Latest Medical waste Stories
How to Dispose of Used Sharps? Tattoo parlors, like the medical field, deal with contaminated Sharps needles on a daily basis. These Sharps must be disposed of properly to ensure public health and safety from needle sticks by objects that could potentially be infected with Hepatitis, HIV, AIDS and other infectious diseases. There are several routes you can pursue in order to dispose of used Sharps. Issaquah, WA (PRWEB) November 1, 2010 Sharps are classified as a needle or other sharp...
BETHEL, Conn., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- MedClean Technologies (OTC Bulletin Board: MCLN), the leading provider of on-site technology for the treatment and disposal of medical waste and the destruction of confidential documents and related media, today announced it had signed a distribution agreement with Sodzo Medical, Inc., a four state distributorship doing business as Texas Pain Reps based out of Houston, Texas. The agreement enables Sodzo Medical to provide an integrated waste stream...
SINGAPORE, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The hospital waste management sector in Malaysia is often perceived as a low-growth potential industry. However, Frost & Sullivan revealed that in 2009, the industry made approximately USD 200 million in revenue by managing, processing and disposing close to 16,000 tonnes in discarded medical devices, equipment and bio-waste. The entire country's medical waste management activities are governed by three concessionaires appointed by the Ministry of...
HAYWARD, Calif., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Barnett Medical Services, the leading independently owned and operated provider of medical supplies and waste removal services in Northern California since 1961, which recently, became the distributor of MedClean Technologies (OTC Bulletin Board: MCLN) waste sterilization technology across a four state western region, today announced the formation and launch of the Independent Medical Waste Transporters Association (IMWTA) designed to provide...
LAKE FOREST, Ill., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stericycle Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL), a leader in healthcare-related services that protects people and reduces risk, announced it has been awarded a new contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, the group purchasing unit of Premier, Inc. The new national agreement for Stericycle's Integrated Waste Stream Solutions, effective July 1, 2010, is available to 2,300 acute care hospital members of the Premier healthcare alliance. The agreement...
LAKE FOREST, Ill., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stericycle Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL), a leader in healthcare-related services that protects people and reduces risk, announced it has been awarded a new contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, the group purchasing unit of Premier Inc. The national agreement for Stericycle's Hazardous Waste service, effective July 1, 2010, is available to 2,300 acute care hospital members of the Premier healthcare alliance. Also in the agreement are two...
LAKE FOREST, Ill., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stericycle Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL), a leader in healthcare-related services that protects people and reduces risk, announced it has been awarded a new contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, the group purchasing unit of Premier, Inc., to renew two services: Regulated Medical Waste and Pharmaceutical Waste Compliance. In addition to renewing these services, the agreement was expanded to include Stericycle's Hazardous Waste service and...
PHOENIX, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WM Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), today announced that it has acquired a medical waste processing facility and certain other medical waste business assets located in Phoenix, Arizona, from Milum Textile Services Co., a provider of linen services and medical waste collection and treatment services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090219/WMLOGO) The...
HOUSTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WM Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), today announced that it has purchased from Stericycle, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL) certain assets of MedServe, Inc. MedServe provided regulated medical waste management solutions, including on-site sharps management and on-site medical waste treatment, and waste management solutions for hazardous materials including chemical, pharmaceutical and radioactive waste until its...
HOUSTON, April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sharps Compliance Inc. (Nasdaq: SMED), ("Sharps" or the "Company"), has unveiled the first of its kind, patent-pending GREEN Waste Conversion Process(TM), eliminating medical waste going into landfills by 100%. The process transforms discarded medical waste into a new product called PELLA-DRX(TM) - a clean, raw material used in the manufacture of industrial resources, vital to everything from highways to high-rise buildings. The disposal of...
