Monthly clinical waste collections were axed by the council weeks before yellow bags were mysteriously dumped in Swindon. Swindon Borough Council, which moved swiftly to remove the nine sacks left […]
When is clinical waste not clinical waste? The answer, it seems, depends on what the Local Authority want in order to bolster their argument. Perhaps this is a position that […]
Three-quarters of local authorities in England collect clinical waste from residents’ homes, a survey has found. The Local Government Association (LGA) received responses from 121 English councils to its Clinical […]
In a news report describing plans for a recycling plant to be established on the site of a former Dundee school there is but one interesting claim, that the site […]
With uncertainty and, by the sound of it, a bit of a rumpus about who should fund about domestic clinical waste collections and thus who is responsible for pulling the […]
A couple of years ago, an increasing number of community nurses got a bee in their collective bonnet about the carriage of clinical wastes in their NHS-funded cars. The issue […]
A Batley pensioner is struggling to have her used diabetic needles collected. Describing her ‘nightmare’ to the local press with fears about the accumulation of sharps boxes in her home [presumably, […]
Many councils are not managing safety effectively, for waste collections and the staff involved, and more generally. Nearly one fifth of local authorities are not following important health and safety […]
Clinical waste collection problems sometimes run in a manner that is less than satisfactory, and services operated by Birmingham City Council are obviously no exception. Last updated: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Birmingham Mail reports residents concerns about a pile of around 30 clinical waste bags – they say yellow but in the picture they look orange, certainly not Tiger bags – on […]