Medical Waste and Other Innovative Waste Management Solutions to Keep Your Facilities Compliant and Safe

 Medical waste is made up of items that have come into contact with human or animal bodily fluids. Gloves, wipes, dressings, and towels with blood or bodily fluid stains, as well as any other material from medical care, are also included. Medical waste includes any infectious material generated by hospitals, laboratories, medical research facilities, nursing homes, veterinary clinics, dentist and home healthcare, and physicians' offices during medical research, diagnosis, testing, treatment, or immunization of humans.

Examples of medical waste include:

  •          Human or animal tissue created during the medical procedures,
  •          Soaked gowns and gloves,
  •          Biomedical waste
  •          Cultures of infectious diseases
  •          Discarded vaccines
  •         Waste produced due to communicable diseases

Proper waste management is important

Medical waste collection is required by law in Australia because improper collection and disposal can pose a number of health risks to healthcare workers, waste workers, and the general public. Housekeepers and janitors are also at risk when dealing with medical waste, as contaminations containing dangerous viruses and bacteria can infect them. If regular waste collection methods are used, discarded needles, syringes, and sharps can break open in transit and end up in recycling facilities.

Poisoning, pollution, microorganisms, radiation burns, and other dangers are posed by hazardous medical waste. Furthermore, improperly treated medical waste, when disposed of in landfills, can contaminate both drinking water and the environment. Everyone in the area will be at risk of waterborne and other diseases as a result of this.

Observing diligence in waste management

Medical waste management requires vigilance in order to avoid a variety of health outcomes associated with poor practices, such as exposure to toxic substances and infectious agents. Solo Resource Recovery is a reputable waste management company that provides comprehensive waste management solutions, including medical waste collection and treatment. Solo waste management has the necessary capabilities, equipment, and a well-trained crew to provide you with the best and most compliant medical waste collection and treatment services. Solo is a full-service, environmentally responsible medical waste collection, transport, treatment, and disposal company.

Some of the pathological waste types dealt with by Solo Resource Recovery for its medical waste collection include:

Solid waste: It includes non-sharp items contaminated with any bodily fluids or biological material. Examples of solid waste collection items include gloves, towels, cultures, and pipettes.

Liquid waste: It includes bulk quantities of blood or bodily fluids.

Sharps medical waste: These include any materials that can puncture or pierce through skin and are contaminated with transmissible biological material. Examples of items dealt with medical waste collection services include syringes, needles, scalpels, tubes, and broken glasses.

Solo Resource Recovery’s medical waste collection services are also available for solid, liquid and sharps waste. Other waste collection services offered by Solo Resource Recovery include:

  •          Objects with sharps, such as a needle, syringe, and other objects with points capable of causing injury
  •          Scalpels and other discarded surgical instruments
  •          Soiled or blood-soaked bandages
  •          Cytotoxic waste 
  •          IV catheters
  •          Genotoxic waste
  •          Radioactive waste
  •          Cultures, stocks, and swabs
  •          Pharmaceuticals

Disposing of medical waste in the EPA- approved sites

Solo Resource Recovery provides specially designed bags for the specific requirements of medical waste collection, ranging in size from 1.5 L to 120L, with many more capacity sizes in between. It is a legal requirement to collect and dispose of medical waste in a safe manner. Solo waste management company provides medical waste collection services in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. Medical waste is only disposed of at EPA-approved sites by Solo Waste Management. Office paper, sweeping waste, and kitchen waste from healthcare facilities are still considered medical waste, despite the fact that they are not considered hazardous and thus are not regulated.

Solo Resource Recovery provides licensed medical waste collection services that use special containers. The company treats medical waste through a variety of compliant methods, such as:

Incineration: This method is often used for the treatment of pathological waste such as body parts and recognizable tissues.

Microwaving: High-powered equipment is used that opens up the waste to normal landfill disposal or incineration afterward.

Autoclaving: This method of medical waste treatment uses a steam sterilisation method that renders biohazardous waste into the non-infectious one. The medical waste collection service can dispose of the medical waste treated with autoclaving into the landfill. The autoclaved medical waste can also be incinerated under less-stringent regulations.

More waste management solutions

 Other waste management services provided by Solo Resource Recovery include industrial bins, document destruction, liquid waste, commercial waste, and more. Solo's waste management services include emergency response and spills, subsurface engineering and maintenance, cable and pipe location, geotech, and pavement investigation, among others. The waste management company also provides waste management technology to municipalities as well as septic tank services to residents.           

Solo Waste Management provides medical waste collection and other waste management services in a variety of locations throughout Australia, including Adelaide, Melbourne, Lonsdale, Murwillumbah, Perth, and others. Please contact Solo Resource Recovery's customer service to find out if the company's medical waste collection and other waste management services are available at your location.
Location: Australia

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