Clinical Waste Management Practices: A Review

Abstract

Clinical waste is potentially dangerous. It may contain various waste from medical, nursing, dental, pharmaceutical, skin penetration and other related clinical activity. Poor management and inappropriate disposal methods exercised during handling and disposal of clinical waste is increasing significantly on health hazards and environmental pollution due to the infectious nature of the waste. By improving the procedure and technology in managing clinical waste it will give big impact to the environment. Therefore, healthcare industry can save money and provide a safe environment for all. Developing country face a problem in generation of clinical waste and significantly increased significantly over the few decades. This research is an overview on the existing researchers in the area of clinical waste management to investigate different finding regarding waste segregation and disposal. It is discovered the alternative treatment method and it will become major challenges in the future. The alternative method for the future is very important to help environment by reducing the pollution