Biomedical waste

Biomedical waste

Biomedical wastes are those of solid, liquid or sharp waste evolved from health-care (medical) activities such as diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, prevention of disease or alleviation of handicap in humans or animals, including related biomedical research. Proper handling of biomedical waste is crucial to the Public health and needs to be convened with standard operating procedures [http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/prospectivehealth/customcf/biowaste/Incinerat.pdf] . It differenciates from the biological waste in that the former is generated from a man-made way whereas the later from a natural ecological cycle.


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