Medical Waste
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The most commonly used technology for dealing with medical waste, till recently was an incinerator. Incinerator, when introduced was supposed to be a wonder technology. A technology that would get rid of loads of waste by burning it and would leave behind some ash, that could be dumped. However, instead of solving the problem of waste, it aggravated it. It only changed the biological problem into a chemical one. When burnt in the incinerator, the solid and liquid toxic wastes get transformed into gaseous emissions dispersing pollutants over land and water systems and into the atmosphere. These include toxic chemicals and metals like mercury, lead and cadmium. In addition, potent carcinogens like dioxins and furans are created when chlorinated products like syringes, catheters, PVC tubing, blood bags, bleached paper etc. are incinerated.
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