There is a lot to be gained by going green, especially when it comes to hospitals and bio-medical waste removal in Broward.
Of course, it is not like you can simply wave a magic wand and “puff”, you are no longer producing biohazardous waste. There are three areas that you need to focus on if you want your health care facility to be “green”. These are:
1. The building you are treating you patient in
2. Cleaning chemicals you are using
3. And, of course, bio-medical waste removal.
Bio-Medical Waste Removal and its Role in “Going Green”
Of all these three, bio-medical waste removal is perhaps the biggest issue. There are many studies that have tried, more or less successfully to explain the reasons and benefits of medical waste disposal. For example, one of them shows that health care facilities in the United States generate more than 6,500 tons of medical waste PER DAY. Of course, only less than half that amount is actually biohazardous. Most hospital waste is simply paper, plastic, food or other non-hazardous material. The problem lies in materials and substances such as blood, body fluids, contaminated waste, pathological waste and similar. These contain, or may contain infectious materials that can harm an individual that comes into contact with them and even transmit hazardous diseases.
The put a stop (more or less) to infectious wastes and the dangers that come from them, you need to make sure that your employees are properly trained and educated in identifying and handling medical wastes. But this, very often, may not be enough. To really ensure that you are doing the things right way, you need to hire a bio-medical waste removal company to handle and dispose of medical waste for you.
Did this solve your infectious waste problem? Not really. The question is, what kind of a medical waste management company do you hire. Not all of them are the same, of course. Most companies dealing with medical waste disposal still use incinerators to destroy infectious waste. This is an outdated treatment method and you should strive to find a company that uses a more eco-friendly and financially viable method than cremating your waste. With a bit of research on the subject, you should be able to find one that suits you with ease.
Finally, when we are talking about a hospital “going green” not everything is about medical waste management. To this day many have still not switched to renewable energy sources and certain hospitals are using toxic chemicals for cleaning, thus indirectly harming their employees and, of course patients. You have to put an end to this.
You can make a lot of difference with just a few small changes in how you run your medical care facility. You should know that you are doing the right thing whether it’s something as simple as using better chemical cleaning products, or creating a whole new bio-medical waste removal Broward plan.
