The COVID-19 pandemic has unarguably taken a drastic toll on us, causing millions of deaths within a year worldwide. That said, the death toll isn’t the only concern it raised among us. It has also led to an enormous increase in medical and hazardous waste generation. Almost every health facility — hospitals, clinics, isolation rooms, you name it — is now overburdened with safe handling and disposing of such waste generated during COVID-19 inpatient care. So much so that they are in urgent need of concrete custom medical waste plans and assistance from waste removal companies to combat th ..read more

Those who are involved in the medical industry would know how important an issue medical waste is. Estimates show that medical waste is continuously increasing with each passing year in the US. On an average, a hospital bed in the US is generating between 13 to 23 pounds of medical waste every day. Now, you can imagine the number of medical waste being produced all over the states. Since medical waste is a huge concern in the US, there are many federal and state laws pertaining to its management. For instance, red trash bags are used to keep medical or biohazardous waste in any medical facilit ..read more

There is not a single medical facility in the world that does not produce medical waste. As a matter of fact, many companies too produce a lot of unsafe medical waste. This makes it critical for us to manage medical hazardous waste in the most safest and practical manner. Yes, it is true that pharmaceutical companies have to produce medical products and medical facilities need to use them to safe patients’ lives. But we all need to understand one thing, which is that we all have a common obligation to safe our environment as well from all the dangerous medical waste. In this blog, we will tell ..read more

The pandemic put a lot of things in perspective for many aspects. Medical professionals and other healthcare employees came under a whole new light with terms such as “frontline workers” and “essential” becoming being used more conventionally to denote them. With the state generating over 6 million tons of medical waste annually, the pandemic definitely worsened things for medical waste management. As per the U.S. Waste Management Market Outlook 2027 forecast, the situation will only get worse in the oncoming years. What do the major organizations have to say? Major health regulatory agencies ..read more

Most of us have been to a clinic or hospital at some point in our lives. Even the smallest of these healthcare facilities use many pharmaceuticals per day. But, where does all of this pharmaceutical waste go? Let’s first take a look at what pharmaceutical waste is. Pharmaceutical Waste Pharmaceutical waste is far from the regular waste that you see every day at your home. It is quite harmful and therefore, special measures are used to dispose of it. It includes different types of waste generated in hospitals, clinics, or any other medical facility. In many places, this waste is usually drained ..read more