Abstract

A REVIEW ON HOSPITAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

Parijatha Pushpa Latha P.*, Nancy V., Dr. Purushottama Reddy and Padmalatha Kantamaneni

ABSTRACT

Hospital care waste is indispensable for our life and health, but waste generated from the hospital activities represents a factual problem of living nature and human world. Hospital waste constitutes a potentially deleterious materials with a distinct category of waste . Every day huge amount of indisputably infectious and hazardous wastes are generated in the health care hospitals and facilities around the world. The disposal of these wastes could also lead to environmental problems. Bio waste is composed of various fractions with variable dangers depending on their origin and content. The community to the toxic effects of waste generated from health activity may leads to poor management of health care waste which exposes health labors,waste handlers like garbage disposer,waste disposal unit etc. This article intends to describe various health care wastes, BMW Classification, categories based waste management hierarchy, waste minimization, Hospital solid waste management plan, treatment, processing and disposal options.The main aim of this paper is to highlight the present condition of hospital based waste and a review on scientific method of hospital waste management.

Keywords: Hazardous waste, waste management hierarchy, solid waste Managemen , Environmental problems, waste minimization.