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Hospitals and other healthcare facilities produce vast amounts of waste every day leading to the need for Miami Medical Waste Companys. Some of this waste is bio-hazardous in nature and needs to be disposed of properly, especially in the case of sharps waste.
If you’ve ever visited a hospital or a clinic and had the nurse inject you with a needle for, let’s say flu, you likely noticed that she immediately tossed it in a nearby box labeled “biohazard”. This is a proper way to dispose of sharps waste. On the other hand, if the nurse would simply throw the used needle in a trash can, the personnel responsible for removing waste would be in danger of injury and even infection due to the needle she just used on you.
Normally, needles, syringes and similar objects are used only once and immediately thrown away. From the hospital or other healthcare facility, they are taken to the nearby medical waste management company, or they are picked up by their driver. Once at the scene, any medical sharps waste is then usually incinerated or destroyed in some other way, such as discarded in a dustbin or landfill away from the local population to reduce health risks.
But what if there was a safe way to reuse all this material? Today we are getting more and more aware that incineration is not the best method for waste disposal. The problem with it is that it releases dangerous toxins in the air, not to mention bad odors that the neighborhood has to deal with. On the other hand, landfills and dumpsters are not the most effective way of disposing of waste as they are often used by scavengers and attract animals.
Because of all this, medical waste recycling is emerging quickly as an option. It provides a perfect solution for medical waste generators to not only dispose of the waste in a safe and effective way, but also to reuse it for a good purpose.
The recycling process begins with collecting needles, injections and other sharps from special containers in which they are thrown by medical staff after being used. Since there is always a danger of injury and infection, these containers are not opened and are sterilized to prevent bacteria and diseases spreading. Once the containers have been properly sterilized, they are shredded.
The next phase of recycling medical waste is to separate materials from one another. Metal materials are then used for recycling, while plastic is palletized to be later used for creating sharps waste containers and for injection molding.
Of course, sharp waste is just one type of medical waste that can be used for recycling. Think about the positives and the opportunities this could bring both in economical terms and in terms of protecting the environment from landfills overflowing with sharp and potentially dangerous medical waste. No other method of Miami medical waste management offers the benefits that recycling can.
