Clinical Waste Management & Disposal Services

Clinical Waste Disposal

Offensive and Hazardous waste requires handling in different ways and a waste expert should be consulted prior to doing this, Materials Recovery can help you with this.

We can take care of the following:

Sharps

We can provide containers and collections of your non-infectious sharps. These will be housed in sharps boxes with orange or yellow lids containing sufficient absorbent material to retain any free-flowing liquids. EWC (not 18 01 03).

Offensive Waste

Offensive waste is non-infectious solid offensive healthcare waste including non-infectious swabs and dressings, plaster casts, stoma bags, incontinence pads, nappies, sanitary waste from healthcare and disposable medical material. We can provide yellow sacks and collections of these as required.

Hazardous Waste

Infectious solid clinical waste can contain swabs and dressings from infectious disease, contaminated waste from treatment areas and laboratory cultures contained in orange sacks or weva bins. We can provide both orange bags, weva bins and collections to suit your business.

Cytotoxic Waste

We can provide yellow bags with purple stripes or containers with purple lids for cytotoxic or cytostatic medicines (or unsegregated medicines), contaminated sharps, swabs and dressings that have been used for chemotherapy or other cell treatments.

Amalgam Waste from Dental Care

We can dispose of precious waste from mechanical treatment of dental waste containing dangerous substances used with dental care processes. These chemicals are present in fixer and developer treatments. We can provide gypsum waste containers to dispose of your gypsum-based waste.

Clinical Waste Management & Disposal Services

Clinical waste can pose severe threats to humans and the environment if not managed properly and safely. That’s why businesses that produce this type of waste need the services of an expert and experienced clinical waste management and disposal company to eliminate the threat.

What is Clinical Waste?

Clinical waste is caused by activities in a laboratory or various healthcare facilities. Clinical waste requires careful and separate management from other daily waste types due to its nature. Therefore, it needs to be stored, handled, and managed appropriately by experts. If left unattended, such waste can pose a significant threat to human health and the environment as a whole. As a preventive measure, various legislations have been put in place to help regulate clinical waste storage and its removal and disposal. That’s to ensure that you handle each stage of your business’s clinical waste safely.

Clinical Waste Management

Clinical waste management involves all the processes and professional methods experts use to store, remove, and handle different kinds of clinical waste.

Clinical waste management experts have a wide range of solutions regarding how they plan the removal and handling of any clinical waste. Each process focuses on ensuring that the clinical waste is handled in the safest way required by law.