“An international group of scientists, including the young Chelsea Rochman and Mark Anthony Browne from California, with the support of the veteran marine scientist Richard Thompson from the UK and a host of […]
Do you manufacture low-cost robust clinical waste incinerators? Or indeed, do you provide autoclaves or other clinical waste processing technologies? If so, a ready market is waiting for you in Egypt. […]
The Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) green bench has directed all public and private hospitals to install incinerators so hospital waste is properly disposed and does not pollute the environment. The […]
This interesting patented technology is apparently now available for licensing worldwide to convert medical waste into fuel. Pelleted fuel can be used in cement kilns and other large users of industrial […]
Solid Waste Magazine reports: “The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized clean air standards for major and area source boilers and Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration (CISWI). […]
Jamaica’s capability to dispose of clinical (medical) waste has been significantly boosted, with the official opening of the National Medical Waste Management Plant on November 29. The facility in downtown […]
A Brunswick, Maine, hospital is reported to be successfully recycling operating room waste into park benches. Mid Coast Hospital has launched a new recycling program that turns plastic waste from its […]
Reading a misprint today, “Hospital Integrated Waste Steam Solutions“, it should have been waste ‘stream’ solutions raised the question why not use the hospital steam supply to process clinical wastes […]
Nice piece by Deanne Halvorsen in the magazine Pharmacy Purchasing and Products concerning the implementation of a strategic pharmaceutical waste management program that can result in several benefits, including increased environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, […]
“Where did the ankles in the landfill come from?” This unusual title is taken from Beaumont Enterprise, who ask this in connection with the discovery of several body parts found at […]
Some fractions of clinical waste must be incinerated to make them safe and eliminate any possible hazard to health or to the environment. Pharmaceutical waste is foremost among these fractions. In […]
We assume, despite regulatory insistence on depositing much sanitary and offensive waste needlessly in landfill, that higher grade clinical wastes and tissue wastes in particular will be treated more effectively, probably by high […]
Interesting and well-balanced piece in Waste Management World about the production of dioxins during the incineration of clinical wastes. Claiming support from statements made by the World Health Organisation, the piece is actually […]
With few, if any environmentally-friendly, low-cost options for safe disposal of infectious wastes that might be used in resource-poor regions, there has for many years been a need for technical […]
Representatives of the pressure group Health Care Without Harm have set themselves against pyrolysis for clinical (medical) wastes, and probably for anything else too. Environment and health advocates – their own […]
The Bac Kan-based Hoa Tu Long Industry Company officially put the medical waste incinerator (YT30) into operation. This is the first high-tech incinerator made in Vietnam. The incinerator has the capacity of […]
The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) has finalized an agreement with Stanford University Medical Center to begin a six-month pilot study to develop a better understanding of plastic waste characterization within healthcare facilities. […]
Last updated: Thursday, August 9, 2012
You may have heard news bulletins today of the retention of tissues from wounded and dead UK soldiers. No doubt someone had read of the US cases, and decided to […]
By analyzing wastewaters for a range of urinary biomarkers, it is possible to reliably detect drug abuse patterns in cities. The findings of a comparative study of illegal drug consumption in […]
A few minutes away from the main Peshawar hospitals, children rummage through trash, collecting used syringes, sharp blades and blood bags. These children are gathering medical waste from garbage dumps […]
HOSPITALS have been banned from disposing of aborted and miscarried babies by burning them as clinical waste. The Scottish Government have issued guidelines to health boards stating the practice is […]
A vet has been fined for illegally dumping sacks full of medical waste contaminated with blood. On June 23, 2011, five black sacks containing syringes, drug bottles and articles contaminated with […]
The Guardian reports of the approximately £150 million of medicines returned to pharmacists each year that are “wasted” and destroyed by incineration rather than re-issued. It is, of course, a tale of […]
Norovirus outbreaks continue to be a major seasonal problem and cause huge disruption to care services with substantial morbidity and mortality. What to do with Norovirus waste? Much waste will be destined for the toilet […]
By analysing the pharmaceutical waste produced by eight operating rooms, an anaesthetist in New York found that discarded or wasted propofol made up 45% of all the drug waste. Future wastage […]
Saskatoon is in the middle of nowhere – quite literally, it is located in the most central part of Canada and has few, if any, close neighbours. This makes a particularly […]
I had the misfortune of a hospital appointment yesterday, for a series of tests that too place in a modest sized room equipped with an examination couch and a whole […]
It’s a bold claim, but one that is not implausible and certainly to be applauded. Southend Hospital is celebrating becoming 100% landfill free with its waste. Last updated: Saturday, March 3, 2012
What is the CO2 footprint of your waste management operation? Ir is an important question, for all our sakes, and must be considered by waste producers, operators, planners and regulators alike. […]