The Kenyan Standard Digital reports on the pollution risks to residents close to a hospital that is burning its medical (clinical) waste in open burn pits. Choking smoke from burning medical waste at Molo […]
Cyprus seems to be in another mess, this time with its business and practical arrangements for clinical waste disposal. Authorities said on Thursday they had launched a probe into the […]
Sharps boxes containing used hypodermic needles are being found dumped in bushes around an area of a supermarket car park used by thousands of shoppers. Over the last few months, […]
It is now universal policy in the UK, Europe, US and in many other countries to dispose used needles WITHOUT removing the sheath, or if the needle is already exposed, […]
A team of environmentalists has been dispatched to investigate medical waste that landed up on Durban’s shores this week. Mayor Zandile Gumede announced on Tuesday morning that the team will […]
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. And so it is when the public are fobbed off with headline statements regarding safety that address only one small part […]
Global environmental services provider Tradebe has completed its acquisition of Labwaste, which specialises in collecting and disposing of hazardous waste, it was announced (4 Jan 2018). Based in Hinckley in […]
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 […]
Police have been searching through bags of hospital waste in a bid to find a woman’s clothes as part of a probe into her death. The 50-year-old was found with […]
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 […]
Call for urgent action to tackle environmental pollution at pharmaceutical factories supplying the UK NHS. Together with Changing Markets Foundation, Health Action International (HAI), Health Care Without Harm Europe and the Alliance […]
Each year, at least 2 million people in the United States become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a […]
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 […]
Wicklow council has been ordered to remove up to 1.4m tonnes of contaminated soil – “everything” – from the site of the largest illegal dump discovered in the State to date. […]
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. […]
Piles of clinical waste bags were left to mount up outside a hospital as vital workers went on strike against “slave-like” working conditions and zero-hours contracts. A porter revealed shocking […]
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 […]
A low-cost ingenious solution by a government doctor could get rid of liquid bio-medical waste in hospitals. Dubbed automated portable effluent treatment system (APETS), it can treat liquid waste, log […]
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 […]
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 […]
Clinical waste kept near play equipment – inspectors rule dentist does “not meet standards. Clinical waste was left near children’s play equipment at a dentist in Rugby branded unsafe by […]
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 […]
Two mothers claim shoppers’ groceries are at risk of contamination after footage appears to show Morrisons trolleys being used to transport bins for used sanitary products. One of the Mums claims […]