Environmental Officer – Hazardous & medical waste
A well respected waste management company with a particular specialism in hazardous and medical waste management, is currently looking for an individual to take a lead on environmental issues for […]
A well respected waste management company with a particular specialism in hazardous and medical waste management, is currently looking for an individual to take a lead on environmental issues for […]
Collecting spilled or misplaced clinical wastes that may arise somewhere between producer and waste management contractor – perhaps that stray yellow or orange sack sitting on the highway forelornely awaiting collection, the bag blown […]
In what must be the most bizarre fee structure the government-stipulated waste management company Wekaya, operating in the emirate of Sharjar, has announced a new approach to charges for clinical […]
The Center of Waste Management, Abu Dhabi, has announced the official opening of four facilities in Al Ain, including: Clinical Waste Incinerator Fallen Stock Incinerator Sanitary Landfill Crushing Plant Facility Last […]
Compared with the rest of the world, we are fortunate in the UK to have our National Health Service with its world-renowned accessibility, free at the point of care, its […]
HTM 07-01 recommends extensive segregation of waste and in their turn the Environment Agency expects that it will happen and penalises waste management operators if it doesn’t. That regulatory stance […]
A campaign aimed at reducing an estimated £44 million wasted on medicines across Scotland every year has been launched today by four Local Health Boards in the North of Scotland, […]
On the 18 and 19th of May 2011 the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa will hosts its 2nd Biennial Health Care Waste Summit and Expo 2011 in Johannesburg, […]
GP magazine has used FOI requests to confirm that of two thirds of Primary Care Trusts, 31% were paying for patients to use the highly-diluted homeopathic remedies despite evidence that these have no […]
Visiting today a highly regarded NHS Imaging (Radiology) Department – perhaps the biggest in London – I was able to see almost every room and treatment bay ranging from a wide […]
I have been asked for views on clinical waste pre-acceptance criteria, and the various layers of EA guidance – it is only guidance and not law, and if a better […]
“Dr George Mukhari hospital in Ga-Rankuwa resembles the set of a cheap horror movie. Monkeys stealing food out of patients hands, stray cats eating medical waste that has been tossed […]
The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has discussed on many occasions the disposal of sharps using a postal return service (see Archive files). Last updated: Sunday, August 8, 2021
On the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum, we have discussed previously the use of open-air burn pits by the US Army operating in Iraq and Afghanistan (see Archive files). Last updated: […]
Further detail is available now concerning ‘failure’ of the controversial city landfill at Waimanalo Gulch. Last updated: Sunday, October 23, 2022
A facility that purports to help the environment by recycling could really be hurting it. The US Environmental Protection Agency has a ‘laundry list’ of concerns with the Mother Earth Recycling Center […]
Rwanda speaks poverty and strife and healthcare provision in this war-torn country must be, at best, minimal. However, there is good news for many Rwandans on the opening or the […]
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently published a revised document, Clinical Laboratory Waste Management; Approved Guideline – Third Edition (GP05-A3), which was written for use by laboratory managers and […]
The disposal of veterinary sharps is a complex but somewhat overlooked matter. Sharps generated by veterinary staff are rather straightforward and all vets should have access to sharps boxes and […]
There is widespread misconception that sharps or needlestick infections are associated only with the bloodborne virus Hepatitis B and HIV, and that since no such infections have been recorded among waste […]
Reed Specialist have an advertisement today for a Birmingham, West Midlands region appointment as Sales Manager -Clinical Waste. Last updated: Friday, February 10, 2017
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever is a particularly nasty viral infection commonly transmitted to man by ticks. It has a sudden onset with high fever, chills, malaise, diffuse aches, photophobia, irritability and […]
Birmingham Mail reports residents concerns about a pile of around 30 clinical waste bags – they say yellow but in the picture they look orange, certainly not Tiger bags – on […]
“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. Last updated: Thursday, October […]
There are several legal and paralegal firms in the UK now getting wise to the high rate of sharps injury to healthcare professionals and others. They offer low-cost or no-win […]
It is reported in today’s Guardian that NHS managers have been “ordered” to consider the environmental impact of their decisions. Last updated: Sunday, April 12, 2020
The BioBin by TerraCyclic is “the only sanitary bin that can be serviced by yourself. The unique and patented product has a cartridge system where it is as simple as […]
I am astonished to find an [apparently] UK website offering balers for the compaction of clinical wastes! http://www.ukwastesolutions.info/ offer balers for clinical wastes from dentists, chiropadists [sic], veterinary surgeries, medical centres and […]
Bold statements from Honolulu that medical waste washed out of a defective coastal landfill site to contaminate the ocean, now washing up on shore, presents no risk of infection. Last […]
The US anti-abortionist lobby has proved itself to be vociferous, persistent and at times violent and murderous. Last updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2023