There has been much written about the level in wastage in healthcare, of missed appointments, excessive salaries, waste in heating and lighting, waste of drugs and dressings, and most critically […]

Many providers supply special containers for placenta disposal to allow safe containment and transport to a disposal point. Incineration is the usual process. If stored in a freezer, several pharmaceutical […]

Drug users in Cambridge want smaller sharps bins to stop dirty needles littering the city – because the existing boxes are too big.

The Waste Commission of Scott County, Iowa, has held their own Operation Medicine Cabinet during which residents could safely dispose of old medications, exchange mercury thermometers for a digital, pick […]

On the 8th March 2010 the EU Employment and Social Affairs Ministers adopted a Directive to prevent injuries and blood-borne infections to hospital and healthcare workers from sharp objects such […]

Healthcare facilities in the Abu Dhabi emirate produce around 12 tonnes of medical waste per day, majority of which are from the government-run hospitals and clinics, Khaleej Times has learnt.

About half of U.S. hospitals are recycling at least some of the medical supplies the would otherwise dispose of, as the health care industry is beginning to tackle the problem […]

Patients have been urged to stop stockpiling prescription drugs after the NHS revealed upwards of 250 tonnes of prescription pills have been wasted.

A little like our own EA warnings to GPs, but with far greater salience, veterinary clinics in the Emirates are warned about the careful handling of medical (clinical) waste. http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/veterinary-clinics-get-notices-on-disposal-of-waste-2010-10-05-1.299576 Regulators have […]

A former bodybuilder stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs while working at a medical waste-disposal company, a court has heard. The Victorian County Court heard John Gonzalez used […]

A crackdown by the Environment Agency, from 1 October, will target GP surgeries and similar size clinical waste producers. Since waste treatment sites that accept clinical waste must obtain detailed information about its […]

KOLKATA: The state pollution control board has accidentally stumbled upon a huge racket in illegal trade of deadly bio-medical waste along the city’s eastern fringes. Shocked at the sheer scale […]