BACKGROUND Medical waste is infectious and hazardous. It poses serious threats to environmental health and requires specific treatment and management prior to its final disposal. The problem is growing with an ever-increasing number of hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic laboratories in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. However, research on this critical issue has been very limited, and there is a serious...

Medical centers (that is, hospitals and clinics) in metropolitan areas produce substantial amounts of hazardous waste in both solid and liquid (wastewater) forms. Unless medical centers manage their waste with appropriate care, the significant hazards posed to urban residents and areas far outweigh the benefits of their services. Therefore, comprehensive environmental management programs need t...

Background/Aim. Among the other challenges of 21st century, medical waste (MW) has become an arising problem for both environment and people because its increasing amount, variety, complexity. That is way MW management one very important ecological imperatives. Serbia with no potential appropriate disposal all forced to export countries incineration facilities. Incineration lowers possible risk...

abstract background: solid waste generated by human activities. today, solid waste has changed a ‎lot‏ ‏with changing lifestyles. the main aim of this study ‎was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and behavior of students in ‎shiraz university of medical sciences about the recycling of solid ‎waste. methods: this analytical -descriptive cross- sectional study was ‎done on 383 students of shira...

The company’s proprietary electro-thermal-deactivation process destroys human pathogens without producing harmful airborne emissions and permits resource recovery. Stericycle operates on a multiregional basis, providing medical-waste collection, transportation, treatment, disposal, reduction, and resource recovery. FROM: Washington State Department of Health. Press Release: Probable transmissio...