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    Executive Summary of Biomedical Waste Disposal

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    Biomedical waste is any waste containing infectious or potentially infectious materials generated from biological and medical sources like hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and veterinary facilities. Examples include blood, sharps, cultures, body parts, contaminated materials. Biomedical waste differs from normal trash or general waste and some other hazardous wastes. Improper disposal can spread infectious disease and negatively impact human health and the environment. Proper management of biomedical waste includes generation, handling, storage, treatment, transport, and disposal to protect workers, the public, and the environment from exposure.

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    Biomedical waste is any waste containing infectious or potentially infectious materials generated from biological and medical sources like hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and veterinary facilities. Examples include blood, sharps, cultures, body parts, contaminated materials. Biomedical waste differs from normal trash or general waste and some other hazardous wastes. Improper disposal can spread infectious disease and negatively impact human health and the environment. Proper management of biomedical waste includes generation, handling, storage, treatment, transport, and disposal to protect workers, the public, and the environment from exposure.

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    Biomedical waste is any waste containing infectious or potentially infectious materials generated from biological and medical sources like hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and veterinary facilities. Examples include blood, sharps, cultures, body parts, contaminated materials. Biomedical waste differs from normal trash or general waste and some other hazardous wastes. Improper disposal can spread infectious disease and negatively impact human health and the environment. Proper management of biomedical waste includes generation, handling, storage, treatment, transport, and disposal to protect workers, the public, and the environment from exposure.

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    Executive Summary of Biomedical Waste Disposal

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    Biomedical waste is any waste containing infectious or potentially infectious materials generated from biological and medical sources like hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and veterinary facilities. Examples include blood, sharps, cultures, body parts, contaminated materials. Biomedical waste differs from normal trash or general waste and some other hazardous wastes. Improper disposal can spread infectious disease and negatively impact human health and the environment. Proper management of biomedical waste includes generation, handling, storage, treatment, transport, and disposal to protect workers, the public, and the environment from exposure.

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    Executive Summary

    Biomedical waste is any kind of waste containing infectious (or potentially infectious) materials.
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    It may also include waste associated with the generation of biomedical waste that visually
    appears to be of medical or laboratory origin (e.g., packaging, unused bandages, infusion kits,
    etc.), as well research laboratory waste containing biomolecules or organisms that are restricted
    from environmental release.

    Biomedical waste may be solid or liquid. Examples of infectious waste include discarded blood,
    sharps, unwanted microbiological cultures and stocks, identifiable body parts (including those as
    a result of amputation), other human or animal tissue, used bandages and dressings, discarded
    gloves, other medical supplies that may have been in contact with blood and body fluids, and
    laboratory waste that exhibits the characteristics described above. Waste sharps include
    potentially contaminated used (and unused discarded) needles, scalpels, lancets and other devices
    capable of penetrating skin.

    These wastage is generated from biological and medical sources and activities, such as the
    diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of diseases. Common generators (or producers) of biomedical
    waste include hospitals, health clinics, nursing homes, medical research laboratories, offices of
    physicians, dentists, and veterinarians, home health care, and funeral homes. In healthcare
    facilities (i.e., hospitals, clinics, doctors offices, veterinary hospitals and clinical laboratories),
    waste with these characteristics may alternatively be called medical or clinical waste.

    Normally, Biomedical waste is distinct from normal trash or general waste, and differs from
    other types of hazardous waste, such as chemical, radioactive, universal or industrial waste.
    Medical facilities generate waste hazardous chemicals and radioactive materials. While such
    wastes are normally not infectious, they require proper disposal. Some wastes are considered
    multihazardous, such as tissue samples preserved in formalin.

    Disposal of this waste is an environmental concern, as many medical wastes are classified as
    infectious or biohazardous and could potentially lead to the spread of infectious disease. The
    most common danger for humans is the infection which also affects other living organisms in the
    region. Daily exposure to the waste (landfill) leads to accumulation of harmful substances or
    microbes in the person's body. Biomedical waste must be properly managed and disposed of to
    protect the environment, general public and workers, especially healthcare and sanitation
    workers who are at risk of exposure to biomedical waste as an occupational hazard. Steps in the
    management of biomedical waste include generation, accumulation, handling, storage, treatment,
    transport and disposal
    Conclusion

    Medical care is vital for our life and health, but the waste generated from medical activities
    represents a real problem of living nature and human world. Improper management of waste
    generated in health care facilities causes a direct health impact on the community, the health care
    workers and on the environment Every day, relatively large amount of potentially infectious and
    hazardous waste are generated in the health care hospitals and facilities around the world.
    Indiscriminate disposal of BMW or hospital waste and exposure to such waste possess serious
    threat to environment and to human health that requires specific treatment and management prior
    to its final disposal. The present review article deals with the basic issues as definition,
    categories, problems relating to biomedical waste and procedure of handling and disposal
    method of Biomedical Waste Management. It also intends to create awareness amongst the
    personnel involved in health care unit.

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