CHANDIGARH: A task of unclogging drains belched out hundreds of used syringes at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, on Saturday, indicating that something was wrong in the disposal […]
The Health Protection Agency have released a new Public Health England report, “Shooting Up, the annual report on infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom, has […]
A record number of farmers – 525 in total – travelled to Listowel, Co. Kerry, with their hazardous waste last Saturday (November 4). Speaking to AgriLand, the EPA’s Shane Colgan stated […]
A video that shows an automatic bathroom soap dispenser failing to detect the hand of a dark-skinned man has gone viral and raised questions about racism in technology, as well […]
A mother whose daughter was cut by a used syringe when she put her hand on an open sharps deposit box says children remain at risk of contracting deadly diseases […]
Police are continuing their probe into death of Pamela after a fall at Dundee flats block. The death of a woman is still being treated as unexplained a week after she was […]
A 14-year-old boy has been charged after two children were pricked by a used syringe in the delicatessen section of a supermarket. Two children, including an infant boy, were pricked […]
Healthcare workers are regularly faced with needlestick injuries (NSI) and while it might not be a standout issue, the financial implications across the NHS are damning. According to the NHS […]
A medical waste company, Euroteam, has been caught on camera dumping untreated dangerous hospital waste on a river bank in the Tirana outskirts, following an investigation by a television show. […]
A needle that automatically caps itself after use has attracted interest from manufacturers to mass-produce them from less than NT$3 per unit. The medical device that automatically caps needles after use, […]
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. In December last year, Environmental Protection […]
In April, police found blood-stained needles and infusion bags littering the grounds of an unlicensed recycling workshop in Yangliu village, Hunan province, China. At least some of the 140 tons of […]
Belfast residents have become concerned over the increase in needles and drug paraphernalia being found in public places across the city. Not unusual, since most towns and cities face similar […]
A San Francisco Bay Area school district advised the families of 14 elementary school students to take their children to doctors after another student pricked them with a needle, a […]
Children seem to have a magnetic affinity for discarded sharps, picking them up and stabbing themselves, or standing on them to the distress of themselves and their family. In China […]
A lorry carrying clinical waste overturned and ended up inches from edge of motorway bridge. The heavy goods vehicle fell on its side on the roundabout overhanging the motorway at […]
An environmental disaster was in the making in Zanzibar, thanks God that it was discovered just in time though damage had already been done. The major concern remains what if […]
Charity Transform has released a map showing needles reported across the city and there are a few surprising hotspots. http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/map-shows-every-discarded-needle-44354 Inevitably, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and […]
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 […]
Horrified volunteers cleaning up Booterstown Reserve had a lucky escape at the weekend when one of them came across a used syringe at the south Dublin beauty spot. The dirty […]
More than 20,000 improperly discarded hypodermic needles retrieved in Boston in one year. That’s a statistic that nobody would wish to have. The City of Boston Mobile Sharps team picked […]
Bodmin will soon see sharps disposal bins installed in public toilets across the town, in what the council says is a response to the increase in the number of used […]
Who screens their outgoing and incoming healthcare wastes for radioactive contamination? Now and again, some alarm activations will arise, not perhaps from inappropriate disposal of some radioactive source or lab […]
An NHS Trust has been invited to take part in the Health and Safety Executive’s review of the sharps regulations, after it became one of four trusts out of 40 […]
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork has called for the removal of a specialised bin that was installed in the city for drug users to dispose of needles. Two heavy-duty containers […]
Memorable as the opening line of The Kinks classic Waterloo Sunset, “Dirty Old River” seems as true as ever. Now, London volunteers find 1,000 dirty needles a year in a […]
Guernsey’s Health and Social Care department has been fined £10,000, after clinical waste was sent to an island recycling plant. A blood analysis machine was found at the site in […]
KOLKATA: Biomedical and hazardous waste is regularly being recycled and sold in open market despite there being specific rules for its segregation, transportation and dumping. The blatant practice was confirmed […]
A series of needlestick injuries associated with needle microdermabrasion are being investigated by Public Health England (PHE). Needle microdermabrasion is a cosmetic procedure that, in recent years, has become […]
When is clinical waste not clinical waste? The answer, it seems, depends on what the Local Authority want in order to bolster their argument. Perhaps this is a position that […]