The incinerators operate at temperatures of up to 1,200 degrees Celsius, using a dual-chamber system. “The primary chamber ...

Used needles in Virginia in 2018. Officials at the Ramsey-Washington Recycling and Energy Center say some medical waste isn't being properly disposed in Minnesota.

Blood-soaked bandages, bodily fluids and body parts have been found mixed in with waste and recycling products at the Ramsey/Washington Recycling and Energy Center in Newport, according to the ...

Waste management officials for Ramsey and Washington counties said Monday that multiple medical facilities are improperly sending infectious waste to its recycling facility. Ramsey/Washington ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. When you give blood to be tested at the doctor’s office, what happens to your sample when the tests are ...

· Hospital patients in the United States generate about 33.8 pounds of waste each day, which leads to about 6 million tons of waste annually. · While there are still many challenges to recycling ...

Introduction: Hazardous healthcare waste (HHCW) presents escalating environmental and operational challenges, yet traditional indicators such as waste generation rate (kg/bed/day) fail to account for ...

Image Credit: Frank Celia Medical practices may be ‘overclassifying’ their waste streams, leading to cost overruns and unintended environmental harm. Until recently, healthcare in the developed world ...

Home healthcare continues to surge and projects to reach more than $640 million by 2034. With that growth is the critical need for safely managing the growing volume of medical waste generated in ...

Sabic has collaborated with Zuyderland Medical Center in the Netherlands to transform medical plastic waste into new contact-sensitive packaging materials, marking a breakthrough in healthcare ...

Global leader in sensor-based sorting solutions, TOMRA Recycling, has launched FINDER™ COLOR, a new high-throughput solution designed to meet the evolving needs of the scrap metal recycling and ...