Uncollected clinical waste in Calderdale ‘causing health and safety issues’ The COVID-19 pandemic has affected waste services of all kinds, but health and safety issues arise if clinical waste is not […]
Yet another job opportunity! This time, it’s for a Hospital Waste Porter in Halifax. Job details Posting date: 20 July 2021 Salary: £8.91 per hour Hours: Full time Closing date: […]
General operatives required for clinical waste recycling plant, Schotts. No manual handling Disposal of pre-segregated hospital waste products Adherence to high standards of hygiene essential. Hours of work: 4 on 4 […]
Clinical waste operative job in Bournemouth Job Reference: PLJSDFKLFS Location: Bournemouth Salary: £9.00 per hour Contract Type: Temporary, Full time CLINICAL WASTE OPERATIVE/LOADER required for ongoing contract in Bournemouth that could lead to […]
Clinical Waste Operative/Driver based in Wigan. Hours per week and Shift times: Monday to Friday 5.30am – 1.30pm. 40 Hours Per week with regular overtime About T.C. Bibby and Sons […]
Veolia’s energy recovery facility in Tyseley, Birmingham, will soon use waste from a massive NHS Test and Trace laboratory to produce green energy for the city. The resource management company has been […]
A local councillor has condemned the dumping of “clinical waste” outside of a popular youth club in South Belfast. On Sunday, a number of bags of rubbish which appeared to […]
Staff have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plant which processes medical waste in North Lanarkshire. Firefighters were called to the site run by Tradebe Healthcare on […]
Stericycle and UPS Healthcare have entered a partnership to manage the reverse logistics of medical waste. As a result of the partnership, the transportation, treatment, and disposal of a number […]
Public Attitudes towards Medicinal Waste and Medicines Reuse in a ‘Free Prescription’ Healthcare System. McRae D, Gould A, Price-Davies R, Tagoe J, Evans A, James DH. Pharmacy (Basel). 2021 Apr […]
Characterization of littered face masks in the southeastern part of Turkey. Akarsu C, Madenli Ö, Deveci EÜ. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Apr 24. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-14099-8. Occurrence of personal […]
A hospital is like a small town. Thousands of staff, patients and visitors on site at any one time As well as the core work of the hospital – assessing […]
The Department of Environment will proceed with inspections and checks in medical centers and doctors’ offices all over Cyprus to ascertain whether they have made agreements with licensed units managing […]
Close to a tonne of PPE otherwise destined for incineration or landfill has been recycled in a major green project by VetPartners. VetPartners initially piloted its recycling project in 100 […]
Managing lateral flow device (LFD) testing waste: RPS C25 The Environment Agency have released RPS C25, to explain when you can accept LFD testing waste coded 18 01 04 and […]
Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group announces a joint venture with Utrecht-based Greencycl. Thermal compaction technology developed in Wales is set to help reduce the amount of plastic waste produced by hospitals […]
POSOCO provides a medical waste incinerator machine to hospital under Swachhta Action Plan. A development that cannot really be criticised, but this really isn’t an incinerator. And yet more obvious, […]
On the same theme as previous threads relating to Covid-19 infection responsible for the tragic death of two hospital porters, and claims of segregation and waste management deficiencies at vaccination […]
A waste management company has been forced to make alternative arrangements for 15% of collections in London and South East England in the last week after ‘record numbers’ of drivers […]
The BBC report that a second hospital porter has sadly died from Covid-19 infection, the second Royal Stoke Hospital porter to die. Of course, this is terribly sad. Perhaps predictably […]
Veolia has introduced a treatment service for the potentially contaminated waste generated by Covid-19 tests. The waste produced from testing kits is classified as offensive waste (EWC 180104) and non-hazardous […]
Waste management contractors and similar businesses handling waste items from coronavirus testing in schools may be able to store the material if necessary, before moving it on for disposal treatment. […]
The 8,000 tonnes-per-year capacity clinical waste treatment plant in Malvern, Worcestershire, is to undergo commissioning following Covid-19-enforced construction delays. Developed by Waste Energy Partners, the facility will be owned by […]
The Environment Agency has now published an update to its Regulatory Position Statement (RPS C23) entitled “Incinerating specified healthcare wastes at a municipal waste incinerator: RPS C23”. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incinerating-specified-healthcare-wastes-at-a-municipal-waste-incinerator-rps-c23/incinerating-specified-healthcare-wastes-at-a-municipal-waste-incinerator-rps-c23 This COVID-19 […]
A new app, which gives care homes the ability to conduct compulsory clinical waste pre-acceptance and duty of care audits without the need for third-party on-site visits, has been launched […]
A Swansea University researcher team are investigating the possibility of using sunlight to convert hazardous medical waste into clean hydrogen fuel, developing a novel process called photoreforming which uses sunlight to simultaneously kill […]
GP practices in East Sussex have warned their CCG they will have to stop doing face-to-face appointments unless mounting amounts of clinical waste are urgently collected. Dr Russell Brown, a […]
Proposals for a new facility dealing with clinical waste have been approved despite more than 100 letters of concern. This week, Durham County Council’s county planning committee discussed plans for […]
I fully support co-incineration of clinical wastes with domestic refuse in newer waste-to-energy facilities, that is surely the way forward. Regrettably, it is reported that the Beddington Lane incinerator, which […]
New post available now for a clinical waste porter or, if you really want, an Operative! £9.45 per hour Sunderland, Tyne And Wear Temporary, full-time or part-time Duties and Responsibilities […]