Pharmaceutical Waste Articles & Analysis
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The massive use of medicines and sanitary material (wipes, gloves or disposable masks) is one of the most devastating side effects of COVID-19 due to its environmental damage when its waste goes to the natural environment. What about all this pharmaceutical industry waste generated in these COVID years? ...
Some problems existing in the waste gas treatment of the pharmaceutical and chemical industry and the specific method to solve the waste gas treatment problem in the industry, of course, the industry is mainly the waste gas treatment problem of solvents: Problems existing in the treatment of solvent waste gas ...
“Contaminants of emerging concern” is a term generally used to describe potential water pollutants that aren’t monitored or regulated in the U.S., including ARGs, as well as hormones, personal care products, insecticides, and prescription and over-the-counter medications. Pharmaceutical wastes and other contaminants of emerging concern are ...
Recently proposed EPA regulation provides a streamlined approach for healthcare facilities to better manage their hazardous pharmaceutical waste. To prepare for these changes, healthcare facilities, including manufacturers, distributers, pharmacies and retailers of pharmaceutical products in the USA will need to make operational adjustments ...
In the past, medical waste was often mixed with municipal solid waste and disposed in residential waste landfills or improper treatment facilities. ...
Project Challenges: Ramsay Hospitals Support Service Managers had previously arranged their own waste removal solutions which created a large number of suppliers without the benefit of a buying consortium. Project Challenges continued: GPT recommended a total waste management solution using our buying power to drive down cost, improve efficiency of security and ...
In 2006, the annual American Hospital Association survey on hospitals reported there were nearly 950,000 hospital beds in the U.S.1 In Canada in 2005 the number of acute care hospital beds was approximately 103,000.2 Combined, there are over 1 million hospital beds in Canada and the U.S. Annual waste production in hospitals is about 2 tonnes per hospital bed, or about 2,000,000 ...