Twenty activists have targeted a waste facility next to Ipswich Hospital last Friday, claiming that energy generated from burning dead dogs used for medical research at MBR Acres is being […]
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 […]
Staged pyrolysis of medical waste for high-value product generation Staged pyrolysis is a pyrolysis technique that can improve the quality of pyrolysis products while reducing the generation of pollutants, which […]
Burning rubbish could help to heat Staffordshire’s main hospital amid plans for a new incinerator. Proposals are being drawn up for the Royal Stoke University Hospital to receive both heat […]
Work has started on a new clinical waste incinerator for Guernsey. Remarkably, this will accept clinical and hygiene wastes etc, but also animal wastes. The existing incinerator on the Princess […]
Veolia has expanded its medical waste management capabilities to address “key issues” for the healthcare sector and the NHS. The services aim to help organisations to make further progress on […]
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, […]
Syringes used during the Covid-19 pandemic will be recycled at a Hull factory. MYGroup’s Hull factory has been recycling unrecyclable plastics for several years but says it has now been […]
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 […]
Recycle clinical waste? Really??
Study on the process of medical waste disinfection by microwave technology. Liu J, Li H, Liu Z, Meng X, He Y, Zhang Z. Waste Manag. 2022 Jun 30;150:13-19. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2022.06.022.
Clinical Waste Operative Full time at Tradebe Management Limited in United Kingdom Job details Tradebe Healthcare require Plant Operative’s for our Glasgow site. Pay and Benefits: Salary from £20,000 p/a depending on shift 8 […]
NeedleSmart claims that it is helping to reduce clinical waste in the UK. “According to a statement, British smart MedTech company, NeedleSmart, is at the forefront of helping the British […]
An energy-from-waste plant (EfW) operating 24 hours a day could be built in a former quarry at Greenham, near Wellington, if county council officers approve it. The plan is to […]
Garry Pettigrew, the former boss of a clinical waste company faces trial over the alleged illegal storage of human body parts and other materials. It is also alleged that he […]
A major fire broke out at IMAGE, the bio-medical waste management plant of Indian Medical Association Kerala, at Kanjikode on Sunday. The fire was detected at noon and fire force […]
Valorisation of used surgical masks Pyrolysis of waste surgical masks into liquid fuel and its life-cycle assessment. Li C, Yuan X, Sun Z, Suvarna M, Hu X, Wang X, Sik […]
Daniels Healthcare, the UK market leader for sharps and clinical waste containers, has introduced the world’s first UN-approved clinical waste container made from post-consumer recycled resin (PCR) to the UK. […]
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 […]
Grundon are looking for an experienced Contract or Waste Manager to be based at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. Do you have at least five years’ experience as a Contract or […]
Turning putrid waste into fragrant smells is the claim, but what is the reality? A new technology from a CSIR lab could address the problem of disposing biomedical waste safely […]
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 […]
Some St Ives residents are unhappy about potentially toxic chemicals that could be pumped from the incinerator stack of a new and innovative clinical waste incinerator. A recycling plant near […]
A Welsh manufacturer, which is on a mission to tackle the world’s growing personal protective equipment (PPE) waste problem, is set to expand its global presence after securing its first […]
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 […]
General operatives required for clinical waste recycling plant, Schotts. No manual handling Disposal of pre-segregated hospital waste products Adherence to high standards of hygiene essential. Hours of work: 4 on 4 […]
Veolia’s energy recovery facility in Tyseley, Birmingham, will soon use waste from a massive NHS Test and Trace laboratory to produce green energy for the city. The resource management company has been […]
A local councillor has condemned the dumping of “clinical waste” outside of a popular youth club in South Belfast. On Sunday, a number of bags of rubbish which appeared to […]