Single-use health care items—everything from gloves and blood bags to surgical equipment—have become a growing environmental problem worldwide. Their use has increased sharply in recent years ...

The ileostomy bag collects the digestive waste of people who have undergone an ileostomy. Proper skin care and regular bag emptying are essential to prevent complications. Medical News Today ...

That’s the leftover trash or disposable byproduct from your health care. Examples of medical waste include: ... Never toss these into bags, trash cans, recycling bins, or toilets.

Some 14,000 tons of waste is generated every day at hospitals and other health care facilities around the country, roughly a quarter of it plastic. Yet 91% of plastic isn’t recycled , and winds ...

A hidden waste management time bomb is ticking away, and health and safety professionals should understand its full dimensions: the disposal of medical waste, including used syringes, needles ...

Pizza boxes, flowers, wadded-up paper, latex-glove boxes—those were just some of the items regularly tossed into the red bags reserved for regulated medical waste at Inova Health System ...

The Academy of Medicine did something smart when it reframed our health care overspending as waste. We may be a wasteful country, but we still teach our kids to eat everything on their plates.

The machine decreases how many trucks Northwell needs to transport waste since Generations shreds bulky items, reducing the size of sharps containers by about 70-to-80% and blood collection tubes ...

A medical waste disposal company operating in Fargo, North Dakota, has filed a scathing lawsuit against health care system Sanford Health. The lawsuit claims—among many things—that Sanford ...

The U.K.'s 11 Health just launched the first ever app for remote monitoring of ostomy pouches so that patients and caregivers are aware when the external pouch is filling up with bodily waste.

Waste watching: When it comes to infection control measures in long-term care, medical waste disposal can’t be taken lightly. But providers might actually be overdoing it.

The National Academy of Medicine has estimated the health-care system wastes around $765 billion a year — about a quarter of what we spend. Eliminating all the waste could allow us to insure 150 ...