The treatment of medical waste is different from that of waste generated in daily life. Medical waste is dangerous and should be treated in a harmless way. Because there are a large number of pathogenic bacteria in medical waste, and harmful substances, if not handled properly, will cause environmental pollution, and even spread disease. According to national regulations to carry out the relevant disinfection and destruction and so on.
China has 1.35 million tons of medical waste each year. Such a huge amount of medical waste, in some cities have not been a formal recycling processing channels, so there are many medical waste disposal problems, was exposed to the incident occurred.
In the face of medical waste disposal problems, let's take a look at Australia. In Australia, the vast majority of medical waste is disposed of in landfills or incinerators, which are centralized by professional medical waste management companies.
In Russia, medical waste is categorized into five hazardous classes. The first is solid waste, which is not infectious, such as paper, plastic and glass bottles from hospitals. Category 2 is dominated by blood or other waste discharged by patients, which is mostly generated by outpatient clinics for infectious diseases.
This type of garbage should not be exposed to the air, and after collection, the packaging should clearly indicate the type of garbage and the unit that collects the garbage, and even the date and the name of the person who collects the garbage.
For extremely dangerous medical waste, special storage is carried out after sterilization before transportation.
Throughout the world, developed countries have very strict requirements for handling medical waste. Staff should be equipped with work clothes and personal protective equipment, never allowed to wash their work clothes at home, and personal clothes and work clothes should be placed in different cabinets.