Health-care waste management in India is receiving greater attention due to recent regulations (the Biomedical Wastes (Management & Handling) Rules‚ 1998). The prevailing situation is analyzed covering various issues like quantities and proportion of different constituents of wastes‚ handling‚ treatment and disposal methods in various health-care units (HCUs). The waste generation rate ranges between 0•5 and 2•0 kg per bed per day. It is estimated that annually about 0•33 million tonne of waste are generated
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Pollution‚ contamination of Earth’s environment with materials that interfere with human health‚ the quality of life‚ or the natural functioning of ecosystems (living organisms and their physical surroundings). Although some environmental pollution is a result of natural causes such as volcanic eruptions‚ most is caused by human activities. Sidebars | SIDEBAR | Climate Change 2001:The Scientific Basis | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an international group of scientists
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Food Waste? Too valuable to waste! According to statistics from the Environmental Protection Department‚ in Hong Kong‚ solid waste generated daily weighs around 17000 tones‚ of which around 30% is organic matter (2700 tones) which is roughly equal to 120 double-deck buses in size. Compared this to the US where‚ revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency‚ only 12% of waste stream was scrap of food in 2005. Extra care in disposal is required for these putrescible wastes‚ otherwise nuisance
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Industrial waste is a type of waste produced by industrial activity‚ such as that of factories‚ mills and mines. It has existed since the outset of the industrial revolution.[1] Much industrial waste is neither hazardous nor toxic‚ such as waste fiber produced by agriculture and logging.[2] Toxic waste‚ chemical waste‚ Industrial solid waste and Municipal solid waste are designations of industrial waste. Sewage treatment can be used to clean water tainted with industrial waste. Penalties and fees
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E-Waste Management in Pakistan Zaigham Abbas Technical Officer (Chemicals) Ministry of Environment Government of Pakistan Regional Workshop on WEEE/E-Waste Management‚ 6 - 9 July 2010‚ Osaka‚ Japan 1 INTRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATION Ministry of Environment is responsible for National Environment Policy‚ Planning and International Environment Coordination. 2 PAKISTAN: STATUS OF ENVIRONMENT Constitution of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Council (PEPC) headed by the Prime
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Project about Improper Waste Management Investigatory Project about Improper Waste Management 1.0 Introduction The working title of the study is initially drafted as: Investigatory Project about Improper Waste Management. In particular‚ the research will focus on how understanding the nature and dynamics of waste management could effectively lead to effective waste management. The paper discusses in detail the research proposal of the topic. Waste management is the polite
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(2012) Need of Biomedical Waste Management System in Hospitals - An Emerging issue - A Review PRAVEEN MATHUR‚ SANGEETA PATAN* and ANAND S. SHOBHAWAT Department of Environmental Science‚ MDS University Ajmer - 305 009 (India). (Received: April 24‚ 2012; Accepted: May 27‚ 2012) ABSTRACT Medical care is vital for our life and health‚ but the waste generated from medical activities represents a real problem of living nature and human world. Improper management of waste generated in health care facilities
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Hospital waste management By Karthik Kesar P S Ramkumar K Genevious Daniel Introduction Hospital waste management is one of the most critical and yet underrated kind of waste management .The growing number of hospitals and the unhealthy eating habits of the people has contributed to the rising number of patients in hospitals. Wastes that are improperly disposed lead to spreading of infection. This will lead to the unhealthy society as a whole. Modern day societies place high importance
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INTRODUCTION Waste is an unavoidable by-product of most human activity. Economic development and rising living standards in the Asian and Pacific Region have led to increases in the quantity and complexity of generated waste‚ whilst industrial diversification and the provision of expanded health-care facilities have added substantial quantities of industrial hazardous waste and biomedical waste into the waste stream with potentially severe environmental and human health consequences. Waste is a general
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Municipal Solid Waste Management: Texas ENV/420 Municipal Solid Waste Management: Texas Long-term Costs & Benefit of Course of Action Municipal Solid Waste has a definition all its own. This means more than just trash; but rather what makes up all the bits and pieces of trash and garbage. Society‚ as a whole‚ tends to throw away almost anything that is no longer of value to them. However‚ the plastic‚ cardboard‚ paper‚ books‚ clothing‚ metals‚ foil products‚ and some glass items can be recycled
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