A case of monkeypox is reported involving a physician after an occupational needlestick injury from a pustule. This case highlights risk for occupational transmission and manifestations of the disease after […]
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 […]
The Department of Environment will proceed with inspections and checks in medical centers and doctors’ offices all over Cyprus to ascertain whether they have made agreements with licensed units managing […]
The black market for human placentas thriving in China People who buy fresh human placenta believe it has healing properties and will either cook and eat it, or process and […]
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 […]
Veolia has introduced a treatment service for the potentially contaminated waste generated by Covid-19 tests. The waste produced from testing kits is classified as offensive waste (EWC 180104) and non-hazardous […]
GP practices in East Sussex have warned their CCG they will have to stop doing face-to-face appointments unless mounting amounts of clinical waste are urgently collected. Dr Russell Brown, a […]
A Sheffield woman has criticised the city council for failing to clear up ‘hazardous’ medical waste from outside her home for nearly a week. Retired nurse Patricia Cuddihy, who is […]
Environment Agency RPS updates: The latest regulatory position statement updates from the Environment Agency. Monitoring emissions from some environmental permitting activities: RPS C7 Emissions to air from Large Combustion Plant in […]
Better late than never, the Environment Agency have issued guidance concerning healthcare waste management changes in relation to coronavirus. It all seems quite sensible, though predictably late to appear. T hough […]
DEFRA is in talks with the waste industry and local authorities about ensuring collection and disposal services continue to operate as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the UK, […]
COVID-19 is a huge problem, and that includes a problem for those involved in waste management. In the last 2 days, Defra has issued advice to the waste sector and […]
The world is on alert because of the latest Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic that is spreading globally from its origins in Wuhan, China. The UK response has, it would appear, been […]
New EU rules could impact the UK’s energy-from-waste sector as a new waste incineration best available techniques reference document (BREF) is likely to have major cost implications for the UK’s energy-from-waste […]
Clinical hospital waste –including body parts – has been left piled up in bags at a site for nearly a year. A woman who lives nearby claims her life has been […]
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 […]
It is alleged that hundreds of tons of healthcare wastes, including as the press and politicians will insist a veritable mountain of body parts, have been stockpiled since collapse of […]
After HES Ltd, it seems that the Press are working hard to keep everyone on their toes. Finding wastes stored inappropriately at this Scottish hospital is causing red faces and, […]
A furious pensioner has told how her home is now plagued by rats and putrid pongs from an abandoned medical waste depot. The lady revealed vermin have overrun her garden since […]
Following up on a recent “expose” in which hospital porters were said to be handling clinical wastes without gloves – or were they – is another and more detailed report, […]
Harbour House raises concerns after waiting two weeks for clinical waste removal. The West Bay care home is still waiting for their bins to be emptied by contractor PHS, with […]
As we previously reported, new rulings mean sharps boxes will not be able to be taken to GP surgeries. Fenland District Council will instead be responsible who say it will be […]
A warning has gone out to parents after a used needles were found dumped in two Cornish towns. One was found on the path on Tower Road in Newquay on […]
A four-year-old girl stumbled across a pile of syringes, vials and other drug paraphernalia while playing hide and seek in Tarring Park. Her Mum said she was playing with her […]
Lord O’Shaughnessy (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health) delivered a written statement to the House yesterday, which has appeared in Hansard today. This statement is to update the House […]
A man with a learning disability who contracted Hepatitis B from a dirty needle while gardening died due to the virus twenty years later. Dermot Redmond (53) from Walkinstown Road […]
In a comment that perhaps rates as the most arrogant and ill-advised comment ever made regarding sharps safety, health ‘officials’ are urging Londoners to become more educated about discarded needles […]
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. And so it is when the public are fobbed off with headline statements regarding safety that address only one small part […]
CHANDIGARH: A task of unclogging drains belched out hundreds of used syringes at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, on Saturday, indicating that something was wrong in the disposal […]
The Health Protection Agency have released a new Public Health England report, “Shooting Up, the annual report on infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom, has […]