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Disposal of medical waste: the problems continue to increase
Nursing Standard, 1990More than 3 million metric tons of medical waste is produced in the United States each year. Its disposal costs in excess of 3 billion dollars according to one estimate, reported in an American nursing journal.
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The Impact of Medical Waste on the Environment and Methods of Disposal
Journal of Environmental Impact and Management Policy, 2023The person has the right to obtain the necessary health care, whether by providing the necessary medicine or whoever provides it. This service has known a great development throughout the ages until it reached its highest levels and is known today as these last medical services.
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Guidelines for defining and disposing of medical waste.
Aviation, space, and environmental medicine, 1978Considerations of ecology, public health hazards, and rising health costs have been critically reevaluated in the matter of appropriate medical waste disposal at nursing homes and hospitals. The Maryland Department of Health has intermittently received reports from the public of human tissues, bandages, and other inappropriate, unaesthetic materials ...
F S, Norris, B G, Young
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[Appropriate disposal of medical wastes--according to the manual on disposal of infectious wastes].
Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology, 2000Medical organizations are responsible for appropriate disposal of their wastes. This paper explains the regulatory bases and management systems applicable to medical wastes as specified by the Ministry of Health and Welfare's manual on the disposal of infectious wastes.
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An overview of the medical waste disposal of Turkey
2020Among the general wastes, medical wastes originating from health institutions have the status of special wastes. Since there are infected, pharmaceutical, pathological, various chemical and radioactive wastes as well as pointed and cutting tools in the waste of health institutions, they must be collected and treated separately from general wastes ...
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A review on emergency disposal and management of medical waste during the COVID-19 pandemic in China
Science of the Total Environment, 2022Hailong Zhao, Hanqiao Liu, Guoxia Wei
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Energy, environment and economy assessment of medical waste disposal technologies in China
Science of the Total Environment, 2021Hanqiao Liu, Ning Zhang
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Medical waste disposal: to burn or to landfill?
Hospitals, 1978Conflicting regulations and varying definitions with regard to medical wastes and their disposal have long been a source of confusion for health care institutions attempting to resolve this problem. Presented for the interest of other concerned agencies are guidelines recently drafted by the task force on medical waste disposal of the Maryland ...
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