Jupiter, Florida Disposal of Medical Waste via Chemical Treatment

Jupiter, Florida disposal of medical waste can be done in one of the following five ways:

• Dumping medical waste in a designated, sanitary landfill (land disposal)
• Using large furnaces to burn solid medical waste into ash (incineration)
• Using steam and heat to destroy pathogens (autoclaving)
• Sterilizing biomedical waste using microwaves (microwave treatment)
• Using different chemicals to deactivate liquid medical waste (chemical treatment)

The main difference between chemical treatment and all the other types of Jupiter, Florida disposal of medical waste treatment options is that this type of biomedical waste treatment is used for liquid wastes, as opposed to solid medical waste as is the case with the other four methods.

What Compounds Can be Used in Chemical Treatment for Jupiter, Florida Disposal of Medical Waste?

As its name suggests, chemical treatment utilizes different chemicals and chemical compounds to deactivate or decontaminate certain wastes. Usually, the chemicals used for this purpose are chlorium, sodium hydroxide or calcium oxide, with chlorine being the most often one used.

When it comes to chemical treatment of medical waste using chlorine, its compound strips electrons from organic compounds like pathogenic microorganisms (it “oxidizes” them, in other words). In this case, the atmospheric oxygen works as the primary, or the original “oxidizer”. The atmospheric oxygen is used instead of the ordinary oxygen because the later one, although it is a powerful oxidizing agent, is also crucial for the survival of most organisms and we include most microorganisms found in biomedical waste here. As such, it is not a good candidate for being the original oxidizer in chemical treatment of medical waste.

The workaround for this problem lies in converting O₂ (oxygen) into O₃ (ozone) as this creates a more powerful oxidizer, which is toxic to most life forms, including pathogens in medical waste. Ozone can be created by passing an electric arc through normal oxygen gas and when it is used for Jupiter, Florida disposal of medical waste, it is very more than an adequate sterilizer and eliminates the probability of producing by-products that can be generated when using chlorine compounds. However, the downside of ozone is that it then becomes absolutely vital to ensure that no one gets exposed to it. Ozone is very harmful to the lungs.

Chlorine Can be Used as Chlorine Dioxide or Common Bleach

Chlorine can be used either in the form of chlorine dioxide, which is a more potent, but also more dangerous gas then the other form, or sodium hypochlorite (better known as common bleach).Both compounds used in chemical treatment are effective, don’t cost very much, and are readily available (especially common bleach, which can be found in nearly every household or building today).

The biggest and the most obvious problem with using chemical treatment for medical waste is the use of chemicals in those systems. Also, although they do turn biomedical waste non-infectious, these systems may create a whole different problem through chemical reactions and the products they generate through them. Because of this, chemical treatment is used mostly for on-site treatment and when the quantity of the waste is not very big.

Other than chlorine, alkaline agents such as sodium hydroxide (lye), and calcium oxide (quicklime), can also be used, as well as disinfectants such as peracetic acid and glutaraldehyde.

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