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Guidance signposts improved methods of managing healthcare waste disposal


1 October 2000, source LAWR

One of the leading service providers in the clinical waste sector, Polkacrest, recently re-launched its waste management service by re-focusing on clinical waste treatment to meet medical and dry waste collections needs of UK hospitals and other customers in healthcare.
One of the leading service providers in the clinical waste sector, Polkacrest, recently re-launched its waste management service by re-focusing on clinical waste treatment to meet medical and dry waste collections needs of UK hospitals and other customers in healthcare.
The handling, treatment and disposal of clinical or healthcare waste has been cause for concern in recent years as hospital managements and the waste industry waited for new guidance to emerge from the Government and the regulators, following a long period of slow progress in dealing with problems in that sector. Last year saw the publication of new guidance on Safe Disposal of Clinical Waste from the HSE and the Environment Agency and this has now been supplemented by guidance from the IWM on Healthcare Waste Management and Minimisation.
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