Medical waste is the first to be included in the National Hazardous Waste Inventory, with the generation segment under the control of the health department and the disposal segment under the control of the environmental protection department. At present, China's medical waste can only be disposed of, can not be used, a single disposal method, only incineration and autoclaving, and because incineration is not selected by the disposal unit, so most of China's medical waste disposal process autoclaving, sterilized plastic to be destroyed, and then can be landfilled according to general solid waste. This is the formal destination of medical waste.
Legal point of view, according to the Environmental Protection Law, illegal disposal of hazardous waste, more than 3 tons into the penalty, you can see the country on the severity of this behavior. But the wording of the law is very strict, this year 315 exposure of this plastic processing behavior, does not belong to the disposal, focus, not disposal behavior! So the sentence may be light, and then draw on other answers, such as the "Medical Waste Management Regulations", but also only administrative penalties, so the law in this behavior, not considered harsh.
But the violation of the Chinese People's *** and State Environmental Protection Law, Article 42; Chinese People's *** and State Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control Law, Article 55, Article 57 and so on. If the amount is large, it may violate Article 338 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State. Generally speaking, medical waste is hazardous waste, collection, transfer, disposal, utilization of the whole process are required to have the qualification of the unit to complete (in addition to the national hazardous waste list of exemptions may not be in accordance with the management of hazardous waste), or else they are all violations of the Chinese People's **** and the State Environmental Protection Law and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes, a large amount of which will be a violation of the Criminal Law (according to the criminal law on the handling of criminal cases of environmental pollution, the law applicable to Interpretation of a number of issues (Legal Interpretation (2016) No. 29): illegal discharge, dumping, disposal of hazardous waste more than three tons is considered serious pollution of the environment, which in turn constitutes the crime of pollution of the environment). In addition, there are also regulations that specialize in the management of medical waste, in which the provisions are very detailed: medical waste management regulations.
Finally added if you are involved in the illegal discharge, collection, transportation, disposal and utilization of medical waste (neither medical waste disposal related qualification unit, hazardous waste disposal qualification in the provincial ecological environment hall can be checked; hospitals or clinics will be handed over to the medical waste does not have the qualification of the unit is also illegal), you can call the environmental protection hotline 12369 report, of course, other Environmental pollution or ecological damage and other related reports can call the hotline.