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). […]
Plastics recovery and recycling from clinical wastes has been a thorny matter, with Environment Agency pedants saying No without a thought to the material, environmental and economic value of resource […]
There is often a desire to try something new, to diversity perhaps, or to extend an existing waste management practise perhaps to develop resource recovery or inclusion of an additional waste […]
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 […]
Sharps safety gloves, and the ballistic panels in trousers, are crucially important in so many ways. Used by the Police, prison and security services and, of course, by all of those […]
China’s is a vast and largely untapped market. For the clinical and related waste sectors, there are many opportunities though in larger centers, large towns and most cities, an infrastructure […]
Disposal of the dead is always a problem. In many countries, space for burial it at a premium especially for city dwellers. The rituals , surrounding death, proscribed by religion […]
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, […]
How do we improve clinical waste disposal practice? The answer to this question is not so easy. There is the hugely bloated HTM 07-01 that seeks to instruct but not inform, […]
The need to clean up hospital wastewater is now well-recognised. It is rich in the pharmaceutical residues excreted by the patient population, together with a diversity of chemicals such as cleaning […]
There are many pressures on hospitals and other healthcare service providers, healthcare consumables and equipment suppliers, designers, builders and operators of healthcare premises, and of those servicing the waste disposal […]
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 […]
The furious lobby against those clinical waste disposal contractors providing disposal services to licensed US abortion clinics continues unabated. Now, the Stop Stericycle campaign looks set to spill over into […]
“Medical waste is not recyclable” This is the banner headline in a news report concerning, yet again, the persistent problem of sharps turning up in household recyclables. The statement is […]
GreenBiz.com is questioning the suitability of new US laws that will require pharmaceutical manufacturers to make a financial contribution to disposal of their products. “Officials in Alameda County, California are breaking new […]
All corners of the healthcare sector should be ready for the introduction of safety sharps, as mandated under Council Directive 2010/32/EU. Indeed, we might hope that as many as possible, if not all, […]
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. […]
The season for flu vaccine is not far away and in the UK alone millions of vaccine doses will be administered, almost every one from a single-use pre-filled syringe. In […]
Perhaps surprisingly, GPs have for years received cash supplements for the disposal of trade waste as part of their contracts with PCTs. Their enjoyment of this welcome uplift in funding, which […]
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 […]
Advertising flimflam is part of the way of things these days, and we all take it with a generous pinch of salt. In the UK, claims have to be compliant with […]
Refrigerating clinical wastes is something that occasionally appears on the UK agenda but is rightly dismissed as an unnecessary energy expenditure (though with global warming perhaps things will change). However, […]
Judgment of the Tribunal in connection with an application by SRCL Limited (“Stericycle”) for review of a decision by the Competition Commission (“CC”) dated 21 March 2012 (“the Report”), which sets out […]
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
There is substantial evidence to suggest that the majority of the UK will face drought conditions in the year ahead. Even though the water companies have at last done something about […]
The local press report “Shotts residents delighted after medical incinerator plans rejected by council” but they, the Harthill Environmental Action Group, don’t look very pleased about it do they? Last updated: […]
After substantial delay, “North Lanarkshire Council’s decision to reject a planning application for a controversial medical waste treatment plant in Shotts could result in the loss of 120 jobs. “Last […]
A new Healthcare Waste Conference will take place on May 2 & 3, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas. The symposium will be devoted to the management of healthcare wastes and all the […]