A pioneering project between the University of South Wales (USW) and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) has successfully repurposed medical items, saving more than £20,000 and significantly reducing […]
There is no doubt that the volume of plastic wastes from all our activities, including healthcare, include vast quantities of plastic wastes. Inevitably, this comprises many different types of plastic […]
An interesting study from Tehran seeks to identify health risk and toxicity assessment of exhaust air from non-incineration devices for hospital waste treatment. The study investigates the health risks and […]
Review on distribution, fate, and management of potentially toxic elements in incinerated medical wastes. Bolan S, Padhye LP, Kumar M, Antoniadis V, Sridharan S, Tang Y, Singh N, Hewawasam C, […]
Researchers from Brazil describe the clinical features of monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection in a 20-year-old nurse after a needlestick injury she sustained on July 9, 2022. The nurse was collecting […]
Myanmar Now investigation finds waste collectors selling used syringes and intravenous drips to be made into household goods. Two garbage disposal workers spent half an hour rummaging through mounds of […]
Medical waste disposal provider Stericycle has resolved anti-corruption investigations involving its legacy Latin American business. The Illinois-based company came to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the […]
Stericycle, Inc. has announced its new SafeShield™ antimicrobial medical waste containers, a line of high-quality, standardized containers specifically designed for the storage and transport of regulated medical waste (RMW). Compared […]
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is consulting on the storage and treatment of healthcare waste. The consultation is linked to new guidance designed to help operators understand and meet their […]
Stericycle to pay $81 million, hire monitor, to resolve bribery probes as the company discloses deal to resolve investigations into compliance with US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Under an agreement […]
Medical waste management during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak: A mathematical programming model Full paper download at Medical waste management during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak: A mathematical programming […]
Mapping healthcare waste management research: Past evolution, current challenges, and future perspectives towards a circular economy transition. Ranjbari M, Shams Esfandabadi Z, Shevchenko T, Chassagnon-Haned N, Peng W, Tabatabaei M, […]
A farming community is fighting the erection of a “26 metre clinical (medical) waste incinerator” near their land in Huntingdonshire. Chicken farmer Simon Bluff is among those concerned about Envar’s […]
Is Bellshill Industrial Estate the best place for a clinical/medical waste plant that went on fire? A councillor has written to the Scottish Government in a quest to effect the […]
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 […]
A roadmap for bio-medical waste management research. Shwetmala K, Arkalgud R, Anilkumar M. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2021 Apr 14. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3170.
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, […]
Sculptor Marcelo Toledo turns medical waste into art to mark what has been a difficult year. Pain into beauty: Sculptor turns medical waste into art (yahoo.com)
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 […]
Stericycle Inc. has reached a settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designed to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean […]
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 […]
Sri Lanka has sent back to Britain 21 containers holding up to 260 tonnes of waste brought to the island in violation of international laws that govern the shipping of […]
The victim told officers that a Guam Medical Waste Management company van went missing from the company’s property about two days prior, documents state. She said the van had permanent […]
Treating microbiological laboratory waste on the site where it is produced: RPS 233 Microbiological laboratories produce microbiology cultures and other microbiologically contaminated wastes. They are autoclaved on site to sterilise […]
Hailed as “the world’s most expensive hotel room,” the $100,000-a-night, two-story suite, designed by famed British artist Damien Hirst, is the perfect spot for somebody with way too much money […]
A building on a Tamworth industrial estate can now be used as a medical waste treatment plant – despite objections from hundreds of people. Health risks, 24 hour traffic and […]
A three-month aborted foetus, which was dumped in the biomedical waste room of the hospital, was devoured by a cat on this week. The shocking incident occurred at the King Edward […]
Regulated disposal of tissue waste has always been problematic. Simply putting them, suitably bagged or binned as appropriate into a licensed clinical waste incinerator is straightforward though often rather disruptive […]