Biomedical waste management has been a serious environmental issue the country has been facing for quite a long time now. The issue has been hitting the headlines for the last some decades as there ...

Kolkata: In a bid to improve biomedical waste management and curb illegal handling, the Bengal government has implemented a bar-coded tracking system in all govt hospitals. This digital system is ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) issued new guidelines on biomedical waste management, prompted by the findings of a performance audit on the Common Bio-medical Waste Treatment ...

An innovative technology for the safe, sustainable and cost-effective management of biomedical waste, developed by a team of scientists at the the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science ...

In August 1987, the beaches of the United States witnessed a chilling phenomenon dubbed the “Syringe Tide.” Used syringes and other medical waste, such as blood vials and body tissues, began appearing ...