How to Get Rid of Medical and Clinical Waste

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How to get rid of medical and clinical waste
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How to get rid of medical and clinical waste

• Waste management is everyones responsibility. If
  people do not take care of the waste properly
  then it will have a damaging impact on the
  environment and other people. You cannot just
  leave the waste laying around in the streets
  especially the toxic and dangerous waste like the
  medical or clinical waste. The clinical waste
  consists of sharp items like needles and also
  expired medicines and they can be dangerous for
  the people who come across them and their
  surroundings.
• All the health care facilities need to find a
  proper way to get rid of the waste. They need to
  hire professionals like skip hire in Tameside as
  they have been trained and equipped to handle the
  waste.

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Incineration

• Most of the clinical waste is incinerated as
  there are many waste-to-energy technologies
  available nowadays. The process requires
  extremely high temperatures so that the organic
  substances present in the waste can be combusted.
  During this waste treatment process, the
  temperature is so high that the incinerated
  material turns into ash, heat, and gas.
• The waste treatment process produces a lot of
  heat and the generated heat can be recycled as
  heat energy. The process is good for the
  environment as well because it reduces the mass
  of the waste by about eighty percent along with
  the volume by more than 95 percent. It only
  leaves a small fraction of the waste which
  reduces the negative impact of waste on the
  environment. After the incineration process is
  completed there is a tiny amount of waste left
  for the landfill site.

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Autoclave sterilization

• The medical and clinical waste is also disposed
  of with autoclave sterilization system. The waste
  that is infectious or hazardous needs to go
  through the sterilization before it goes into the
  landfill site. It is not safe for the environment
  to put infectious medical waste in the landfill
  because it can spread and cause serious damage to
  the surroundings and the people that may come in
  contact with the people.
• Most of the surgical items have become single-use
  items so the health care facilities cannot use
  them again. But even the single-use medical tools
  need to treat the contaminated items before they
  are disposed of.
• The autoclave sterilization units are just like
  large pressure cookers. The process shreds the
  waste and then puts the infected clinical waste
  in a vessel that is made up of steel. High
  pressure saturated steam is pumped in the steel
  vessel and the temperature of the steam is about
  160 degrees. The pressure is maintained for about
  25 minutes and gives a chance to the hot air to
  kill dangerous microorganisms. In the end, the
  items are disintegrated in non-hazardous material.

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Cont.

• Autoclave sterilization is effective in reducing
  the volume of the waste but it is not the best
  choice if you are looking to recycle because only
  17.5 residue is available for recycling. The
  small amount of non-hazardous left after the
  process is taken to incineration plants or
  landfill sites.
• Healthcare facilities have a responsibility to
  dispose of medical and clinical waste properly so
  that they do not put people and the environment
  at risk.