Medical waste is classified as infectious waste, pathological waste, injurious waste, pharmaceutical waste, chemical waste, and disposal methods include high temperature incineration, pyrolysis, and sterilization.
Medical waste refers to the direct or indirect infectious, toxic and other hazardous wastes generated by medical institutions in medical, preventive, health care and other related activities, including infectious, pathological, injurious, pharmaceutical and chemical wastes. These wastes contain a large number of bacterial viruses.
And there is a certain amount of space pollution, acute viral infection and latent infection characteristics, such as not to strengthen the management, randomly discarded, allowed to be mixed into the living garbage, dispersed into the living environment, will contaminate the atmosphere, water, plants and animals, resulting in the spread of disease, a serious hazard to the physical and mental health of people.
Medical Waste Disposal Methods
All medical waste and household garbage should never be mixed. What belongs to medical waste in our life? Such as used cotton balls, sand cloth, adhesive tape, waste water, disposable medical instruments, post-operative discards, expired medicines, etc. are all medical waste. According to the medical testing report of the national health department.
Since medical waste has the characteristics of space pollution, acute contagion and latent pollution, its viruses, germs are dozens, hundreds or even thousands of times more harmful than ordinary household garbage. If not handled properly, it will cause serious pollution of the environment and may also become the source of epidemic disease. Medical waste has a complex composition.
Including: susceptible garbage, pathological garbage, sharps garbage, medicinal garbage, genotoxic garbage, chemical garbage, radioactive garbage and so on. Because of the presence of infectious bacteria, viruses, chemical pollutants and radioactive substances in medical waste, it is extremely harmful and is called "top killer" abroad.
If the living garbage and medical waste mixed discharge, which will increase the amount of pollution, will lead to the proliferation of germs, therefore, the hospital medical waste collection and treatment is urgent. At present, China's medical waste are using incineration treatment.
Some major cities in China have established waste incineration plants or incineration treatment plants, such as Shenzhen, Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Chengdu, Anshan, Shenyang and other cities, are medical waste incineration harmless treatment. The volume of residue after waste incineration accounts for only 5-25% of the original volume, and the heat generated can be recycled. Unified treatment of medical waste, so that the urban area to reduce the exhaust smoke points, can reduce the atmosphere of the pollution within the city.