Thursday, February 22, 2018

The Right Approach To Medical Waste Management

By Karen White


Governments, companies and individuals are struggling with the issue of proper disposal of unwanted products. Toxic and non-bio degradable refuse like plastic, glass and radioactive can cause severe and longtime effects both to the environment and on human health. It's therefore a great concern for different government agents and individuals to come up with effective ways of medical waste management. Below are some of the ways.

Reducing Refuse generation- This is a key method to handle the refuse of products from various industries. It is one of the effective ways among others that can quickly reduce the amount of refuse products in our environment. This can effective through shutting down some of the industries which generate products like plastics bags. By doing this, the number of plastics bags produced to the community will be greatly reduced.

Reusing of Products- This is a process of making use of flitters into useful products. For instance, products made of aluminum, paper, glass and plastics can easily be reused. It is of great importance to reuse the by-products instead of making new products which will fill the environment with fritter away. However, establishing a recycled company is highly costly thus need time and enough capital.

Burning- This involves combustion of the refuse to their base components which result to reduced volume and the production heat. The produced heat can be tapped to heat steam and run turbines which is used to generate energy. It can also be used for cooking at domestic level. The ash produced from organic wastes can be used to reduce the acidity of soil hence improving agricultural produce. This method is also less expensive.

Decomposition- This is among the useful ways of managing refuse. The refuse is dump into a garbage pit and allowed to decompose for long period of time. After decomposition the refuse can be used for farming since it is rich in nutrients. The process requires patience since it is time consuming and it also require large piece of land. However, the process is used for only biodegradable waste products.

Sanitary Landfill- This method involves throwing by products to a landfill that is legally prepared for waste. The landfill is prepared by the lining which creates a blockade between the ground water and the misuse products. Additionally, the lining prevents the toxic chemicals from entering the water zone. Non-porous soil is recommended to this method since it is vulnerable to allow toxics chemicals into the water.

Ocean and Sea Dumping- This involves disposal of both solid, liquid and chemical wastes to water bodies such as Oceans and sea. Refuse with high potential of harming humans such as radioactive material is mostly disposed this way. However, these methods pose harmful for aquatic life since it deprives the Oceans of important nutrients.

Every industry can select one or two of these techniques depending on what they manufacture. For instance, plastic bags company can choose the recycling method of managing their refuse. Management should come up with a way of treating chemical which are discharge to the sea so that it can be harmless to the sea creatures.




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