Safe Disposal of Slaughter House Wastes

Safe disposal and effective destruction of clinical wastes.

In this edition of the Journal of Hospital Infection, Kanemitsu et al. report their findings from laboratory studies intended to evaluate the efficacy of incineration as a method for sterilization of clinical wastes. High-temperature incineration is regarded as a wholly effective ‘gold standard’ method for the sterilization of wastes, although few attempts have been made to obtain ‘proof of pro...

Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

Almost all major nuclear operations produce residues containing radioactive materials; in reactor operations, for example, the fission products, new elements (such as plutonium) produced by neutron irradiation and the unfissioned nuclear fuel are all radioactive. Some of this material can be put to further use: useful radioisotopes, for instance, can be extracted from the fission products and p...

The disposal of clinical wastes.

The disposal of clinical wastes is often poorly conducted and inadequately supervised despite the publication of clear and definitive working guidelines and the introduction of increasingly stringent legislative control. The move away from landfill disposal of clinical wastes, and the further development of high temperature incinerators able to meet increasingly tight emission limits, is to be ...

Safe and simple method for the disposal of mercury-containing wastes from Kjeldahl analyses.

Supercritical water oxidation: An environ- mentally safe method for the disposal of organic wastes

Supercritical water oxidation provides a powerful means to transform toxic organic materials into simple, relatively inert oxides. Over the past decade, our understanding of the fundamental chemistry of this process has increased markedly. Many fascinating research papers are appearing from laboratories around the world, on the use of the technique for the decomposition of a variety of organic ...