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 ...

Voluntary standards for "greening" the bio-medical research industry were the focus of a 1-2 November 1999 conference held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The conference was organized by the National Association of Physicians for the Environment (NAPE), the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, the NIEHS, the Environmental Protection Agenc...

background: waste produced in dental clinics has been the topic of investigations for many years. these waste materials have important health impacts and are hazardous to humans and the environment. objective: to investigating solid waste production and its management in dental clinics in gorgan, northern iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 45 of 143 public dental practices and 5 of 2...

Bio medical wastes have become a very important source of spreading infections in the society. Hospitals are supposed to be seat of healing, but have become a seat of infection. This is true when it comes to hospital acquired infections which are a frequent picture in those hospitals where health care waste is not managed appropriately.1 Hospital waste is not only infectious but also hazardous ...

Municipal sewage sludge is a solid, semisolid, or liquid muddy looking residue that results after plain old sewage (human and other waste from households and industries) is treated at a waste water treatment plant. Recent restrictions on the use of sewage sludge, however, have resulted in increased disposal problems. Sludge contains a variety of organic and inorganic compounds in the waste wate...

Bio-medical waste management rules were formulated in response to the worldwide public concern over medical waste. The practice of separation into different types of waste in health care institutes should be evaluated more scientifically. Due to a lack of data from the Indian sub-continent, this study was initiated at a tertiary care hospital. Samples were collected from different types of wast...