Friday, April 11, 2014

Following The Proper Medical Waste Disposal

By Anita Ortega


There are different ways of treating medical wastes. Medical waste disposal Florida has follows different treatment processes like incineration, mechanical or chemical disinfection, irradiation or microwave. After following any of the treatment types, the wastes can already be disposed in a general landfill together with other normal trashes. Before, these procedures are exclusively done by the hospital management but as time goes by, since they are using different tools and equipments and it can take too much of their time and man power, they already hire someone from private sectors to do it for them. These people are the ones who will be collecting, treating and disposing the wastes.

Following one procedure is not enough. No matter how experienced you are with the whole task, people responsible for proper waste disposal double check everything. They need to be sure that it is already safe to avoid infections. It may cause further damages to the environment or the people nearest to the site where the garbage has been disposed. Double checking it is a way to be able to detect any kinds of viruses that might occur due to improper or wrong way of treating it. Medical waste disposal Florida has different ways of disposing them.

One of the ways to be able to mix this wastes with the ordinary ones would be incinerating it. This process is done by burning the wastes until it becomes ashes. This process is easy and the wastes does not have to be segregated anymore. Although it is somehow the best way for treating medical trashes, it can cause pollution to the environment.

The waste goes through the machine on a belt. Because most of this kinds of trashes can be incinerated, they do not have to be segregated at all. They can go through the machine altogether. This procedure can reduce the volume of the entire wastes, sterilize it, and eliminate the need for another pre processing procedure.

The disadvantage that this treatment has is pollution. Although it eliminates the chances of infection, it contributes to the destruction of the environment. This is because of the gasses that it lets out.

It does so because of the toxic gasses that it is producing while the burning process is being done. It will undergo emission testing but it still would not suffice to avoid pollution. The major reasons of this would be the production of dioxins and furans during the whole treatment process.

Autoclave is done through sterilizing the trashes. This is somehow a way of recycling used equipment by steaming and has also been done for a century already. Everything that undergo autoclave also has to undergo a process called compaction. This is done by shredding right after the treatment so that it can longer be recognized and can not be re used for any purposes.

When both procedures has been done, the wastes are already ready to be mixed with the normal human garbage. Autoclave on the other hand needs segregation. Pathological garbage can not undergo the procedure as it could have cytotoxic and radioactive materials.

Every state has different ways and rules in disposing garbage from hospitals and other medical institutions. They set proper requirements before allowing them to be disposed in the usual site where other human garbage are being dumped. The right way of disposing these kinds of trashes must be followed for the safety of everybody including our environment.




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