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Plantation Bio-medical waste includes used and discarded medical supplies. These wastes often contain hazardous pathogens, which can cause a hazardous disease. Bio-medical waste disposal is important if we want to protect against the possibility of attracting one of these hazardous diseases.
Bio-medical waste includes wastes from labs. These can be tissue, bone, blood and blood products, live and attenuated vaccines, culture stocks, pathological waste from humans or animals (only if the pathogen can be harmful to humans), as well as contaminated disposables such as hospital gowns, surgical gloves, gauze’s and wound dressings. To cut the story short, since listing all of the items that can be biomedical waste would take probably three or four of these articles, basically anything that has been exposed to blood or body liquids is a viable candidate for medical waste management Plantation.
Let’s talk about the sources and how bio-medical waste disposal works in professional environments and at home.
Professional Environments
Of course, the biggest produces of medical wastes are health care facilities. Hospitals, clinics, laboratories, even dentist and doctor’s offices and ambulances, generate literal tons of biomedical waste. Every time we get our blood or urine sample tested, we add a little bio-medical waste to the already large pile of it waiting to be shipped to a medical waste management facility that the hospital or clinic is working with.
Biomedical waste is considered hazardous, so health care facilities must follow very strict rules and procedures when it comes to bio-medical waste disposal. In fact, unless they are eager to be publicly humiliated in a court, hospitals and other medical facilities must take both federal and the laws of their state regarding medical waste management very, very seriously. Government agencies such as EPA and OSHA have little tolerance with those that don’t follow their rules and guidelines.
Bio-Medical Waste Disposal at Home
Even though the majority of medical wastes come from various health care facilities, they are not the only ones that produce it. A person giving himself or herself injections at home (for instance for diabetes) also produces, albeit at a much lower amount, bio-medical waste.
One of the problems of bio-medical waste disposal at home is that there are no clear rules and guidelines as to how an individual should do it. Mostly, people who use needles at home don’t even know that much about the danger they are causing by flinging their used needles and syringes in nearby dumpsters. The fault, however, can’t be put solely on them, as there is a clear lack of information about proper medical waste management at home for, say, someone from Plantation, Florida.
Storage and Disposal
Bio-medical waste has to be disposed of in designated red bags that have a bio-hazard sing on them. Sharps (needles and other medical instruments that are designed to cut or pierce) must first be put in leak-proof and puncture-resistant containers and then in the waste bags.
Most states in the U.S have at least one Plantation bio-medical waste disposal company that they can call to come and pickup their medical waste and dispose of it.
