Infectious and/or potentially biohazardous materials may be discarded as RMW to obviate the additional effort of inactivating such materials before disposal in the common waste stream. Investigators ...

All materials that have been in contact with agents potentially infectious to humans must be treated as Regulated Medical Waste. This includes materials that have been in contact with human blood, or ...

Infectious waste is any waste with the presence or the reasonable anticipated presence of blood or other potentially infectious materials on an item or surface. The following are typical materials ...

As secure information destruction providers look to ancillary services in an effort to diversify their businesses, they may find themselves considering the transportation and disposal of regulated ...

U.S. healthcare facilities faced an unexpected dilemma during the international outbreak of West Ebola Virus Disease (EBV) from 2014-2016: hospitals were unprepared and often overwhelmed as they ...

The business of waste — specifically, the business of off-site management of hazardous and non-hazardous medical waste — is big. The global medical waste management industry is so large, in fact, that ...

RIT generates regulated medical waste at various locations across campus. Much like hazardous waste, regulated medical waste cannot be disposed in the general trash and must be managed in accordance ...

While health officials insist the general public does not need to wear surgical masks or other personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent contracting the novel coronavirus, millions have emptied ...

Emergency departments of hospitals generate significant amounts of environmentally harmful waste which could be reduced through basic changes to disposal policies and practices, while producing lower ...