Classification: infectious waste, carrying pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of infectious disease transmission of medical waste; pathological waste, diagnosis and treatment of human waste and medical laboratory animal carcasses; injurious waste, can be stabbed or cut the human body of the discarded medical sharps; medicinal waste, expired, obsolete or contaminated waste medicines; chemical waste, toxic, corrosive, waste chemical chemical waste, toxic, corrosive waste chemical substances.
Treatment: medical waste treatment technology is generally high-temperature treatment method, such as incineration, pyrolysis and vaporization method, can recover a large amount of thermal energy, a better solution to the biggest problem of medical waste incineration treatment technology; alternative treatment method, such as chemical disinfection, high temperature and high pressure steam sterilization, dry thermal disinfection, microwave treatment and safe landfill method; innovative technology, such as plasma technology, radiation technology. technology.
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Harms of Medical Waste
1. Pollution of the environmental aspect . Medical waste has a polluting effect on the atmosphere, groundwater, surface water, soil and so on. The garbage is piled up in the open air, causing the release of a large amount of ammonia, sulfide and other harmful gases, seriously polluting the atmosphere. The pathogens, heavy metals and organic pollutants carried by medical waste can cause serious pollution to surface water and groundwater through the action of leachate produced by rainwater and biological hydrolysis.
2, human health. There are many disease-causing microorganisms in medical waste, which in turn are often breeding grounds for mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches and rats. These germs can be transferred to humans through organisms living in the waste. Harmful substances such as chemical pollutants and radioactivity may also be present in medical waste, which is extremely dangerous.
3. It is also the main cause of cross-infection and air pollution in hospitals, with cross-infection caused by medical waste accounting for 20% of the social cross-infection rate.
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