owned properties, Local Authority must collect drug litter dumped illegally at residential properties
- [Fined for dumping clinical (medicines) waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9013) - UK 'man with a van' is fined for dumping household refuse and unwanted prescription drugs
- [Defra issues advice to the waste sector because of coronavirus and their household waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13127)
- [World’s most expensive hotel room has bar made out of medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13057)
- [Demand to store all clinical wastes indoors?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13054)
- [Covid-19 coronavirus precautions?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13046)
- [Insect and rodent infestations](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6270)
- [Plastics recovered from clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1174) - Plastics recovered from clinical wastes must first be rendered safe
- [Appropriate measures for permitted facilities that take healthcare waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=13019)
- [Deadly trade in medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=647) - The illicit salvage and reuse of items from clinical wastes places lives at risk
- [Australia helps establish clinical waste management systems in Sri Lankan state hospitals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9076) - Sri Lanka has received Australian assistance to establish clinical waste management systems in the country's state hospitals
- [Wuhan novel coronavirus (WN-CoV) precautions](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12991)
- [New clinical waste treatment plant for Tamworth](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12984)
- [US spillage of medical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6698)
- [Helicopter slices roof off truck carrying hospital wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12947)
- [Newhaven Clinical waste plant given green light](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12217)
- [Luton park needle finds](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6207)
- [£20k savings on clinical waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2228) - Northampton General Hospital claims savings of £20,000 on clinical waste disposal through enhanced source segregation
- [Local Authority 'dumps' clinical waste collections](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2357) - More and more of the plastic fraction of clinical wastes can be recycled, whether treated to render safe before recovery or safe for immediate processing
- [Cancer risk high - is it linked to old clinical waste incinerators?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5579)
- [NHS Lanarkshire scoops environmental project award](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12908)
- [Burglars enter locked HES site](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12904)
- [New EU rules to impact UK’s energy-from-waste sector](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12898)
- [Tradebe Scotland clinical waste facility opens](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12881)
- [Three charged with drug offences after council waste depot raid](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9068) - Three workers have been charged with drug offences after police raided the waste management depot at West Lothian Council.
- [Recycling operation halted by needle finds](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3128) - A Fife recycling plant was brought to a standstill when a sharps bin was found on the picking line.
- [Hospital Waste Porter required in Stevenage](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12537)
- [Cookies](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6303)
- [Cromwell launch scented, antimicrobial tiger sack for clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12855)
- [HES Ltd - The Truth?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12168)
- [Clinical waste incineration capacity row deepens](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12020)
- [West Gourdie whiff](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2254) - The Healthcare Environmental Services Dundee treatment plant is under increased scrutiny from SEPA after residents and others kicked up a stink about odours
- [Lean purchasing](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=816) - A purchasing award for the NHS Commercial Procurement Collaborative celebrates a clinical waste disposal contract for Healthcare Environmental Services Group
- [Hospital chimney lighting up for disability day](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12842)
- [Regulator acts after potential ‘risk to human health’ at warehouse](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12838)
- [Concise Analysis of the International Medical Waste Management Market](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6874)
- [Global clinical and medical waste management market Analysis reports published](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6652)
- [Leeds is England's fly tipping capital with dead animals and medical waste dumped](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12809)
- [Fly tipping never been worse in Birmingham - more rubbish than ever dumped](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12807)
- [Needlestick - a mother's anguish](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8458) - You try not, but it's hard not to think that your child may become infected by a lethal disease after accidental needlestick
- [HIV outbreak, Pakistan, tops 1,100 cases](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12794)
- [Green light for Tradebe, Bellshill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12788)
- [Hospital Staff Accused of Selling Pop Star's Medical Waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12777)
- [Grundon - Clinical Waste sales executive](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11525)
- [Clinical waste and needles dumped along Humber](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12766)
- [Legislating drug waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2369) - Pharmaceutical take-back schemes must consider methods to raise awareness among householders and the need for collection of non-prescription medicinal wastes
- [Sharps-related infections](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1880) - A wide diversity of infections can be transmitted by sharps or needlestick injury or following blood and bloodstained bloody fluid exposure.
- [Carer slams plans to change waste collections in Sheffield](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12273)
- [It must be quiet in Malta, very quiet!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12755) - Cabinet members, chairmen and CEOs attend opening of new waste bin. Next week, an envelope?
- [Scandal-hit NHS hospital bill could hit £400m as ‘fabric’ of new building needs changed](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12749)
- [Drug residues escape wastewater treatments](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12733)
- [Woman wants to use skin from her amputated leg to make handbag](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12281)
- [Clinical waste left in decommissioned hospitals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=995)
- [Ohio temporary waste workers exposed to medical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6472)
- [Clinical Waste disposal operative](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12232)
- [Asbestos, clinical and hygiene waste to be stored near homes in Worksop](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12716)
- [Waste management data for England 2017](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12709)
- [Are special EA dispensations threatening the clinical waste sector?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12697)
- [Plans for medical waste incinerator in Kilmarnock scrapped](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12692)
- [No end in sight for Scotland’s clinical waste crisis](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12687)
- [Disposal of tissue waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12682)
- [Implementing EU Directive 2010/32/EU](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3324) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum is pleased to record the BD support service that will assist end-users in the implementation of Directive 2010/32/EU
- [Scandal hit HES Ltd fails to produce vital accounts as server goes missing](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12673)
- [Was Scots clinical waste containing body parts sent to Sri Lanka?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12671)
- [Child gets sharps injury while visiting hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=239)
- [Clinical Waste & Environmental Compliance Officer/Quality Controller/Auditor](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11379)
- [Plant Manager – Clinical Waste Depot Management](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10676) - Opportunity for a Clinical Waste Depot Plant Manager. Excellent management and team leadership skills required by a company in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
- [New figures show drop in waste sector fatalities](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12659)
- [Waste sector risks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12657)
- [Clinical waste incinerator may be built in Kilmarnock](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12646)
- [Sharps and Overdose Awareness training](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12630)
- [Scientists call to classify plastic waste as hazardous waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5501)
- [Does outsourced cleaning increased MRSA infection rates?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10524) - English NHS hospitals employing private rather than in-house cleaners, might see reduced costs but could also raise risk of MRSA infection
- [Tradebe acquires Labwaste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11253)
- [Healthcare Wastes - a new reference work](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8827) - Healthcare Wastes - a new reference work
- [Clinical waste management - bringing science to the selection of contractors](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1758) - The application of science to the selection of waste management contractor secures the best possible contract service - the key goal for waste producers
- [Drug waste in natural waters](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2248) - Drug residues present and persisting in natural water is an effective marker for a potentially serious adverse environmental effect.
- [Mum’s horror over needle on beach](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4368)
- [Anxious wait for council cleaner](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6224)
- [No excuses. Deal with it!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=189)
- [Clinical Waste disposal operative](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12564)
- [Lies, damn lies, and statistics?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4240)
- [Firm signed up to 'solve' Scottish healthcare waste crisis hit by red tape](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12587)
- [Social role valorisation](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12585)
- [Healthcare regulators seek clinical waste issues](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12580)
- ['Treated' clinical wastes fly tipped in Hampshire](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12567)
- [Clinical Waste disposal operative - Merseyside](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12393)
- [Medical waste found dumped at cemetery](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=54)
- [Politics slows Lanarkshire treatment plant planning](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12557)
- [How Ebola strains West Africa’s infrastructure](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8088) - Scientific American has an important and thoughtful piece concerning the problem of waste management in Ebola-affected regions
- [Albania: medical waste dumped on river bank](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10931) - A medical waste company, Euroteam, has been caught dumping untreated hospital waste on a river bank in Tirana, following an investigation by a TV show
- [The Health Care Waste Forum Summit & Expo 2011](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1307) - 2nd Biennial Healthcare Waste Summit and Expo 2011, Johannesburg SA
- [In more](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12548)
- [Scotland gets more bad press concerning storage of clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12544)
- [Manhunt after North London needle attacks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2628) - Detectives are trying to identify a man suspected of stabbing two women with a sharp implement, thought to be a needle, in north London
- [Excessive GP prescribing](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9408) - GP over-prescribing is responsible for massive waste of NHS funds, antibiotic resistance rises, and the vast quantity of unwanted and waste pharmaceuticals
- [Veolia worker jailed for £250,000 theft](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10197) - A forklift truck driver stole £250,000 of out-of-date medical supplies from a Veolia waste facility so they could be sold on the black market
- [Medical wastes for sale](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1664) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has repeatedly commented on risks associated with and causes of a deadly trade in used items of clinical (medical) waste
- [Rise in needle injuries following HSE Ltd??](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12322)
- [Shetland processing 700 tonnes clinical waste from mainland](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12326)
- [NHS buys mobile needle exchange for addicts amid HIV 'outbreak'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11343)
- [What penalty for clinical waste errors?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10319) - Three Saudi hospital staff were sentenced to 3 months jail and 70 lashes for gross negligence when a baby, mistaken for medical waste and thrown in garbage bin
- [Clinical waste piles up at Whipps Cross Hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10925)
- [Needle attacks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10238) - Why allow IDU's access to non-safety engineered sharps? Passive safety sharps would be safe and effective, enabling universal prohibition of plain needles
- [New low for Glasgow residents](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10080) - Terrified Glasgow residents plead for help to stop addicts using their close as a shooting gallery, leaving syringes and drug paraphernalia to blight their home
- [Ninewells Hospital, again!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7100)
- [SRCL expand into patient transport, and get it badly wrong](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8672) - Yorkshire-based ERS Medical, owned by the SRCL Group, is the new patient pick-up provider for the Royal Free Hospital. All is not well.
- [Hospital is fly-tip victim](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6430)
- [Man steps on needle in Bournemouth Hospital car park](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3854)
- [Uncertainty about domestic clinical waste collection funding](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8365) - Uncertainty about domestic clinical waste collections after NHS England pulls the plug on funding & patients are left in the lurch and are complaining bitterly
- [Is that REALLY clinical waste?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10555) - When is clinical waste not clinical waste? The answer, it seems, is flexible and depends on what they want in order to bolster their case
- [Four-year-old finds blood covered needle in Greggs toilet](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10289) - A 4-year old discovered a blood-covered needle in the toilet of Greggs. Instead of touching it, he called his Gran who reported it to staff. What a star!
- [Medical Waste Management Market by Sector, Service, Treatment Technology, Geography](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8842) - Medical Waste Management Market by Sector, Service, Treatment Technology & Geography - Global Trends & Forecast to 2018.
- [Needlestick emergency treatment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4288)
- [Newport hospitals' medical wrap waste fuels recycling](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11404)
- [NHS trust invited to review sharps regulations](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10688) - An NHS Trust will take part in the Health and Safety Executive’s review of the sharps regulations, being only 4 Trusts out of 40 to comply with the regulations
- [Five-year-old has 11 hours A&E after needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10287) - THE mother of a five-year-old who stepped on a dirty needle in a public park tells of an 11 hour wait in Accident & Emergency. That is unacceptable.
- [Anger and slow response as 100 needles dumped in Newport lane](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9119) - A Newport teenager who found around 100 needles dumped in a popular lane has criticised the City Council for not removing them sooner
- [Lorry carrying clinical waste overturns on motorway bridge](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10798) - A Tradebe clinical waste disposal lorry, spilt some fuel after flipping over and was just inches from the barrier on a motorway flyover
- [Fly-tippers dump clinical waste bags](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10292) - Orange and yellow bags appearing to contain clinical waste have apparently been fly-tipped near Stoneclough, Bolton
- [What price a needlestick injury?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9155) - What price a needlestick injury? Average compensation is around £2,000 but in one notable case a young doctor picked up £500,000+ claiming psychological injury
- [Poetic justice?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10027) - Drug user has needle phobia. Picks up driving for 12 months and ordered to pay £235 in court fines. Poetic justice.
- ["Guidance" from Water UK for healthcare waste water discharges](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8288) - Water UK has updated its "guidance" on healthcare wastewater discharges, that no doubt will be extrapolated to healthcare waste treatment facilities also
- [Horrified mum discovers dirty used needles while on school run](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10021)
- [6-month wait for sharps bin collection](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10717) - A diabetic lady in York has complained about the requirement to store her filled sharps bins for at least 6 months before collection.
- [Google +1 button on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2103)
- [Waste duty of care code of practice](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10018) - DEFRA and the Environment Agency has published practical guidance on how to meet the waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales
- [Man guilty of hazardous waste activity at Nottingham](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9283) - A Nottingham man pleaded guilty yesterday to two charges relating to the illegal operation of a regulated waste facility
- [Managing needle disposal safely](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7363) - We have sharps bins in public toilets, parks, gardens & church yards and other drug hot spots, gyms, and now the local KFC restaurant!
- [Don't oppose needle exchange schemes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7353) - Needle exchange schemes are a great idea. They prevent disease transmission by needle sharing, and reduce the incidence of discarded needles in the community
- [Accusations of healthcare waste dumping on old Braintree hospital site](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6374)
- [Sharps danger on Southend beach](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6366)
- [Stolen car contained nuclear medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6332)
- [Braintree mum's disgust over needle find in park](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6251)
- [Police error returns heroin needle to family](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6212)
- [Contract pricing](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5235)
- [2010/32/EU - don't use safety sharps?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4672)
- [Scandal of hospital porter 'cut by used needles'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4537)
- [Sharps waste found in domestic refuse from UK hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4334)
- [Saving money](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2668) - As recession bites, domestic clinical waste collections will fall from weekly to fortnightly services. Will needle & drug litter retrieval suffer the same fate?
- [Medical waste contaminating blue bins](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2473) - Thurrock council uses blue bins for recyclables; contamination of this waste stream with medical waste and needles raises concerns, of money but not safety!
- [Oxford drug litter](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2456) - In drug abuse hot spots characterised by persistent drug litter, a secure sharps bin would seem appropriate
- [Waste management operations - where should they be located?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1390) - Locating waste managment facilities is always difficult but it seems logical to cluster these with all the various waste management facilities located together
- [Reducing medicines waste: setting the right priorities](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1380) - Prescription & non-prescription pharmaceutical waste is a big problem but little is done to drive lean prescribing and provide takeback or collection services
- [Council slammed over lack of clinical waste collections](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11481)
- [Street cleaners find human organs in garbage bin](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11469)
- [Tissue waste disposal, Russian style?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11337)
- [Stericycle clients wavering as Utah woes continue](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6529)
- [NHS Clinical Waste Porter](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10665) - Meridian Health are looking for Porters to work on one of their NHS sites based in the Dewsbury area.
- [Guernsey Health department fined £10k after blood samples sent to recycling depot](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10626) - Guernsey’s Health and Social Care department has been fined £10,000, after clinical waste was sent to an island recycling plant.
- [A better waste sack?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4610)
- [Europe's burning desire for alternatives to medical waste incineration](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1620) - A brief but insightful business overview of future trends in the clinical waste market and preferences for waste processing from Frost & Sullivan
- [Ill-advised in Ilminister?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2515) - The old women’s public loos in Ilminster look set to be given a new lease of life, housing a chest freezer to store clinical waste
- [Environmental costs of sharps disposal systems](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1427) - Claims of environmental advantage and lower carbon footprint for reusable sharps bins are unsubstantiated and may be little more than advertising flimflam
- [Recycling deal for medical sharps waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1694) - BD, one of the world's largest sharps and syringe manufacturers, and Waste Management plan a joint venture to recycle medical sharps waste from hospitals
- [Scots hospitals risk cross-contamination transporting clinical waste in same trolleys as sterile equipment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12403)
- [HES Ltd now in liquidation](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12399)
- [Hospital porters injured handling clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12200)
- [Recycling with sponsorship](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2923) - The NHS wastes money with a passion but is chronically short of resources. Healthcare waste management reflects this, worsening an already difficult situation.
- [Confidential paper disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2633) - Bending of regulations is too often seen as a help to clients, but failure to manage confidential paper waste properly can and will lead to a fine
- [Take out your own waste, GPs told](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1479) - Concern of clinical waste security sits uneasily against broken safety requirements and flouting of waste policies. Where are the regulators?
- [London riots](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2152) - What is the link between the recent London riots and clinical waste? One GP surgery reports its waste bin stolen during the riots - why was it accessible?
- [GPs stripped of trade waste cash](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3941)
- [Clinical waste build-up at hospitals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12382)
- [Shambolic’ treatment after needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9088) - A cleaner pricked by a dirty needle was left horrified after being denied treatment by three separate health centres
- [Elastec portable incinerators](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12373)
- [NHS bids to cut ‘complex’ waste procurement](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12370)
- ['No deal' EU exit: Government reminder to waste industry](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12366)
- [Needlestick insurance?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6891)
- [Placentae used to generate clean energy in Filipino hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6350)
- [US medical 'trash' saving lives abroad](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2646) - There are thousands of tons of medical supplies thrown away every day that are unused or clearly reusable
- [InterCare medical aid for Africa](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1333) - InterCare collect surplus medicines, medical and surgical equipment items and dressings of all kind for distrubution to hospitals in rural sub-Saharan Africa
- [Diversion of medical waste items to re-use](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2055) - The composition of mixed clinical waste is highly variable and separation of individual items for re-use is not practicable without source separation.
- [Charges over discarded needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=331)
- [Council pays thousands in compensation for staff needlestick injuries](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8494) - Dublin City Council paid out some €8.32 million last year in staff and public injury claims.
- [ICRC Clinical waste management guide](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3104) - ICRC have done an excellent job in the creation of their medical (clinical) waste management guide, as they do in all aspects of their work
- [Re-use of needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2685) - A robust and effective disposal infrastructure operating with adequate regulatory oversight at every stage is essential to prevent re-use of syringes and needles
- [Solar autoclave development](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6125)
- [Objections to waste facilities](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1396) - Objections to waste facilities include noise, traffic, air, land & water pollution, fear of blood & needles, concern of drug residues, property prices.....
- [Assessing environmental compliance](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1015) - New tools enable SMEs to assess environmental. Available from NetRegs these tools and are highly recommended
- [Using the waste management hierarchy](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1392) - Regulatory failures to apply the waste hierarcy stifles R&D and investment that can deliver advances in waste management and resource recovery
- [Parents warned after primary school needle find](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6459)
- [Prison needle exchange scheme?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2410) - There is no doubt that in US and UK prisons, needles are a widespread problem and major health risk. The risk of sharps injury and seroconversion is high
- [Drug-resistant bacteria isolated from UK wastewater treatment facilities](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12331)
- [Drug needle problems grow at Scottish tourist hotspot](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6771)
- [SRCL - waste management poster resources](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8727) - Many waste management companies provide downloadable resources invaluable in the support of staff training and improve standards in waste management.
- [Who to tell?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2329)
- [Speechless](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5163)
- [Needlestick, the Movie](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4524)
- [Staff take Shotts waste firm HES to court over unpaid wages](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12301)
- [Mystery of the baby's leg dumped at a Welsh rubbish tip](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12296)
- [Growing veggies with hospital waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12294)
- [Medisort fire - Littlehampton](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12288)
- [Dumpster kids earn 50p per kilo scavenging hospital waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3897)
- [Clinical waste bins left outside Crosshouse Hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12279)
- [Pensioners "plagued by vermin from abandoned HES Ltd plant"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12277)
- [NHS fears 30 tonnes of clinical waste may be missing](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12275)
- [Call for extra funds for waste management issues](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12271)
- [Veolia gets permit for Hertfordshire EfW plant](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12269)
- [Posters Promoting Safe Practice - Needlesticks, Spillages](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9520) - Great posters about topics including sharps bin use, needlestick protocol, spill management etc available for download from Worcestershire Health Services NHS.
- [Stericycle losing business?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12261)
- [Needle crime - US woman fights back!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8490) - Needle crime is on the increase. In the US, a woman threatened with a needle decides to - fight back!
- [There's a lot of them about!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6135)
- [Gloves for hospital porters](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12253)
- [Unsafe waste handling in hospitals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12245)
- [Disposal of couch rolls](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=929) - Couch roll paper is used in vast amounts by podiatrists, physios, in GP & outpatient clinics, X-ray etc. Unless heavily contaminated, this is not clinical waste
- [Sharps bins installed at Occupy London for used hypodermic needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2618)
- [Tradebe shoot themselves in the foot as they step in over HES problems](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12208)
- [NHS waste from north Scotland sent to Shetland for incineration](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12206)
- [Shock! Horror! New pictures 'lay bare scale of NHS body parts scandal'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12195)
- [MSP claims Westminster official ‘set out to ruin hospital waste firm’](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12192)
- [Waste Porter - Essex](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12189)
- [Used needles 'overflowing onto floor' in public toilet](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12183)
- [Disreputable or helpful?  You decide](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12155)
- [But isn't that their job?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12161)
- [HES: Staff in tears over redundancy](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12151)
- [Clinical Waste Pedal Bins - are they a fire hazard?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12141)
- [No pay for HES Ltd staff](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12139)
- [The Healthcare Waste Summit 2013](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5429)
- [NHS England claims Stericycle overcharged it over last 6 years](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12133)
- [Leicester clinical waste driver assaulted](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11280)
- [Lab safety concerns - do they put you at risk?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11290)
- [New machine cleans and recycles used syringes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11345)
- [Man died 20 years after prick from infected needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11462)
- [Fenland Council set to operate a free sharps boxes collection service](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12108)
- [Catalogue of injuries for NHS Tayside staff](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12105)
- [Southmead Hospital surgical plastic waste initiative](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12101)
- [3 year old girl suffers sharps injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=927) - A 3-year-old gilr pricked her finger in a container of used flu vaccine syringes at a pharmacy
- [Detroit warehouse fire engulfs clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6534)
- [Medical waste management crucial to a liveable city](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11486)
- [SRCL fails in tender case and "hurt NHS"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11489)
- [Veolia to trial electric bin lorries powered by energy-from-waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11516)
- [Mum must pay to dispose of her 12-year-old's diabetic needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11484)
- [Officials admit clinical waste incineration shortage](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11956)
- [Diabetic blames ditching of collections for clinical waste dumping](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12018)
- [NHS pays compensation to 1,200 staff after needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12002)
- [PHS service complaint](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12032)
- [Anger at plan for medical waste plant in Newhaven](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12064)
- [Ten North-East health trusts hit by halt in clinical waste collections](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12076)
- [Expansion for Welshpool clinical waste incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11268)
- [Major incident as hospital waste collections halted](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12057)
- [Military continues use of burn pits in Iraq](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9506)
- [Innovative RFID use](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2111) - RFID devices are surely the future direction for waste efficient management
- [Innovations in waste sacks #2?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8193) - The innovative Nisus Medical Longostand waste system uses Longopac ‘endless bag’ technology. Intended for healthcare waste packaging, will it be successful?
- [Waste sector injury rate higher that reported](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4639)
- [Newhaven medical waste plant](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12035)
- [Concerns raised over clinical waste storage at Menston ambulance station](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12028)
- [Anatomy of a clinical waste sector in turmoil](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12022)
- [Aid agency fined for waste 'errors'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12015)
- [Dundee addict unconscious, trousers down and holding a needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8900) - At its lowest, IV drug abuse presents dangers for members of the public, for emergency services staff, and for those who must clean up drug litter and blood
- [HES Ltd seeking £15m over NHS contract terminations](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=12007)
- [HES Ltd may sue Government](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11995)
- [Clinical waste sacks found in Swindon street](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11987)
- [HES Ltd claims and counterclaims - what does the evidence look like?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11979)
- [HES 'scandal' - what next?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11974)
- [First clinical waste treatment facility for Tibet](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6381)
- [What is in your sharps bin?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11961)
- [Challenges with sharps safety in the home and community - US survery](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5419)
- [Discarded needles won't "jump out and bite you"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11448)
- [Cuts in Carmarthenshire services?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11304)
- [Fly-tipper dumps waste at Derby Family Medical Centre](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11260)
- [Clinical waste management in the NHS](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11094)
- [Clinical waste management in the NHS](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11250)
- [Design students rethink plastic for degree show](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10890) - Students of Central Saint Martins have worked with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to bring about a design project to tackle the future of the plastics economy
- [Winchfield pet crematorium celebrates 25 years](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11056)
- [Adelaide mum petitions for secure sharps bin improvement](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11066)
- [City doctor invents all-in-one system for liquid med waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10863) - A low-cost solution could get rid of liquid bio-medical waste in Indian hospitals. The automated portable effluent treatment system (APETS) treats liquid waste
- [4-year-old has HIV test after sharps injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10780) - A 4-year old has had an HIV test and Mum now has an anxious 3-6 month wait for clearance after stepping on and being struck by a discarded needle in Bristol.
- [Every discarded needle reported in Bristol since 2015](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10783) - Charity Transform has released a map showing needles reported across the city and there are a few surprising hotspots.
- [Military tissue waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3930)
- [Pakistan clinical waste failures](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5893)
- [Needle find during annual beach clean-up](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10764) - Horrified volunteers cleaning up Booterstown Reserve had a lucky escape at the weekend when they came across a used syringe at the south Dublin beauty spot
- [Needles found at illegal tattoo studio](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8875) - Contaminated needles and clinical waste have been found at an illegal tattoo studio in Devon. The council have successfully closed the illegal enterprise
- [Welsh company pioneers clinical waste recycling process](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10505) - Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group develops a new clinical waste recycling process to "transform" clinical wastes treatment and create a new revenue stream
- [Times of India reports clinical waste "recycling"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10590) - In Kolkata, biomedical and hazardous waste is regularly recycled and sold in open markets despite specific rules for its segregation, transportation and dumping
- [Clinical Waste Depot Plant Manager, Kent](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10592) - Clinical Waste Depot Plant Manager with excellent management and team leadership skills required by a Global Company based in Larkfield, Aylesford, Kent.
- [Clinical waste kept near play equipment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10743) - Clinical waste kept near play equipment - inspectors rule dentist does "not meet standards
- [Bio-bin anatomical](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4520)
- [Shop assistant contracts hepatitis B after needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10163)
- [Flagstaff International Relief Effort: preventing Hepatitis C infection in Mongolia](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10083) - Flagstaff International Relief Effort are doing great work with Hepatitis C virus infection in Mongolia, ensuring sharps safety to prevent infection
- [Metals residues in soils affected by burnt hospital wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5812)
- [Size matters](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9635) - Drug costs and waste-related expenditure escalate when there is a mismatch between drug vial size and typical administered dosage
- [Harringay/Veolia Clinical Waste Collection](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9706) - A Harringay resident trying hard to dispose of a small sharps bin is trapped in a cycle of communication failure and inertia by GP, Council and Veolia
- [China recycling used syringes and other clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9984) - In China, disposable eating utensils, plastic wrap, bags, and synthetic fibres used in clothing can be produced from recycled plastic clinical wastes materials
- [Hepatitis B virus infection among medical waste handlers in Addis Ababa](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2547)
- [Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B and C viruses among medical waste handlers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3091) - Exposure and infection in clinical waste handlers is high in Ethiopia. In the UK, we expect the rate to be far lower though a lack of data makes this uncertain
- [What can you do with an amputated limb?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9524) - The BBC reports the case of a man wanting to donate his amputated leg then held a guess-the-weight competition after his limb was rejected for research
- [Cancer hospital effluents blamed for killing Sri Lankan villagers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2792) - About 96 deaths occurred in teh Godigamuwa area of Maharagama, where a cancer hospital waste dump was situated. Radioactive contaminants in waste are blamed
- [IV Drug addiction - one approach to needle disposal?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8907) - There are several ways to dispose of a used hypodermic needle, especially after being used to administer a DIY injection of drugs
- [More poo power?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8555) - Money is power, never more so when sifting through poo! Faeces is a difficult commodity - smelly, heavy, unpleasant to handle - and full of gold?
- [Is black the new orange?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8463) - Most clinical waste will be placed into an orange sack, with some in yellow or perhaps a Tiger bag. But surely not black?
- [Belfast public toilet needle disposal bins installed](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8430) - Secure sharps bins to allow injecting drug users to safely dispose of needle and syringes have been installed in five public toilets in Belfast city centre
- [Metal detector systems identify needles in hospital laundry](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8392) - US researchers are developing metal detector systems for hospital laundry systems in order to catch safely 'lost' equipment items and needles
- [CSI Bangor to investigate dumped needles?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8368) - A Bangor housing association could turn to forensic science to help catch residents dumping used drug needles on a city estate. Really?
- [Ebola needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8352) - Two British healthcare team members are repatriated from Sierra Leone having suffered sharps or needlestick incidents while caring for patients in the Ebola outbreak there
- [40 months jail for attack](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8328) - A thief gets 4 years after grappling with a supermarket security guard in Middlesbrough. The guard suffered a needlestick and now waits anxiously blood results
- [Mother's anguish after miscarriage 'waste disposal'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8058) - A mother has spoken of her anguish after learning her baby daughter's body was incinerated with clinical waste at a Shropshire hospital in the 1990s
- [CQC brand Cerne Abbas Care Home 'inadequate' - waste carts unlocked](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8158) - Unlocked healthcare waste carts were found at a nursing home branded 'inadequate' by CQC. Regrettably, that is a not uncommon observation
- [UK doctors have 'ethical duty' to prevent waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8031) - Nobody would disagree with the sentiment that UK doctors have and 'ethical duty' to prevent waste. All that is missing is the reality of lean practice and waste minimisation
- [How many?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7940) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum reports needle finds in a diversity of locations: parks, gardens, playgrounds, car parks, alleyways, beaches etc
- [Body dumped in medical waste landfill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=984) - The body of a man, dumped with a load of medical waste, has been found at the Cherry Island landfill, Delaware.
- [Scottish Government prohibits disposal of miscarried foetuses as clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3867)
- [Needle discovery shuts new skate park](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5991)
- [Contaminated needle and syringe found as kids take part in community clean-up nearby](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3382) - With commendable spirit, schools, church groups, Scouts and Guides volunteer their services for community clean-up schemes. They are at risk of sharps injury
- [Clinical (medical) waste in Saskatoon landfill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3464) - Do we apply more rigid regulation on disposal of clinical wastes from community care,or use black bags and go easy when finding these items in landfill
- [Managing incontinence waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1809) - Managing incontinence waste is a vast problem. Great care is required when planning change to services, to predict inadvertent or unexpected knock-on effects
- [Birmingham clinical waste collection problems](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2098) - Clinical waste collection problems sometimes run in a manner that is less than satisfactory, and services operated by Birmingham City Council are no exception.
- [Into the waste bin?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2397) - There is a need for better waste containers and closures. Rigid bins are generally unwelcome; wastes better disposed to a bin find their way instead into a sack
- [Shotts residents delighted after medical incinerator plans rejected by council](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2896)
- [Melting snow reveals discarded needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3262)
- [Community clinical waste problems?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3342)
- [University Hospital Galway fined €10k over waste dumping](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10944) - 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
- [Turkey Introduces New Standards for Medical Waste Control](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10634) - The Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization recently adopted the new Regulation on Control of Medical Waste (the “Medical Waste Regulation”)
- [Waste firm objects to bags after needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10413) - Needlestick or sharps injury is an obvious risk for ALL waste handlers, not only those who might handle clinical wastes.
- [Knowaste to resubmit plans for London nappy plant](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9986) - Hygiene waste specialist Knowaste Ltd is resubmitting its planning application for the UK’s only dedicated nappy recycling facility in Hillingdon, West London
- [Church finds dumped medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3792)
- [Anxious wait after 4-year-old had hypodermic needle in foot](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9509)
- [Mounting medical waste poses health risk in Abu Dhabi](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=182)
- [South Tyneside scaps domiciliary clinical waste collections](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8755) - No doubt predicated by cost, South Tyneside council scraps domiciliary clinical waste collections. Is that safe and compliant, or a unilateral hazardous change
- [Cycle safety](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8541) - Viridor has adapted vehicle to bring cycle safety to its London waste fleet. Are your vehicles cycle-safe?
- [Separating laundry and clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8609) - East Kent Hospitals Trust admits H&S failure as sharps and soft clinical wastes mixed are with laundry at William Harvey in Ashford
- [Free Seminar "Prevention of Sharps Injuries in Healthcare"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8091) - Free Dublin seminar on Prevention of Sharps Injuries in Healthcare. Register by 21 November 2014
- [They've stuffed up: How the hospital lost my mum’s arm](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11394)
- [Clinical waste plan for disused Hanley Swan incinerator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11471)
- [Children and needles - an unhealthy attraction?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10029) - It is depressingly common to find discarded needles and syringes along with other drug paraphernalia in areas accessible to children.
- [Toddler stabbed by needle on Dublin Bus](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9237) - A young girl has been pricked by a heroin-filled needle on a bus in Dublin – in another sickening incident involving drug paraphernalia in the city.
- [No accessible sharps bin at Manchester airport?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8358) - A passenger has highlighted a 'security issue' at Manchester Airport after being unable to find an accessible sharps bin for syringe and needle.
- [Waste from Ebola-exposed patient incinerated at remote location](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8086) - Waste from an Ebola-exposed patient is being incinerated at Fort Detrick, USA. No problem with that, but transport is an avoidable and unnecessary complication
- [Deliberate needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10817) - Children have a magnetic affinity for discarded sharps, often picking them up and stabbing themselves. In China, even the teachers stab the kids!
- [Gangrene energy?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11310)
- [Ottawa considers needle-dispensing vending machines](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10572) - Needle-dispensing vending machines could be installed in Ottawa, to offer clean needles and syringes in this way to reduce drug-related virus transmission
- [Clinical waste and bad weather](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=997) - Local Authorities advise domestic clinical waste producers to leave their waste at the edge of their property, to await delayed collection.
- [Boy pierced by 'syringe tip' after playing with it at beach](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5879)
- [Positive results from needle exchange programme](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6279)
- [Cardiff drug waste woes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10509) - Children are being put at risk by drug users needles strewn around Butetown, Cardiff with residents angry and worried by the increasing number of needles found.
- [British Ebola healthcare worker monitored after Sierra Leone sharps injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8433) - Public Health England says one more UK healthcare worker with possible Ebola contact in Sierra Leone has been transferred to the Royal Free Hospital in London
- [Council refuses to remove drugs waste from private land](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8455) - A land owner has found used needles and other drug taking material on his land. Hits out at Council who refuse to collect the waste
- [Cardiff embankment littered with discarded needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6985)
- [Ebola waste: isn't incineration enough?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8050) - Ebola waste is a huge problem. Ebola virus heat resistance is not great; autoclave, incineration, and pyrolysis each suffice but what about treatment residues?
- [Kids discover waste syringes on Long Beach, NY street](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5557)
- [Drug theft from clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=337) - Drug theft from clinical wastes are not unknown. Syringes, needles and controlled drug residues are common targets though one thief has targetted Fentanyl patches
- [Sterilis device in use](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10937)
- [Improving clinical waste disposal practice](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4455)
- [Needle and syringe used in armed robbery](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6547)
- [Manufacturers work to reduce clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1671) - A medical device manufacturers explore development of sustainable healthcare products, less wasteful packaging, and an increase in plastics for medical use
- ['Sharps' injury is as traumatic as car crash](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5613)
- [Gloves come in pairs. Wear both of them!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3117) - Gloves come in pairs. Wear both of them!
- [NHS unveils plans to cut £300m worth of medicines waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7338) - The NHS has unveiled plans to cut up to £300m worth of medicines waste from its budgets. Don't blame patients; until prescribers do better is this set to fail?
- [Eye of the Needle updated](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8156) - PHE has published an updated version of Eye of the Needle: United Kingdom Surveillance of Significant Occupational Exposures to Bloodborne Viruses in Healthcare Workers
- [Penalty for dumping used needle "grossly inadequate"](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1615) - Dumping used needles generates fear among communities and lowers property values. In every way, it is unacceptable behavior.
- [Reading to stop domestic clinical/sanitary waste collections?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1748) - Reading will stop domestic sanitary waste collections. This may be a change proposed by cash-strapped Councils. Will the regulator act, or turn a blind eye?
- [Baby buried in hospital waste bin](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=620)
- [Clinical waste collection failures in Birmingham](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1036) - Explanations, or excuses, about failure of domestic clinical waste collections through December hint at poor waste management performance in Birmingham
- [Clinical waste bags left in street](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1233) - Clinical waste collections from domestic premises are improving, but many problems still exist
- [Needles halt recycling plant's picking line 869 times](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7329) - More than 2,100 needles were collected last year at an Exeter recycling plant, bringing a recycling plant to a halt 869 times in one year
- [Cork schoolboy, 5, jabbed by needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7305) - The long wait after sharps injury may culminate in debilitating anxiety and post-traumatic stress, irrespective of bloodborne virus infection
- [Boy arrested after 'needle jabs' at Moreton Community School](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7298) - What is it about kids, that they find needles so attractive to touch, pick up, play with, and if the opportunity arises to stick themselves or each other?
- [2-year old stuck by discarded needle](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7018)
- [PHS Wastetech contracts](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7084)
- [Ottawa needle woes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6961)
- [Birmingham needle attacks: Police 'unable to proceed'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6840)
- [Muscle bound sharps users](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6854)
- [Secret NI radioactive waste dumping 'presented no plausible risk'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6857)
- [Family shocked by needle find on beach](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6685)
- [Ireland hospital found in breach of hygiene standards](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6551)
- [Sharps injury on the beach](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6588)
- [Hunt for Birmingham needle attacker](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6601) - Police hunt man who attacked at least 3 women in the Birmingham area using a hypodermic needle as a weapon
- [NICE recommendations for needle risk over beauty treatments](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6436)
- [Were body parts found in Michigan sewer clinical waste?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6449)
- [Horror of boy stuck by needle on Dundee bus](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6542)
- [Young boys suffer sharps injury](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6345)
- [Waste from tattooists](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6290)
- [Cutting medicines waste through prescription control](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6199)
- [HTM 07-01 update now available](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5970)
- [A larger container for sharps disposal?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5977)
- [Bloodborne virus warning over illegal tattooists](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5712)
- [Sanitary/offensive wastes: Poopy power rocks?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5740)
- [Finding a home for unused medical supplies](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5915)
- [Clinical waste facility put on hold](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5609)
- [Pupils play with clinical wastes at Indian dump](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5648)
- [Placenta found by London dog walker](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5564)
- [Blood splashes and blood exposures](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5487)
- [Putting a smile on children's faces](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5382)
- [Removing clinical wastes from abandoned wards and hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4775)
- [But is it art?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4780)
- [Yet more body bits](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4273)
- [Tissue wastes in landfill?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4396)
- [South coast bin men face needles in black sacks](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3860)
- [Spanish hospital waste is found in Santa Catarina](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3532)
- [Needlestick crime](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2927) - Not for the first time, a needlestick has been the key weapon in crime
- [Bed space and waste container designs](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3031) - The area in the immediate surroundings of the patients' bed, and the bed itself, are crucial to safety
- [Difficult wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2908) - Now and again, there are difficult clinical waste items to dispose
- [US hospital saves $100,000 with 'green' practices](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2534) - US Hospital saves $100k with 16% reduction in medical waste. Putting waste into the correct waste stream saves money but savings can be more apparent than real
- [Healthcare waste management - a global perspective](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2352) - A UN investigator says up to a quarter of the world’s waste from hospitals, clinics, labs, blood banks, mortuaries is hazardous and needs better regulation
- [Farming pharmaceuticals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2405) - The use of injectable pharmaceuticals in animal husbandry generates a substantial hazardous waste that is largely unaccounted for
- [Clinical waste management - Hong Kong](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1850) - The Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department web pages provides a comprehensive, unambiguous guide to every aspect of clinical waste management
- [Medical waste closes 8 Long Island beaches](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2283) - Dozens of needles, syringes, pill bottles and other medical wastes washing ashore close 8 Long Island beaches
- [Resomation](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2287) - Resomation, tissue solubilisation in hot KOH solution, is the subject of a PR campaign to secure public acceptance and regulatory approval for disposal of the dead
- [Hi-viz workwear](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2303)
- [Wide variation in clinical waste management practice](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2583) - UN Report on adverse effects of movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes paints picture of grossly inadequate clinical waste management
- [Climate and environmental scientists targeted for fraud](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1162) - Fake emails continue to circulate, inviting the gullible to pay to attend conferences about waste management and environmental topics.
- [Cremation - just another tissue incinerator?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1222) - Energy recovery from cremation is a logical and environmentally sound proposal, but there is a conceptual - or is it emotional - barrier to this.
- [8 months for pet crematorium scam](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1231) - A woman who ran a pet crematorium in Derbyshire has been jailed for eight months for dumping the bodies of her customers' pets in a field.
- [Cremator heat capture scheme approved](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1249) - Substantial cash savings and reduced carbon outputs justify heat recovery from cremation. It's the way to go!
- [Peak Pet Cremations](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2240) - Extreme distress was caused by the criminal failures of Peak Pet Cremations to those who had relied on them for the dignified disposal of their pets
- [HES Ltd, Clinical Waste Update: Parliamentary written statement](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11549)
- [SRCL Limited v Competition Commission](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3524)
- [Sponsored sharps bins?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5496)
- [Dubious professional regulation by NMC?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=9596) - A Northwick Park Hospital nurse placed a disposable plastic apron in a general waste instead of a clinical waste container - given conditions of practice order
- [Are the current protocols on medical waste disposal sufficient to protect public health](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6977)
- [University installs sharps bins in toilets](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1822) - As the University of Iowa installs sharps bins in restrooms it may be criticised for its drug problem but deserves praised for its approach to sharps safety
- [Child stuck by needle at playground](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6545)
- [Mother Earth fails to protect](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1257)
- [Trinidad clinical waste woes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5887)
- [Dumping of clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3061) - After news about the alleged dumping of clinical wastes in the River Yare in Norfolk, there is news of a much more serious incident in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
- [Service Driver - Initial Medical (Bristol)](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10845) - A Service Driver is required in the Bristol area, for clinical waste collections at doctors, dentists and nursing homes etc
- [Fenland to impose charges to patients for domestic sharps collections](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11504)
- [Needlestick at Brisbane School sparks parents' fear of HIV risk](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7157)
- [Neil John Spooner fine for enviro-crime](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6434)
- [Recycled hospital waste to helpt 'desperate' children in Africa](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11318)
- [Demonstration to demand safe disposal of infectious medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5391)
- [Utah hospital invests in ATT processing](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6574)
- [Clinical Waste is not always what it seems!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11478)
- [How much do sharps injuries cost the NHS?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=10947) - Healthcare workers are regularly faced with sharps' or needlestick injuries (NSI) and the financial implications across the NHS are damning
- [Ebola waste guidance](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8084) - An excellent Guidance Note on packaging and transport of waste from suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola published by The Health Protection Surveillance Centre
- [Thank you Rotary](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8819) - Rotary Clubs in Mongolia and US collaborate to purchase locally made sharps containers made in Mongolia to meet the WHO technical specifications
- [Redistributing unwanted pharmaceuticals](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2683) - Vast quantities of pharmaceuticals are wasted each year, primarily as unwanted trade samples and surplus or date-restricted stocks held by small dispensaries
- [MRSA in water supply](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4563)
- [Nepal workshop/interaction program on Hospital Waste Management](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8606) - Nepal has an active training & regulatory framework intended to ease the country toward an effective clinical/healthcare waste management infrastructure
- [Man allegedly steals dirty needles from hospital](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7944) - After allegedly stealing used needles from a hospital ER, a US man is cited for destruction of property - but weren't they going to be destroyed anyway?
- [Hepatitis C risk from discarded needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5852)
- [It takes all sorts - theft from sharps bin](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7326) - Sharps bins theft can be quite common in some cities but less so now, presumably since illegal drugs are more readily obtainable. But there's always one...
- [Removing pharma waste from the community](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8772) - The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has for years been pushing for community-wide hazardous waste take-back arrangements, organised perhaps by local authorities
- [Operation Medicine Cabinet](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=199)
- [Theft of medical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8530) - It is obvious why sharps bins are stolen from hospitals. Most valuable to addicts are the prefilled but part used syringes of narcotic analgesic
- [Taking your work home](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4265)
- [Bridgeport needle exchange to end](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6219)
- [Ankles in the landfill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4459)
- [Fake doc botches operations, but has eye on safe waste disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2804) - Fake doc botches operations, but has eye on safe waste disposal. Though somewhat misguided, he at least tried to dispose of this waste correctly!
- [A Royal day out?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11402)
- [Van Driver: Clinical Waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11396)
- [Clinical Waste Service Driver](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11363)
- [Reusable sharps bins -  are they spreading gut infections?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8984) - Research data to be presented at an upcoming APIC meeting, shows more Clostridium difficile infections among hospitals using reusable sharps containers
- [Clinical waste - new employment opportunity](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3028)
- [Syringe armed robber arrested](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3513) - Used syringes and needles make an impromptu but quite frightening weapon.
- [More landfill discoveries](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6708)
- [Devon nurse took used syringe from sharps bin - thought it was OK!](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11335)
- [Radioactive clinical waste spill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4402)
- [You can't have it both ways](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5161)
- [Students salvaging waste medical supplies](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1177) - Reducing waste output, re-using or recycling waste items for materials of energy recovery each contribute to sound environmental healthcare services.
- [EA correct and release 'Waste management 2016 in England: data tables'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11270)
- [Oman appoints inspectors to ensure correct disposal of clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6966)
- [Dutch recycling system reduces hospital's waste volumes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8586) - Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, invests €10m in innovative recycling system to reduce the hospital's waste volumes, tax, and transport costs
- [Stericycle fined $72,000 for pharmaceutical waste handling](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8887) - After inspections found repeated violations of federal waste regulations, the Washington Department of Ecology issued a $72,000 fine to Stericycle
- [HSE reveals extent of 2012/13 waste sector injuries](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6578)
- [HSE appoints new head for waste team](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6779)
- [Boots 'to count all waste as recycling'](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3207) - Boots is preparing to classify "all waste collections from its UK outlets as dry mixed recycling". But what about waste pharmaceuticals and related wastes
- [HSE finds potential for improvement by councils](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4486)
- [More prescriptions, more waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2400)
- [Ireland cleans up another illegal dump](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2620) - Lawyers representing Wicklow County Council informed the High Court of the council's intention to begin the clean up of a large illegal dump in West Wicklow
- [Hospital worker makes needlestick compensation claim](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3487) - Sharps safety devices may not reduce disposal-related incidents. Those who throw unsheathed used needles into a waste sack are unlikely to activate a safety device
- [Prescribing data to be published](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1535) - The environmental impact of pharmaceutical waste is a matter of concern
- [CQC inspectors criticise unsafe storage of clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7134)
- [‘Environment & Me’ photo competition](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7089)
- [US hospital highlights recycling with healthcare waste fashion show](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=7070)
- [Police investigate needlestick injuries at Australian school](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6957)
- [York City Council clinical waste failures](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6445)
- [Bizarre needle finds](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6294)
- [Plastic surgery clinic falls foul of regulator](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6173)
- [The new no-sharps sharps?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5996)
- [Scandal of dumped Harley Street clinical waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5625)
- [Recovery of plastics from clinical wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5471)
- [Hurricane Sandy](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=4593)
- ['Syringe pens' crop up again](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2478) - It is some time since the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum raised concerns about novelty syringe pens as toys for kids and promotional gifts for the waste sector
- [Complaints in Camden....again](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3070) - With sites such as FixMyStreet, the community is now able to document such waste management failures far more easily than ever before
- [But is it art?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3180) - It is reported that Pete Doherty has used his own blood for artworks at an exhibition.
- [Plastic surgeon 'banks' on fat](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2365) - US surgeon proposed use of fat removed during liposuction as a biofuel source
- [Pharmaceuticals in drinking water](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2323) - The US Government Accountability Office Report "Environmental Health: Action Needed to Sustain Agencies' Collaboration on Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water"
- [A Word Search of Waste](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2184) - An earlier Clinical Waste Discussion Forum newsletter included a popular Word Search of Waste that so, after several requests and reminders, we created another
- [Medical Waste Institute versus Environmental Protection Agency](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2029) - Washington DC Court of Appeals rules in favor of EPA for standards of performance for new and future medical and hospital incinerators of infectious waste
- [Clinical waste found on UK beach - Liverpool](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2061) - Murcury waste and clinical waste containers have been found floating on the incoming tide in Liverpool.
- [Needlestick injury cases settled using PPE Regulations](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=8897) - Are your emploees properly protected against sharps injury to their hands or legs? Do they have appropriate PPE, training and supervision?
- [Homeopathic 'medicine' disposal](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1304) - Just how do you dispose of a homeopathic 'medicine' that has been diluted so much it does not contain one single molecule of the purported active substance?
- [Will safety sharps eliminate disposal-related sharps injury?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1964) - Us of sharps safety devices in UK has hardly begun. Even when implementation becomes widespread, waste handlers should not expect reduction in sharps injury
- [Resomation - alkaline hydrolysis of tissue wastes](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1002) - Resomation may have a place in tissue wastes disposal from healthcare (mortuaries, labs, surgery, placentae) and of animal carcasses, road kills etc.
- [SEPA (Pakistan) decide on flexible approach](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=901) - Regulation in waste management is clearly important but should avoid the imposition of rules that are not fully evidence-based
- [Needles discarded into recycling bins](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1836) - Even a single discarded needle turning up in a recycling bin or found on a picking line can bring things to a shuddering halt
- [Plotting the distribution of needle finds](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=6298)
- [Another child needlestick](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=617) - Once again, a child has suffered a sharps or needlestick injury while playing in a park. Police blame users, but many agencies must work to reduce the risks.
- [Safety fears over £40 fee to have used needles removed | Stockport Express - menmedia.co.uk](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2978) - Stockport will charge £40 charge to collect needles from residential property. Authorities must not duck safe and effective management of drug litter.
- [Holy waste, or clinical?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=263) - Dumping clinical wastes at synagogue
- [High prevalence of HIV, Hep B, Hep C in IV drug users](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=2041) - For those handling discarded sharps and drug paraphernalia, the chance of the needle user being Hep B positive is around 22% and for Hep C about 50%
- [Clinical waste disposal in India - how bad can they get #2](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11119)
- [Clinical waste disposal in India - how bad can they get?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11116)
- [Clinical waste information  - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11114)
- [Police search bags of hospital waste - Dundee](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11112)
- [Area Sales Executive - South Yorkshire](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11100)
- [Remains of 9/11 victims went to landfill](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=3169) - Remains of some victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US were taken to a landfill site, a Pentagon report has found
- [Crematorium supports environment](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=1189) - Many of us, one day, will make our way to the crematorium but on that final journey will we consider our final carbon footprint?
- [Shooting up: A warning for waste handlers](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11091)
- [Tackling pollution from pharmaceutical factories](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11086)
- [what's happening to all of the ‘vet meds’?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11083)
- [Is your soap dispenser RACIST?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11078)
- [Regulators’ Code and the Environment Agency](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11073)
- [Brighton - more children injured by used needles](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=11064)
- [Sharps injury - how much compensation?](https://www.ianblenkharn.com/?p=5631)
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