When it comes to healthcare, we often focus on the critical roles of doctors, nurses, and medical treatments. But behind the scenes, there’s another essential element that plays a major role in ...

In this Waste360 Q&A, Kristin Aldred discusses existing rules around home healthcare waste disposal and gaps in regulation ...

Coronavirus has made medical waste more visible than ever, but the environmental footprint of healthcare goes much further – and reducing it could save lives. When surgeon Claire Teves* (not her real ...

Condoms and syringes mixed with household waste and then exported from the United Kingdom to Brazil for recycling. Scalpels and other sharps left in heaps outside of hospitals. Effluents from health ...

The business of waste — specifically, the business of off-site management of hazardous and non-hazardous medical waste — is big. The global medical waste management industry is so large, in fact, that ...

With more than £100,000 in student debt, Dr Luke Craddock, 26, now faces unemployment - Lorne Campbell/Guzelian After seven years of medical training, gruelling hospital shifts and more than £100,000 ...

HYDERABAD: In the course of the last four years, the State has witnessed substantial progress in the handling of bio-medical waste (BMW). The Telangana Socio-Economic Outlook 2022 and 2023 showed that ...

SAN JOSE — The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office is alleging that the South Bay’s three county-run hospitals are improperly disposing medical waste including human flesh, high-grade ...

BEKASI, Indonesia: Resting on a mound of dirt on one side of an 11ha landfill in the outskirts of Jakarta, sitting side by side with discarded food packaging, broken toys and other domestic waste, ...