waste management

Clinical waste sack lost in undergrowth

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

Discarded sharps

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 […]

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 […]