NHS managers ordered to consider environmental impact
It is reported in today’s Guardian that NHS managers have been “ordered” to consider the environmental impact of their decisions.
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Anti-abortionists campaign against clinical waste incinerator
The US anti-abortionist lobby has proved itself to be vociferous, persistent and at times violent and murderous.
Students salvaging waste medical supplies
It is inevitable that in healthcare many expensive supplies are opened and unpacked for use but never actually used. These items are then discarded as clinical waste, though they need […]
Plastics recovered from clinical wastes
Hard plastics and non-woven polypropylene comprise anything up to 30% by weight of most UK clinical wastes. Much of that might be recovered for re-use, generally as low value mixed […]
Rules on domestic pharma disposal don’t work
A law banning household disposal of medications has been largely ignored, a survey finds. Research indicates that trace amounts of flushed drugs end up in human drinking water and the residents […]
Clinical waste treatment facility opens in Sharjah
Shaikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, inaugurated a medical waste treatment facility in Al Sajja area of Sharjah.
Clinical waste management – a target for protesters?
Clinical waste management companies frequently see themselves as potential targets for protesters. Resistance to planning and licensing applications, and subsequently a stream of complaints about, well, about just about everything.
US medical waste market to reach US$3.2b by 2015
The US medical waste management market to reach US$3.2 billion by 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Clinical waste and bad weather
The Telegraph today has a round-up of the responses of various Local Authorities to domestic collections while the bad weather continues, or perhaps after the bad weather has eased considerably […]
Clinical waste left in decommissioned hospitals
“About a month ago, hazmat crews were called to Monsour Medical Center in Jeannette, Pennsylvania because of medical waste issues.
New sharps disposal law in Minnesota
In a perhaps bizarre legal move, manufacturers of sharps and pharmaceutical companies that make drugs used in the sharps in the state of Minnesota have until July 1, 2011, to share required […]
Hospital Waste Management Practices and Environmental Problems
Hospital Waste Management Practices and Environmental Problems Manel HERATH
SEPA (Pakistan) decide on flexible approach
“After failing to evolve consensus on the most suitable technology for disposal of hospital waste, the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has decided to allow health facilities to choose between […]
Nororvirus risk for waste handlers
Since the beginning of November 2010, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has recorded 43 outbreaks of norovirus infection in hospitals. Of these, 39 have led to ward closures.
Demolizer II
News of the Demolizer® II, a desktop waste sterilizer based on dry heat sterilization in a sealed collecton box, combined with plastic encapsulation of sharps, suggests that sales are high […]
Vehicle accidents
A truck carrying medical waste rolled over on Route 4 in Torrington at Pothier Road, Connecticut, on Friday 10 December.
Nurses on ‘cleanup mission’?
While the environmental pressure group Health Care Without Harm is supporting a group of US nurses to improve source segregation to minimise ‘red bag’ or clinical waste volumes, some tough […]
Dangerous medical waste factory to move
“The Jeddah Mayoralty has approved the relocation of a Medical Materials Recycling Factory located in eastern Jeddah to a new Industrial Waste Factory in Bahra Area. The factory has been […]
Deadly trade in medical waste
“Police suspect discarded biomedical material could be finding its way into city hospitals to be reused; say possibility of doctors being involved in racket cannot be ruled out.