Medical Waste

SWANA is urging state and local governments to include waste management in emergency orders being issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Stericycle participated in NWRA’s March 19 webinar, “Managing COVID-19 Waste,” to discuss the safe handling of waste during this pandemic.

The company handles hazardous materials and infectious waste streams daily and manages decontamination responses amid infectious disease outbreaks.

PegEx has released guidance for the waste management industry handling COVID-19 materials.

Waste and recycling industry stakeholders are closely monitoring developments surrounding COVID-19 as well as the medical waste being generated.

The document aims to provide guidance for NWRA member companies that do not routinely collect or process regulated medical waste.

Long-term care providers, who were once exempt from the hazardous pharmaceutical waste regulations, now have very specific requirements.

Penta Medical Recycling is looking to repurpose prosthetics by providing used ones from the U.S. to six developing countries.

China’s largest professional supplier of medical waste treatment equipment is helping the Wuhan government build a medical waste treatment plant equipped to handle 30 tons per day.