Infectious waste is divided into infected patients' medical waste and domestic waste, which usually includes the following:
1, medical waste: such as pillows, syringes, bed linen, dressings, dressing change bowls;
2, domestic waste: cups of water and cutlery used by infected patients.
Infectious waste contains a large number of disease-causing organisms, has become a source of infection in hospitals and the social and environmental hazards, the management of which has been the government and the health department of the administration of a certain amount of attention, but there are still some problems. Such as the current treatment of infectious waste is more units of self-processing, fewer professionals, inadequate equipment, lack of financial resources, small hospitals often infectious waste mixed in the life of the garbage together, in a non-separate state, which will pollute the environment, endangering health.