Handling medical waste places material processing employees and truck drivers at Greentree Solid Waste in jeopardy, officials with the garbage-collection coalition said. Medical waste, particularly needles or sharps, can spread infectious disease and can injure workers. The contaminated load, appearing to be used diabetes sharps, was reloaded at the Greentree Recycling Center and transported the same day to the Otero-Greentree Regional landfill, the officials reported.
Medical waste consists of sharps, medicines and controlled substances and it is considered a “special waste.” Handling medical waste carefully is very important to prevent someone from getting pricked or sick, to ensure medicines and controlled substances do not contaminate the drinking water supply and to prevent the spread of infectious viral diseases. The Presbyterian Healthcare system that operates the hospital in Ruidoso and the health clinics in rural Lincoln County uses an approved medical waste disposal company, Stericycle Inc. of Albuquerque, to pick up and dispose of medical waste in a designated landfill in Bernalillo County. Hypodermic needles or "sharps" can go in the trash, but they must be in a puncture proof container with a cap and be properly labeled. Try using a detergent bottle with a screw-on cap and label the bottle with “sharps” or “needles,” officials advised. Once the bottle is full and the cap secured, place it in a household trash can. Do not put the bottle in a blue recycling bin. Or, properly dispose of sharps or hypodermic needles through your healthcare provider. Medicines such as pills, vitamins, prescription drugs, and any liquids, including cough syrup and eye drops, should not be put or poured down the drain or toilet. It is very difficult for a septic tank or waste water treatment plant to remove many of the chemicals that are in pharmaceutical drugs. The contaminated water can make its way into creeks, rivers, surface and ground water supplies. Medicine should be crushed, wetted, bagged, and disposed of in the trash so it cannot be used. Heavily regulated prescription or non-prescription drugs, including controlled substances, should be treated like medicine and never put down the drain or in the trash. Controlled substances should be crushed, wetted, bagged, and disposed of in the trash so it cannot be used. A local pharmacy or healthcare provider may take back old prescriptions. Kingtiger can supply a new solution on disposal of medical waste, converting medical waste into energy, you can clink there to get more information,
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