In three hospitals the hospital wards were near to the temporary storage site which is very hazardous to the health of the people. Treatment and disposal of health care waste Four of the surveyed hospitals disposed of their waste on-site in their own incinerators and one hospital disposed of ...
Incineration could be used in medical waste treatment until another common treatment method and steam sterilization is available in near future. Therefore, toxic substances such as dioxin emissions at medical waste incinerators should be closely monitored to reduce potential risks to humans and the ...
Historically, the focus of EJ work has focused on the disproportionate siting of hazardous wastes treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, dumps, polluting industries, byproducts of municipal landfills, and incinerators in community of color’s neighborhoods [58]. Another example is the cancer ...