The Bloodborne Pathogens Control Program is designed to minimize personal exposure to bloodborne pathogens. These guidelines describe precautions that must be taken by Bates College personnel whose ...

A PIL was filed in Calcutta High Court by a group of social activists in September 2023, containing serious allegations regarding biomedical waste trafficking in Bengal. The PIL said that a private ...

Wastes from hospitals, laboratories, human and animal clinics are considered hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Non-hazardous includes beddings, linens, bandages, and even waste from the kitchen. In ...

168 hospitals and 17 waste treatment facilities in state found to be in violation of biomedical waste management rules in last 1 year; unscientific dumping rampant in absence of monitoring mechanism, ...

38% of biomedical waste generated in state left untreated Karnataka has a gap of more than 28,000 kg per day in the treatment of bio-medical waste (BMW), according to official estimates. The total BMW ...

In August 1987, the beaches of the United States witnessed a chilling phenomenon dubbed the “Syringe Tide.” Used syringes and other medical waste, such as blood vials and body tissues, began appearing ...

Union minister for science and technology Dr Jitendra Singh will formally launch an automated biomedical waste conversion rig that can disinfect pathogenic biomedical waste such as blood, urine, ...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Civic authorities have imposed a Rs 25,000 fine on a private hospital located on the Railway Station Road for dumping biomedical waste in the open. Local residents had ...

Residents of Govandi-Mankhurd-Deonar, the city’s poorest and most-suffering ward, devastated as environmental clearance to shift Mumbai’s only biomedical waste plant to Raigad is rejected Lakhs of ...

KOCHI: Kochi corporation’s new initiative to address the growing problem of sanitary and special care waste disposal -- biomedical waste treatment plant -- is expected to be commissioned in September.