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Why Proper Treatment of Hazardous Medical Waste is Crucial

Medical waste disposal is a process that is regulated and managed by government agencies and approved medical waste disposal agencies. There are rules and regulations at the city and state level that ensure you are disposing of waste products in a safe, effective, and environment friendly manner. It is very important that staff are trained and educated to dispose drugs, hazardous wastes, and other medical wastes into designated disposal containers. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the healthcare administrators to educate their healthcare professionals to practise safe medical waste disposal in their corresponding practise areas.     Sharp medical wastes and hazardous wastes must be segregated into separate properly-labelled containers because these all are transported and disposed differently by medical waste disposal suppliers . The law mandates that the U-listed and P-listed pharmaceuticals as well as their containers need to be handled as hazardous wastes. These item