A single Ebola patient treated in a U.S. hospital will generate eight 208-litre barrels of medical waste each day. Protective gloves, gowns, masks and booties are donned and doffed by all who approach the patient’s bedside and then discarded. Disposable medical instruments, packaging, bed linens, cups, plates, tissues, towels, pillowcases and anything that is used […]

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority has exempted the application for the construction of a pet cemetery and crematorium from an Environmental Planning Statement, according to a notice in Friday’s issue of the Government Gazette. In exempting a project from an EPS, Mepa has determined that the proposal is unlikely to have any significant environmental […]

A single Ebola patient treated in a U.S. hospital will generate eight 55-gallon barrels of medical waste each day. Protective gloves, gowns, masks and booties are donned and doffed by all who approach the patient’s bedside and then discarded. Disposable medical instruments, packaging, bed linens, cups, plates, tissues, towels, pillowcases and anything that is used […]

Up to 100 people are expected to arrive at the Dáil this evening to express their anger at the building of the Poolbeg Incinerator. Work on the €600m project in Dublin has started, seven years since planning permission was granted. Frances Corr from Combined Residents Against Incineration says they are getting support from the whole […]

HAI PHONG (VNS) — A seminar to evaluate a medical waste incinerator project built with Japanese technology was held this morning in the northern city of Hai Phong. The project has been operational since January. The initial test results, collected by the Hai Phong Urban Environment One Member Limited Company, indicated that the incinerator meets […]

HAI PHONG (VNS)— A medical waste incinerator in Hai Phong built by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and the Japan International Co-operation Agency in Viet Nam (JICA) completed its trial phase on Thursday. Constructed in January, the US$600,000 incinerator has been operational since March with initial test results collected by the Hai […]

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The Ebola outbreak has arrived from the other side of the world to the Lone Star State. Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the deadly disease in the USA, died at a Dallas hospital on October 8, according to a report in USA Today. He carried the virus from Liberia to Dallas. A Texas […]

PORT ARTHUR – Veolia Environmental Services will temporarily store the ash from Ebola virus-contaminated material that it incinerated late last week at its Port Arthur site because a hazardous waste landfill in Louisiana won’t accept it as long as politicians there contend it might be unsafe, Veolia’s general manager said on Monday. “Waste Management asked […]