PMLS1 - Lesson 11

Between 75 and 90 percent

Waste generated by Health care activities on average are non-hazardous

10 to 25 percent

Remaining hazardous

30.37%

Percentage of hazardous waste from HCF in the Philippines

69.63%

Percentage of general waste from HCF in the Philippines

Infectious waste

Waste suspected to contain pathogens or toxins

Pathological and Anatomical waste

refers to tissue sections and body fluids or organs derived from biopsies, autopsies, or surgical procedures sent to the laboratory for examination

Sharps

refer to waste items that can cause cuts, pricks, or puncture wounds

Chemical waste

refers to discarded chemicals (solid, liquid, or gaseous) generated during disinfection and sterilization procedures.

Pharmaceutical waste

refers to expired, spilt, and contaminated pharmaceutical products, drugs, and vaccines including discarded items used in handling pharmaceuticals

Radioactive waste

refers to wastes exposed to radionuclides including radioactive diagnostic materials or radiotherapeutic materials

Non-hazardous or General Waste

refers to wastes that have not been in contact with communicable or infectious agents, hazardous chemicals, or radioactive substances, and do not pose a hazard

Adopted in Montreal, Canada; September 16, 1987

The Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer (1987)

Basel Convention on the Control of the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes (1989)

transboundary movements of hazardous waste.

The united nations framework convention on climate change (1992)

Legally non-binding pledge that by the year 2000, major industrialized nations would voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001)

Global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

The asean framework agreement on the facilitation of Goods in Transit (1998)

a core instrument that provides nine high level protocols that set out generic standards to be put into place for the implementation of an international transit system