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What Does Clinical Waste Include?

Clinical waste is a specific type of waste that is typically produced by healthcare environments, like hospitals, health clinics, dental practices and research labs. It is a hazardous waste that needs to be disposed of correctly through a reliable, trusted clinical waste management company. This is because clinical waste can be a threat to anyone who comes in contact with it, putting them at risk of infection, disease or harm.

So, what does clinical waste include? Even though not all waste in healthcare settings is classed as clinical waste, a large portion of waste produced in these environments is clinical. Healthcare professionals need to spot clinical waste to keep everyone safe and follow the proper disposal of clinical waste protocols, protecting people and the environment. Common types of clinical waste can be:

Sharps Waste: This includes any item that can cut, pierce or puncture skin, such as syringes, needles, scalpels and other sharp items.
Pharmaceutical Waste: This type of waste is any unused or expired pharmaceutical products and drugs that aren’t cytotoxic or cytostatic.
Anatomical Waste: This means limbs, blood bags and waste material from biopsy procedures where tissues or tissue samples are taken.
Infectious Waste: This includes two categories of infectious waste for alternative treatments (PPE, dressings and IV tubing) and infectious waste for incineration (waste that is highly infectious because of secondary contamination).
Cytotoxic or Cytostatic Waste: This type of waste is any medicinal product that contains hazardous properties, like carcinogenic, being toxic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction.
Liquid Medicine Waste: This includes medicine delivered in a sharp container or package and unused or expired liquid medicine products.
Contaminated Lab Equipment: This waste is items that have been contaminated in a lab, such as lab tools and equipment like petri dishes, glass slides and cultures.

How Should Clinical Waste Be Disposed of?

Many people wonder, “How should clinical waste be disposed of?”, when they face this type of dangerous waste. Because of the threat this waste poses to people, it must be disposed of safely and securely by a licensed clinical waste management company, like Novus Environmental. Working with professionals ensures that your clinical waste remains secure and reduces the risk of contamination. You can get waste bags and containers to segregate your clinical waste to seal and lock it away, ensuring all harmful waste only stays in a designated area before collection. After segregating it, waste professionals can ensure proper disposal of clinical waste, no matter what form it is in!

Novus Environmental is here to deliver cost-effective, efficient and sustainable clinical waste disposal (and collection) of all your clinical waste streams. This refers to waste from both healthcare and non-healthcare environments that could pose the risk of infection, including swabs, bandages, sharps clinical waste, human and animal tissue, blood or bodily fluids and pharmaceutical waste. We carry out thorough clinical waste management to ensure that the waste is properly segregated in the appropriate waste stream. This allows us to correctly treat and dispose of your clinical waste, reducing the risk of harm to humans, animals and the environment.

Our Licensing/Accreditation for the Disposal of Clinical Waste

Due to the nature of clinical waste, we never take risks when it comes to patient or staff safety. This is why we have all the necessary licensing and accreditation to allow us to deliver the highest standards of staff safety and environmental and regulatory compliance. This includes ADR-qualified drivers and compliant vehicles to collect and transfer waste streams.

Our expertly trained waste consultants will work with you to complete a full site compliance clinical waste audit to identify and categorise the waste you are producing. From this, we will design a bespoke clinical waste collection plan to implement in your facility.

Clinical Waste Collections

Whether you have a small or large amount of waste you need to dispose of with our clinical waste solutions, we’ve got you covered. Using our diverse, mixed fleet of ADR-regulated specialised vehicles, we can provide anything from small bag collection services all the way up to large-scale multi-bin exchanges, ensuring we have an appropriate collection solution to suit your needs.

In order to help you manage your waste, we provide a variety of specialist products. This includes the following:

Yellow waste bags: For infectious or potentially infectious clinical waste that is contaminated with chemicals or pharmaceutical/medicinal waste.
Orange waste bags: For infectious or potentially infectious soft clinical waste that has been contaminated with blood/bodily fluids.
Tiger stripe waste bags: For offensive, non-infectious waste like nappies, incontinence pads, etc.
Yellow lidded sharps container in various sizes: For the storage and disposal of sharps containing or contaminated with medicinal products and their residues, such as needles used to give injections.
Orange lid sharps container in various sizes: For the storage and disposal of sharps that do not contain or are contaminated with medicinal products or their residues.
Purple lid sharps container in various sizes: For the storage and disposal of sharps contaminated with cytotoxic or cytostatic medicines.
Blue lid pharmaceutical container: For the disposal of pharmaceutical waste, including expired medicines, glass bottles, and vials.
Rigid cardboard containers: For the disposal of solid clinical and pharmaceutical waste due to their high-density polyethylene lining. Available in 25L and 50L sizes.
Lockable colour-coded waste wheelie bins: Available in 240 litres, 360 litres, 770 litres, and 1,100 litres.

The Process of Treating Clinical Waste

Different types of clinical waste require different modes of disposal; however, Novus Environmental is one of the few clinical waste management companies in the country using in-house autoclave technology to sterilise bagged clinical waste. Similarly, we provide a complete incineration service for all sharps and pharmaceutical waste.

All our clinical waste bins are UN-approved. We have our own fleet of vehicles for clinical waste collection and dedicated waste disposal facilities - this means that we can offer you compliant, fully trackable, and auditable end-to-end specialist clinical waste management solutions that will help you protect your business, your employees, and your clients.

The Sustainability of Our Commercial Sustainable Clinical Waste Disposal

In managing your clinical waste, we also work to minimise your carbon footprint. This is achieved via effective waste diversion, optimising your waste collection process, using energy-efficient transport, sustainable fully recycled waste receptacles, and green treatment methods. Additionally, our clinical waste audits and waste categorisation practices allow us to reduce the volume of waste.

Clinical Waste Disposal

To find out how Novus Environmental can help your company dispose of clinical waste email us or make an enquiry.

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Clinical Waste Disposal

What Does Clinical Waste Include?

How Should Clinical Waste Be Disposed of?

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Our Licensing/Accreditation for the Disposal of Clinical Waste

Clinical Waste Collections

The Process of Treating Clinical Waste

The Sustainability of Our Commercial Sustainable Clinical Waste Disposal

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