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Treatment Methods You Should Know About
How much do you really know about medical waste management Davie and especially about proper treatment methods for medical waste? If you are running a fledgling bio-medical waste removal company or you are on a brink of starting one and joining this industry, one of the first things that you should learn is how you can treat and dispose of medical waste. Hopefully, this short article will aid you in this.
First of all, let’s make one thing clear. Medical waste is not your average waste. This isn’t anything like household trash and you can’t simply fill waste bin and or a bag with bio-medical waste and toss it in a dumpster nearby. Medical waste can be hazardous in more than one way. The increased risk of infection or disease is one of them. Animals such as birds, rodents or insects simply love digging through trash and then spreading it around. Imagine if what would happen if they could do the same with infected waste.
Okay, maybe you don’t think that there is a high enough chance (I wouldn’t take any chance, but that maybe just me) that you can get infected courtesy of some animal digging through medical waste. Animals are not the only species that may have the need to forage through trash. A lot of humans have no other choice, but to do this. They certainly don’t have any kind of PPE (personal protective equipment) to secure their skin and are in a great risk of getting stabbed by a needle and infected by something nasty.
Autoclaving
Steam sterilization or autoclaving is today one of the most popular medical waste management Davie treatment methods. It works both if you intend to dispose of waste completely and destroy it, or if you want to reuse or recycle it. This method works by exposing solid medical waste to high pressure hot steam for a period of about 30 minutes. This is an average time, but it could go down to 15 or up to 60 minutes depending on the size of the autoclave machine, the amount of waste in it and the type of waste.
Incineration
Incineration has long been the most commonly used bio-medical waste treatment method, but other options are now gaining on it. It is very simple. Put any medical waste in an incineration machine, press the button and wait for the scorching heat from the furnace to do its part and turn anything solid into ash. It’s a really fast and effective method and certainly saves space, but it tends to pollute the atmosphere.
Chemical Disinfection
Another medical waste management Davie treatment method involves exposing previously grinded medical waste to a chemical disinfectant like chlorine bleach. Solid leftovers can then safely be disposed in a designated landfill, while liquid waste can be dropped into the sewage.
These were just the three most commonly and probably the most effective treatment methods of Davie bio-medical waste disposal. Of course, there are other methods that, in the given circumstances, can be more efficient or more cost-effective than these. These include gas sterilization, microwaving and irradiation.
