The environment department of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has fined three private hospitals for mixing hospital waste ...

After unearthing an illegal bio-medical waste storage site on the Dakala road, Patiala, it has come to light that the waste ...

Small quantities of waste with low biohazard risk may only require a simple autoclave with only basic features. A bin of waste, however, is likely to contain many haphazardly placed items, with ...

Microwaves are also commonly used. Before you shove medical waste in the breakroom’s microwave, it’s not powerful enough. Microwaves also aren’t effective at getting rid of pathological waste. A ...

Kochi: The Thrikkakara municipality imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 on a Bengaluru-based firm's franchise in the district for trying to illegally dispose of medical waste near the civic body's ...

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide marked the International Day of Zero Waste, which spotlighted solutions to the mounting environmental and social problems caused by the fashion and textile ...

Over the past ten years, the amount of waste across Australian coastal cities has reduced by almost 40%. We’re also finding more places with no rubbish at all. We surveyed for debris in and ...

Medical waste generated in healthcare facilities poses serious health risks as many hospitals keep discharging untreated waste water into open water bodies and dumping solid wastes in nearby dustbins.

But behind the scenes, there’s another essential element that plays a major role in patient safety and public health: proper medical waste disposal. It may not be the most glamorous topic ...

We witnessed an average of ten rats an hour in the highly populated urban area on the edge of the city centre and saw waste piled high on street corners. In some places rubbish, picked at by ...