The COVID-19 crisis is generating a significant amount of regulated medical waste. Since the expiration of the federal Medical Waste Tracking Act, medical waste is predominately regulated by the ...

RIT generates regulated medical waste at various locations across campus. Much like hazardous waste, regulated medical waste cannot be disposed in the general trash and must be managed in accordance ...

Management of medical waste captures public attention only intermittently. Media headlines abound when syringes or other medical wastes wash up on beaches, or when infectious diseases such as Ebola ...

All materials that have been in contact with agents potentially infectious to humans must be treated as Regulated Medical Waste. This includes materials that have been in contact with human blood, or ...

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Stericycle, Inc. (SRCL) (Nasdaq: SRCL), a leading provider of regulated medical waste management and secure information destruction solutions, ...

Infectious and/or potentially biohazardous materials may be discarded as RMW to obviate the additional effort of inactivating such materials before disposal in the common waste stream. Investigators ...

While health officials insist the general public does not need to wear surgical masks or other personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent contracting the novel coronavirus, millions have emptied ...

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- remedi, a fully permitted regulated medical waste processor, today announced its 2026 landfill diversion target, committing to divert 1,200,000 pounds of ...

The very materials protecting us from COVID-19 infection over the last year could ultimately cause long-term harm to public health and the planet. Growing quietly in the background amid the chaos to ...

Health care helps keep us healthy and safe, but it can also prove harmful if the resulting medical waste is improperly managed. From used needles to old medications, the byproducts produced during ...