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Medical waste management North Miami Beach does not begin and end with its disposal. Before medical waste removal from the hospital or other health care facility in North Miami Beach can be done, this waste also needs to be sorted out, disinfected and packaged.

At the same time, medical waste removal in North Miami Beach should not be executed in any way that is dangerous to the environment and public health, or poses a threat in any other way. Because of this, we need to fully comprehend what happens with medical waste once our hospital or lab or an outside medical waste management company disposes of it.

How is Medical Waste bio-medical?
EPA Environmental Protection Agency) at first included medical wastes into its MWTA (Medical Waste Tracking Act) and RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act). Initially, medical waste was included in the EPA’s demonstration program. When MWTA and RCRA programs expired at the end of the last century (1999), most states put their own medical waste management programs, based on the EPA model.

Hazardous Medical Waste Removal
Medical wastes are classified as solid wastes under RCRA regulations and guidelines. However, they may also be considered as hazardous if they meet certain characteristics.

If medical waste is characterized as hazardous, it requires a very different way of disposal from standard medical waste. In that case, according to RCRA regulations, such waste needs to be treated as an RCRA sub-part C hazardous waste. What this means is that such waste has to be followed from the hospital it originated from, throughout its transportation and finally to the facility where it will be stored, treated and where its disposal will be executed.

Non-Hazardous Medical Waste Removal
Medical waste not belonging in the category “hazardous” can safely be disposed of according to RCRA sub-part D. However, non-hazardous waste still needs to undergo treatment and disposal that will render it non-infectious.

Incineration and Other Methods of Medical Waste Removal
The most commonly used method of medical waste disposal is incineration. A large percentage of medical waste, about 90%, is destroyed through this method, including in North Miami Beach.

However, there are other North Miami Beach medical waste treatment and disposal technologies. Such technologies include: steam sterilization, chemical treatments, electro-pyrolysis and microwaving.