Los Angeles Medical Waste Pickup

Medical waste comes from many sources. Our medical waste pickup service serves many of these service on an as-needed pickup and scheduled pickups. Clinics, private doctors' offices, research facilities, as well as laboratories and homes add to medical waste pickup needs. We help.

No one wants medical waste on our streets or beaches. No one wants medical waste to add to landfill problems. So we do our best to help clients understand their true medical waste needs and related matters. We all want to end the need for medical waste disposal with a "technological fix," but unfortunately technology has not progressed to the all-in-one medical waste disposal unit. If and when such a technology arises, we plan to applaud it. A super-duper autoclave beyond our imaginations will serve universally, we hope.

For the meantime, we plan to help control medical waste by providing our professional biohazard, medical waste pickup services.

We all know that at least four federal agencies handle medical waste issues. For these agencies we stay abrest of important medical waste alerts and changes. The Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry all regulate something somehow. We know to that these regulations also vary among different states and localities. Local agencies amend federal rules as they find the needs.

All of these regulatory agencies focus on medical waste in order to protect the environment - and human health. Basic information about different types and sources of medical wastes need dissemination, one of the reasons for our web site.

For example, infectious wastes make up a relatively small portion of medical wastes, and medical wastes themselves represent less than 3% of all municipal solid waste. Incinerating medical waste to reduce these numbers offers both hope and challanges for primary medical waste reduction.

Alternatives like auto-claving (steam sterilization), compacting, microwaving, and mechanically or chemically disinfecting off some costs savings and fewer emissions. Most people in our country know about the importance of recycling. Well, we believe recycling applies to medical waste reduction, too.

Recycling Medical Wastes

Recycling, reduction, and separation of medical wastes as processes means less need for treatment technologies. At this moment a number of hospitals use recycling and reuse of noninfectious items such as linens. Washing machines and hot water with added bleach and detergent solutions recover many tons of linens.

Doctors' Offices

"We're hoping to arrange for their medical waste to be stored in a secure area of the building where the hauler would pick it up weekly," she says. The service would be offered as a convenience to doctors, many of whom do not generate individually enough medical waste to justify individual pickup.

Persons with diabetes, for instance, use syringes at home or at work.

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