Charlotte Yeates, one of the women who helped unearth the hospital organ-retention scandal more than 20 years ago has described as “shameful” the incineration of babies’ remains in 2020. Charlotte […]
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 […]
Cash-strapped NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) is spending ever-increasing amounts of money on disposing of hazardous clinical waste, while a disposal firm awaits planning permission for a new incineration […]
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 […]
Thirty tons of clinical waste from Scottish hospitals was reported missing after the collapse of Lanarkshire-based disposal contractor HES last year and the Scottish Government has been urged to investigate […]
It started out as just a normal day at the tip for Mike Lewis of Carmarthen. The air was changing as the season altered from summer to autumn. The temperature […]
Yes, it’s true. A woman who is soon to have her leg amputated wants to use her own skin to make a handbag. Joan, who is 55 and from Manchester, […]
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 […]
Human remains and other medical waste that require professional storage and treatment are building up at dozens of NHS trusts in England after a scandal-hit contractor stopped collections. Ministers issued […]
SEVERAL NHS trusts in the North-East have had their clinical waste collections stopped after a scandal-hit contractor ran into difficulties. Hospitals run by ten NHS trusts in the region have been […]
In yet another shock horror news report it is claimed that HES were storing mountains of waste and ‘body parts’ in a freezer that for months had the power turned […]
Street cleaners in a northeastern Egyptian city found a medical waste bag in a garbage bin filled with human liver, other organs, and surgical instruments. Mahmoud, a cleaner, said he […]
On occasions, people want to keep their gallstones as a memento of their operation, and there is the ongoing issue of disposal of foetal remains and the question of a […]
Two fisherman have made a grisly discovery on an island in the Amur River, near Khabarovsk in the far east of Russia, when they stumbled upon a severed hand. Police […]
A council has plans to allow people to dispose of loved ones’ bodies through water cremation, a new and environmentally friendly way to get rid of human remains. The process […]
Stray dogs feasted on a stillborn in the Jeypore sub divisional Odisha hospital on Monday. A woman had delivered the stillborn baby and her relatives left it outside the labour […]
Police have been left mystified after a fresh heart, believed to be human, was found in a field. Police say no one has come forward to claim the organ! Officers […]
An Australian bulldozer driver’s grisly discovery has led to a health authorities and waste management services being slammed with $17,000 in fines, after he found two severed legs dumped in […]
Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for information after another human foot, the third in weeks, has been found in a park in Bath. Assumed to be not suspicious, in […]
A family were left horrified after going to visit the grave of a loved one in an Argentinian cemetery only to find dogs digging up human bones from tombs. The […]
Police investigating after a severed FOOT is found in a park by a dog walker, though its the dog who should probably get the credit. A severed human foot has […]
Two human legs that were removed during a surgery have been found in a waste dump near Newcastle in New South Wales, police have confirmed. A man working at a […]
BBC News has a piece today, reporting the case of a man who wanted to donate his amputated leg then chose to hold a guess-the-weight competition last month after his […]
Tissue waste disposal will generally necessitate high temperature incineration, or perhaps Resomation. Highly regulated more for aesthetic reasons than for concerns regarding infection – though even the most amorphous blob of […]
A new compact energy solution has been launched that will enable hospitals to turn contaminated syringes and other medical devices into heat. DPS Global has unveiled its ST Series, which […]
It has been in the news a lot recently, and we have discussed this previously on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum – to ponder upon when a blob of tissue […]
A mother has spoken of her anguish after learning her baby daughter’s body was incinerated with clinical waste at a Shropshire hospital in the 1990s. The woman said she was […]
Tissue waste disposal is a perennial problem. Incineration is the obvious though not only solution, but it is the problem of prior packaging, segregation and waste handling that creates some, […]
An astonishingly gruesome crime has been reported concerning the illegal disposal of hospital and clinical wastes from Ukrainian hospitals. A Ukrainian gang that took clinical (medical) waste that included body […]
There has been much anguish in recent months, and then not for the first time, concerning the disposal of foetal remains as clinical wastes. In Croatia however, matters have moved […]