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Article: Clearing the confusion on waste disposal. (infectious and hazardous waste disposal in nursing homes)
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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What is hazardous waste? What is infectious waste? And whose disposal rules do you follow?
Confusion seems to be the watch-word for nursing homes when it comes to determining what constitutes infectious and hazardous waste. For infectious waste in particular, definitions and labeling and shipping requirements vary from state to state. The situation on the federal level is not much better.
One agency's published description of infectious waste is not necessarily that of another.
Without clear, universal definitions, the amount of waste a nursing home separates for special handling as either infectious or hazardous can become needlessly high. In an ...