Size matters
The pharmaceutical industry needs to rethink its approach to packaging cancer drugs into a one-size vial to avoid drug wastage and save over $1.7 billion (bn) in 2016, a new […]
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Waste management firm goes green, creates 50 jobs
Herald Scotland reports that a Lanarkshire clinical waste management company has created 50 new jobs following a £10m investment in energy efficiency and recycling. Healthcare Environmental Group, the largest independent […]
Business Development Executive – Clinical Waste
Business Development Executive – Clinical Waste Basic Salary: £28000.00 – £30000 per annum + £10k+ uncapped bonus Location: UK, Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Job type: Permanent Contact: […]
Territory Manager – Clinical Waste (Northern England)
The Opportunity: The market leader for Clinical Waste Management in the UK. Join this non-corporate company and enjoy huge scope / prospects for development. Your consultative approach to medical sales will […]
Transforming medical waste into plastic lumber
Somerville, MA-based Triumvirate Environmental is turning medical and pharmaceutical waste into plastic lumber called “BestPlus.” According to Plastics News, the hazardous and medical waste management company acquired two companies in 2014: Medical Waste […]
CIWM Management of Healthcare Wastes meeting
The London & Southern Counties Centre is pleased to give notice of an Open Meeting to be held in association with the National Health Service in the lecture theatre at […]
Excessive GP prescribing
Excess GP prescribing is almost certainly responsible for massive wastage of NHS funds, increasing antibiotic resistance, and the vast quantities of unwanted pharmaceuticals stored at home, eventually to find their […]
Trainee Sales Rep – Clinical Waste
Trainee Sales Rep – Clinical Knowl Hill, Berkshire (office/field based, covering Knowl Hill, Reading and the surrounding area) £Competitive Plus Company Car Are you target-focused, driven and highly motivated? Looking […]
Trainee Field Sales Executive (Clinical Waste)
Trainee Field Sales Executive (Clinical Waste) Benson, Wallingford (OX10), OX106LX £22,000 per annum + Company car Job Purpose Reporting to the Commercial Manager, it will be the responsibility […]
Steroid abuse continues to grow
Steroid abuse and the risk of infection through drug vial and needle sharing continues to grow. Our reference to this, and the increasing number of young male gym users and […]
Hospital Waste Manager-London – £35,000 per annum
Hospital Waste Manager-London – £35,000 per annum Job type: Permanent, full-time London, South East England Reference: 27811393 Contact Hamilton Mayday We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic, experienced candidate who […]
Pharmacies to take over bulk of annual flu vaccinations
The new national pharmacy flu immunisation scheme could see pharmacists paid more than GPs to administer the vaccinations, leading to the GPC calling for a review of payments. The pharmacy […]
Three charged with drug offences after council waste depot raid
Three workers have been charged with drug offences after police raided the waste management depot at West Lothian Council. Officers carried out the raids after being tipped off employees were […]
Energy From Waste Team Leader – Clinical Waste
Energy From Waste Team Leader – Clinical Waste, Tyseley, Birmingham Location: Tyseley, West Midlands Company: Veolia Salary c£30,000 Veolia’s Energy Recovery Facilities utilise world-class technology to safely transform residual waste […]
Fined for dumping clinical (medicines) waste
UK ‘man with a van’ is fined for dumping household refuse and unwanted prescription drugs. A man who dumped a significant stash of prescription medicines on a country lane after […]
International shipments of untreated clinical wastes
There are many small island and otherwise isolated communities producing clinical wastes that must be shipped long distances and perhaps across national borders in order to reach a satisfactory treatment […]
Stericycle fined $72,000 for pharmaceutical waste handling
Medical waste company accepted and transported mixed hazardous and biomedical waste OLYMPIA – After inspections found repeated violations of federal waste regulations, the Washington Department of Ecology issued a $72,000 […]
Healthcare Wastes – a new reference work
Just published: Healthcare Wastes Blenkharn JI In, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier Inc, 2015. 25pp http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09488-4 Available only from Elsevier Last updated: Monday, July 8, 2019
Vast cost of medicines waste in north Norfolk – who is to blame?
Hundreds of thousands of pounds are wasted in north Norfolk due to medicine wastage. Said to be due to patients’ stockpiling medicines this could not be further from the truth. […]
Removing pharma waste from the community
On the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum we have for some years now been pushing for community-wide hazardous waste take-back arrangements, organised perhaps by local authorities who might make available better […]
Used syringe full of liquid left on top of Peppa Pig book in hospital toy box
A woman was horrified to find a used syringe full of liquid lying on top of a Peppa Pig book in a hospital toy box. Woman, 22, found a used […]
Waste prescription drugs – still blaming patients?
Patients have been asked to help cut medicines waste, which costs Bristol £3.5 million a year. Patients and healthcare professionals in Bristol are being asked to help stop medicines going […]
Dutch recycling system reduces hospital’s waste volumes
The Erasmus Medical Center in the Dutch city of Rotterdam is investing Euro 10 million in an innovative recycling system to reduce the hospital’s waste volumes and thereby minimise pollution […]
Theft of medical waste
“A man who authorities think dumped vials of blood and used syringes into the Arkansas River was charged Friday in connection with the theft of medical waste from a Tulsa […]
Call for European harmonisation of waste pharmaceuticals
EU rules for waste medicines should be harmonised and strengthened, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has claimed, after a survey of six member states revealed a wide discrepancy in collection […]
HCWH global inventory of healthcare waste management technology suppliers
HCWH Releases New Global Inventory of Healthcare Waste Management Technology Suppliers To aid in the procurement of appropriate technologies, Health Care Without Harm first published an inventory of non-incineration healthcare […]
US Appeal Court considers pharma waste take-back ordinance
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of America (PhRMA), Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA), and Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) appeal […]
NHS unveils plans to cut £300m worth of medicines waste
The NHS has unveiled plans to cut up to £300m worth of medicines waste from its budgets. Hurrah. Overprescribing is the problem. Too quick with the pen to write a […]
It takes all sorts – theft from sharps bin
Theft of sharps bins can be quite common in some cities, as we have noted previously on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum, but is less common now than it used […]
High cost of island healthcare waste disposal
Six figure bill for destroying healthcare waste It has recently been reported that it costs NHS Shetland £150,000 a year to ship medical waste south for destruction – enough to pay […]