InterCare medical aid for Africa
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 […]
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Demanding the impossible
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 […]
Homeopathic ‘medicine’ disposal
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 […]
Sharps by post
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
Open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan
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: […]
Clinical waste bags left in street
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 […]
Work-related sharps injury
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 […]
Cremation – just another tissue incinerator?
When human or animal tissues are processed through a high temperature clinical waste incinerator we have no graet concern about options for heat and energy recovery. When those tissues are […]
Continuing HONCode certification for the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum
We are pleased to report that, following independent scrutiny by The Health On The Net (HON) Foundation based in Geneva, this web site and the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has been certified […]
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. Last updated: Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Who takes responsibility for healthcare waste
Who takes responsibility for healthcare waste? There are many answers to this apparently simple question, but few are completely satisfactory. Last updated: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Charges over discarded needle
We have previously reported in the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum the case of a woman charged for throwing away a used hypodermic needle at a fast-food restaurant in Wollongong, New South Wales, which […]
Risk management in waste segregation
Several groups have published on the gains that can be made through more detailed source segregation of wastes. Sadly, the message has generally been overstated by an insistence of a degree […]
Disposal by post
The Clinical Waste Discussion Forum has published previous posts – these can be found in the Forum Archives – discussing the benefits of disposal by post. Last updated: Sunday, June […]
Takeback and disposal of medications in US
San Francisco’s city leaders are poised to pass an ordinance requiring name-brand drug manufacturers to pay for collection and disposal of unused prescription medicines to curb prescription misuse and environmental impacts. […]
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. […]
Clinical waste collection failures in Birmingham
After bad weather and industrial disputes, waste collections in Birminham have suffered. Now clinical waste collection delays are blamed on staffing problems. Last updated: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Resomation – alkaline hydrolysis of tissue wastes
Resomation is in the news again, if only because of a perceived ‘Yuk factor’. Several national papers are reporting that Cambridge City Crematorium is considering trials of alternatives to cremation. […]
Body dumped in medical waste landfill
“Wilmington police were called to the Cherry Island landfill 31 Dec 2010. There among the loads of trash, workers found the body of a man. It appears he had been […]
Never put a needle in a recycling bin!
Recycle for Norfolk have published an interesting news item with this title, emploring poeople to keep used needles out of the recycling system. Last updated: Saturday, April 1, 2017
Winter clinical waste collections
More from the Local Authorities concerning clinical waste collections in this harsh winter weather. West Lancashire Borough Council have announced that from 23 December until at least Tuesday 28 December […]
Disposal of couch rolls
An interesting discussion of Podiatry Forum questions the responsibility for the costs of disposal of clinical waste sacks in a shared consulting room. Though that is not our concern, it […]
Domestic clinical waste collections in bad weather
More on the problems of clinical (and other) waste collections in this difficult wastes, the difficulties faced by collection authorities and the very considerable difficulties this creates for patients. Last […]
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 […]
Post your own message on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum
You can now post your own message on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum. Click here, then follow the link to the Registration page. All registrations and posts are subject to […]
Well done, Somerset
We have been consistently critical of the poor response by Local Authorities to managing drug litter and of clinical wastes from the community. So, for a change, some good news! Last […]
Contract terms for healthcare ancillary staff
Hospital ancillary and support staff may be NHS employees, or increasingly employed by specialist support services companies. This latter, and now very common, arrangement creates many problems usually due to […]
Lean purchasing
While the NHS stands by to bear its share of funding cuts, lean purchasing will become ever more important in order to save money. Nothing will, or should be, exempt […]
Waste safety training passport scheme
The prevention of accidents in the waste industries is a key requirement since at present accident and injury rates remain high and annual mortality figures still shame the industry. Despite […]
Sanitary/offensive wastes
Is this a waste stream appropriate for separate collection and disposal? Last updated: Tuesday, December 7, 2010