Medical establishments play important roles in different activities by using of modern technology to serve the humans and the environment through different departments in the establishment and its firms. Medical wastes are considered as a hazardous waste because they contain toxic materials, infectious, or non-infectious wastes and they are considered as a hazard to millions of patients, health...

The safety and acceptability of many widely used solid waste management practices are of serious concern from the public health point of view. Such concern stems from both distrust of policies and solutions proposed by all tiers of government for the management of solid waste and a perception that many solid waste management facilities use poor operating procedures. Waste management practice th...

background: dental waste can be hazardous to humans and the environment. objective: to determine the current status of dental waste management in private and public dental clinics and private dental offices in shiraz, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted at the shiraz university of medical sciences from february through june 2013. a stratified random sampling method ...

Combustion of wastes is an effective disposal technology. Although there are many examples of application in industry, severe environmental concerns are raised regarding the emissons from incinerators. Thermal treatment plants are usually comprised of a primary combustion chamber followed by a second combustion chamber, as schematically described in Fig. 1. During the oxidation of solid and liq...

In Hong Kong, landfill dumping has been a main approach for municipal solid wastes disposal and will be continued in the near future. However, gaseous emission from municipal waste may causes offensive odours and disturbs the neighbours around landfill sites. Usually there are not enough buffer zones between landfill sites and the nearest sensitive receptors due to a land restriction in Hong Ko...