Disposing of COVID-19 medical waste puts an increasing strain on our waste and recycling systems. One problem arises when people try to recycle masks, which cannot be recycled traditionally. Private ...
ITHACA, N.Y. – Under the intensity of a prolonged pandemic, the world finds an ever-growing and seemingly never-ending waste stream of used surgical masks, plastic face shields, and medical gloves and ...
A new World Health Organization (WHO) report shared on Tuesday warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to tens of thousands of tons of medical waste, adding considerable strain on health ...
Northwell's Core Laboratory at the Center for Advanced Medicine (CFAM) will use Envetec GENERATIONS® 1 technology to sustainably treat over 500,000 pounds of regulated medical waste annually onsite.
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LONDON, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste that is ...
Countless gloves, syringes and vaccine vials have been used as the world continues to fight COVID-19. Now the United Nations' World Health Organization says there's another problem resulting from the ...
Beau Wangtrakuldee wanted to make the medical supply market safer for professionals and more sustainable for the planet. That’s what led her to launch AmorSui, her New York City-based personal ...
GENEVA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the COVID-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human ...