We are led to believe that there are opportunities for significant cost saving through improvement in source segregation of healthcare wastes. That is probably true, and of course the environment […]
Clemson University in South Carolina has developed a certificate program on medical device recycling and reprocessing. This is an interesting, and perhaps rather brave step since the product liability issues […]
News of another pilot program to recycle hospital gloves and non-woven polypropylene gowns, garments and disposable curtains, this time in the US. These initiatives are worthy of support though presently […]
The vast majority of pathology laboratory waste can be recycled. It contains a high proportion of plastic and with the exception of glass, not much else. That glass fraction is […]
There is much chatter at present, and many glossy advertisements backed up with frothy press releases, to describe the work of a consortium of major medical device manufacturers who promise […]