Health Care Waste Management

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Refer to all solid and liquid wastes

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Health care waste

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How many percent of non-hazardous?

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75 and 90 %

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How many percent of hazardous, toxic, infectious and radioactive?

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10 to 25 %

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In the Philippines, how many percent of facilities are hazardous?

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30.37%

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How many percent are general waste?

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69.63%

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Categories of Health Care Wastes

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Infectious waste

Pathological and anatomical waste

Sharps

Chemical waste

Pharmaceutical waste

Radioactive waste

Non-hazardous waste or general waste

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Contain pathogens or toxins

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Infectious waste

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Microbial cultures, solid waste, urine containers, sputum, blood bags, vomit, food waste

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Infectious waste

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Biopsies, autopsies and surgical procedures

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Pathological and anatomical waste

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Can cause cuts, pricks and puncture wounds

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Sharps

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Syringe, lancets, knives? Broken glasswares

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Sharps

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Laboratory reagents, x-ray films, used batteries, mercury, chlorine

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Chemical waste

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Drugs and vaccines

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Pharmaceutical waste

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Exposed to radionuclides

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Radioactive waste

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Plastic, paper, scrap wood, food waste

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General waste / Non-hazardous

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Prolonged periods in minute quantities

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Chronic exposure

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Short period in large quantities

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Acute exposure

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Montreal Protocol

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Ozone layer

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Eliminate ozone depleting substances in the environment

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Montreal Protocol

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Basel Convention

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Transboundary

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United Nations Framework

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Climate Change

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Stockholm Convention

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POP - Persistence Organic Pollutants

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ASEAN

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Goods in Transit

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Republic Act No. 4226

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Hospital Licensure Act

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Republic Act No. 6969

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An Act to Control Toxic Subsfances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste

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Republic Act No. 8749

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Philippine Clean Air Act

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Republic Act No. 9003

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Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

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Republic Act No. 9275

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Philippine Clean Water act of 2004

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Presidential Decree 813

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Laguna Lake Development

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Presidential Decree 856

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Code on Sanitation of the Philippines

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Presidential Decree No. 984

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Pollution Control Law

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Presidential Decree No. 1586

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Environmental Impact Statement

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Executive order no. 301

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Green Procurement Program..

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DOH Administrative Order No. 2008-0021

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Mercury

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DOH Administrative Order No. 2008-0023

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Patient Safety

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Health care waste proper management

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Prevent

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

Recover

Treat

Dispose

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Most important step in the proper management

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Waste minimization

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Green Procurement Policy two aspects

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Waste prevention

Waste reduction

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Finding new application for a used material

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Reusing

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Used materials into new product

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Recycling

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Waste is converted to fuel for electricity for direct heating of premises

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Energy recovery

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Changing the biological and chemical characteristics of waste

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Waste treatment

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Discharging, depositing, placing or releasing any health care waste

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Waste disposal

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Process of separating different types of waste at the point of generation until their final disposal

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Segregation

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COLOR OF THE BIN OF WASTE

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Color of the bin waste

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Infectious waste

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Yellow

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Pathological and anatomical waste

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Yellow

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Sharps

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Red

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Chemical waste

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Yellow with black band

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Pharmaceutical waste

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Yellow with black band

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Radioactive

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Orange

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General waste:

Non biodegradable

Biodegradable

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Black or colorless

Green

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Treatment and Disposal Health Care Wastes

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Pyrolysis

Autoclave

Microwave

Chemical disinfectant

Biological process

Encapsulation

Inertization

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Thermal decomposition of health care waste

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Pyrolysis

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Waste is converted into gas, solid, liquid form

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Pyrolysis

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Steam sterilization

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Autoclave

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121 degrees Celsius w/ 15 psi for 15 to 30 minutes

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Autoclave

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100 degrees Celsius atleast 30 mins

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Microwave

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Enzyme mixture to decontaminate health care waste

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Biological process

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Filling containers eith waste adding and immobilizing material and sealing the container

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Encapsulation

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Pharmaceutical waste that involves mixing of waste with cement

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Inertization

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Engineered site designed to keep waste isolated from the environment

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Landfill