enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Sharps waste - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_waste

   A sharps container is specially designed for safe disposal of sharps waste. Hard plastic containers known as sharps containers are used to safely dispose of hypodermic needles and other sharp medical instruments, such as IV catheters and disposable scalpels. They are often sealable and self-locking, as well as rigid, which prevents waste from ...

3. Biomedical waste - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_waste

   Sharpsmart Reusable Sharps Container. Disposal of this waste is an environmental concern, as many medical wastes are classified as infectious or biohazardous and could potentially lead to the spread of infectious disease.

4. Drug disposal - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_disposal

   Medication waste from this source can be from over prescribing of drugs from healthcare providers, hospital labs, expired drugs, opened drug containers and partially used medications. [5] Furthermore, these wastes can include materials, such as syringes, vials, IV bags, and tubing that contain excess drugs or contaminated in the process of ...

5. Stericycle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stericycle

   Stericycle was founded in 1989 by Dr. James Sharp based on his business plan to address the Syringe Tide, where hypodermic needles and other medical waste washed up to the shores of New York and New Jersey. The Syringe Tide led to the Medical Waste Tracking Act, signed in 1988, establishing regulated medical waste management as an industry. [10]

6. Low-level radioactive waste policy of the United States

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level_radioactive...

   Some of the materials LLW consists of are: "gloves and other protective clothing, glass and plastic laboratory supplies, machine parts and tools, and disposable medical items that have come in contact with radioactive materials". [2] Waste is generally categorized as high level waste (HLW) and low-level waste (LLW).

7. Kidney dish - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_dish

   Kidney dishes made from stainless steel, cardboard and enamelled iron Stainless-steel kidney dish Stack of disposable pulp kidney dishes, stored in a drawer. A kidney dish (British English) or emesis basin (American English) is a shallow basin with a kidney-shaped base and sloping walls used in medical and surgical wards to receive soiled dressings and other medical waste.