Medical waste is hazardous waste.
Article 3 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste: Medical waste is hazardous waste. Medical waste classification in accordance with the "Medical Waste Classification Catalog". Medical waste *** is divided into five categories and is included in the National Hazardous Waste List.
Medical waste may contain a large number of pathogenic microorganisms and harmful chemicals, and even radioactive and injurious substances, so medical waste is an important hazardous factor causing the spread of disease or related public **** health problems.
Medical waste occurs along with the process of medical services, such as improper disposal, arbitrary open piles, not only occupies a large amount of land, resulting in the reduction of available land resources, and a large number of toxic waste residues or waste liquids in the natural world everywhere in the circulation, it is easy to come into contact with the soil, and some medical and health care institutions and even medical waste will be simply buried, which is a very large pollution of the soil, on the other hand.
Expanded information:
Medical waste, hazardous waste treatment methods:
1, physical treatment: through the concentration or phase change to change the structure of solid waste, so that it is easy to transport, storage, use or disposal, including compaction, crushing, sorting, thickening, adsorption, extraction and other methods.
2, chemical treatment: the use of chemical methods to destroy the harmful components of solid waste to achieve harmlessness, or transform it into a form suitable for further treatment and disposal. Its purpose is to change the chemical nature of the substance being treated so as to reduce its hazardous properties. This is a common pre-treatment measure before the final disposal of hazardous waste, and the treatment equipment is conventional chemical equipment.
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