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RECORD NUMBER: 67 OF 94Main Title | Non-incineration medical waste treatment technologies in Europe : a resource for hospital administrators, facility managers, health care professionals, environmental advocates, and community members. | |||||||||||
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Publisher | Health Care Without Harm Europe, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2004 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 60859731 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Health facilities--Waste disposal ; Medical wastes | |||||||||||
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Collation | 40 p. ; 28 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | "June 2004." |
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Contents Notes | Why non-incineration technologies are preferable to incineration -- Incinerators emit toxic air pollutants -- Incineration ash is potentially hazardous -- Incinerators are expensive -- Incinerators must meet new emission limits -- International Convention on the Elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) -- Waste reduction and segregation - the basic concept for the introduction of non-incineration technologies -- Medical waste categories -- Non-incineration technologies - general categories and processes -- Low-heat thermal processes -- Chemical processes -- Irradiative processes -- Biological processes -- Mechanical processes -- Low-heat thermal technologies: autoclaves, microwaves and other steam based systems -- Systems based on hot steam application - autoclaves, retorts -- Microwave systems -- Low-heat thermal technologies - dry heat systems -- Chemical based technologies -- Biological systems -- Small sharps treatment units -- Factors to consider in selecting a non-incineration technology -- Economics of treatment technologies -- Non-incineration treatment technologies in Europe - case studies -- The Centre Hospitaliere in Roubaix, France -- Hospital waste management in Portugal -- Ireland has decided to treat hospital waste by a non-incineration technology -- Slovenia has treated infectious waste using hot steam mobile units since 1995. |