BACKGROUND AND AIM: Various types of harmful wastes, which may or may not be contaminated with body fluids, result from health care services. When dental clinics are improperly managed, various environmentally hazardous wastes emerge. This study aims to determine and compare the knowledge levels of academic and dental health personnels and dentistry students an...

(a) Centre for Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Building 85, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; (b) Centre for Biological Sciences, Mailpoint 840 (room LD80b), Level D Laboratories and Pathology Block, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK; (c) Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Plymouth...

background: laboratory wastes are one of the environmental issues of developing countries and cause diseases and epidemics. laboratory waste management is planned with the aim of preventing unfavorable effects on human health and the environment. the aim of the present study was to determine the status of medical waste management in clinical laboratories affiliated with rafsanjan university of ...

1New Product Research Laboratories I, Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, 16-13 Kitakasai 1-Chome, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo 134-8630; 2Department of Preventive Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido; 3Division of Animal Experimentation, Sapporo Medical University, Hokkaido; 4Department of Microbiology, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi; 5Hokkaido Institute of Technology and 6Third Department of...

This article deals with pollution control through source reduction, as an alternative to waste treatment. Many treatment systems simply remove an undesirable process waste from one medium and capture it in another. For example, scrubbers on smokestacks remove Undesirable combustion products by dissolving them in water. Biodegradation of chemicals in wastewater produces sludges (solid wastes)....

Supercritical water oxidation provides a powerful means to transform toxic organic materials into simple, relatively inert oxides. Over the past decade, our understanding of the fundamental chemistry of this process has increased markedly. Many fascinating research papers are appearing from laboratories around the world, on the use of the technique for the decomposition of a variety of organic ...

Background: Laboratory wastes are one of the environmental issues of developing countries and cause diseases and epidemics. Laboratory waste management is planned with the aim of preventing unfavorable effects on human health and the environment. The aim of the present study was to determine the status of medical waste management in clinical laboratories affiliated with Rafsanjan University of ...

Pollutants generated by clinical chemistry laboratories of two cities (Buffalo, N. V. and Rochester, N. V.) are described. A stepwise procedure is suggested on how to deal with the toxic liquid wastes from such laboratories. A brief guideline of chemical procedures for the decontamination of selected toxic elements and compounds is included. There is a long-standing question of whether or not c...