clinical waste

Healthcare providers ‘too laid back’ when it comes to clinical waste

More robust systems are needed for the management of clinical waste with many healthcare providers "too laid back" when it comes to dealing with the matter, according to a recent report.

Renewable energy makes powerful progress

Sustainable energy is advancing rapidly across the board, from well developed landfill gas power generation, to energy from waste incineration and newer technology including energy, wind and wave power and less sophisticated wood burning. LAWE Editor Alexander Catto reports on recent developments in this dynamic sector

Razorback provides transport solution for Cleanaway

A leading waste management company has added the Razorback ground-loading vehicle to its fleet to give operators greater ease of use. The Razorback ground-loading vehicle is now being used to collect and forward clinical waste for Serviceteam, a subsidiary of Cleanaway in Redruth, Cornwall. The ground loading system eliminates the need for trailers, forklifts, tail lifts or ramps, when transporting clinical waste.

How has business behaved?

Darcy Products' John Proctor on environmental performance in 2002

Raising the temperature

A technology for the safe, economic and environmentally friendly disposal of a wide range of waste has been developed by Compact Power Holdings. Materials such as sewage sludge, clinical waste, waste from vegetable oil refining, tyre crumb and coal slurry are converted into energy and other usable products through sequential pyrolysis, gasification and high temperature oxidation.

Guidance through a risky business

Simon Pollard and Phil Longhurst of Cranfield University discuss how adopting an environmental risk assessment is becoming a necessity for industry.

Ceramics avoid dioxin reformation

Worcester-based Caldo Environmental Engineering has supplied a complete pollution control system employing ceramic filtration technology for a mixed general and clinical waste incinerator to be installed in the Middle East.

Technically speaking

WWT's technical editor, Peter Minting asks the industry a difficult question

EU: Environment Council approves single waste incineration directive proposals

EU Environment Ministers have agreed to Parliament proposals for a single directive covering the incineration of all categories of waste across the Community.

News in brief

UK news briefs

Controlling gaseous emissions

Good combustion control and careful waste stream selection have a key role in reducing gaseous emissions, but end-of-pipe treatment is still an essential part of the solution. Robin Holder, Tal Golesworthy and Peter Davis of Environmental Development Technology look at the available treatment options.

Fired up for energy recovery

In part two of our seven-part Waste to Energy series, Robin Holder, Tal Golesworthy and Peter Davies of consultancy Environmental Development Technology explore the basics of burning waste with a look at current and future developments in firing systems.

Resource recovery: the burning issue

Scientists, engineers and economists have long pondered the issues of using waste to produce energy, but mainly in a municipal context. In the first of our seven-part series, Robin Holder, Tal Golesworthy and Peter Davies of consultants Environmental Development Technology, explore the potential of Waste to Energy for industry, looking at where we are, where we have come from and where, if the conditions are right, we might be going.

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