WASTE MANAGEMENT Flashcards
e (also known as rubbish, trash, refuse, garbage, junk, litter, and ort) is
unwanted or useless materials. In biology, waste is any of the many unwanted
substances or toxins that are expelled from living organisms, metabolic waste;
such as urea and sweat
WASTE
“substances or objects which are disposed of or are intended to be disposed of or are required to be disposed of by the provisions of the law”
Basel Convention Definition of Wastes
“any operation which may lead to resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re-use or alternative uses (Annex IVB of the Basel convention)”
DISPOSAL
U.N.S.D means
United Nations Statistics Division
Produced by the United Nations Statistics Division (U.N.S.D.): ______________are materials that are not prime products (that is products produced for the market) for which the generator has no further use in terms of his/her own purposes of production, transformation or consumption, and of which he/she wants to dispose.
Wastes
____________ may be generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, and other human activities. Residuals recycled or reused at the place of generation are excluded.”
Wastes
Wastes may be generated during the __________________________, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, and other human activities.
extraction of raw materials
Clinical Laboratories and other health care institution are ________________. It is a common knowledge that certain categories of waste from these institutions are potentially hazardous of all wastes generated by the community.
wastes generators
This type of waste does not pose
special handling problem or hazard
to human health or to the
environment.
General
Waste
It comes mostly from the administrative and housekeeping functions of the hospital and may also include the waste generated during the waste generated during maintenance of the hospital premises.
General
Waste
This type of waste is suspected to contain
pathogens (bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi) in sufficient concentration or quantity to cause disease in susceptible host. T
Infectious
Waste
includes tissues, organs,
body parts, human fetus, blood and other
body fluids.
Pathologic waste
A huge amount of laboratory
wastes are considered as pathologic due to
the nature of laboratory work and specimen
requirements of various laboratory tests.
Pathologic waste
a medical term that to devices with sharp. Sharps refers points and edges that can
puncture the skin.
Sharps
This category of waste included needles, scalpels, syringes ,saws, broken glass, infusion sets, knives, nails and any other item that can cut or puncture wounds.
Sharps
