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2. Biomedical waste - Wikipedia

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   Biomedical waste is not limited to medical instruments; it includes medicine, waste stored in red biohazard bags, and materials used for patient care, such as cotton and bandaids. The most serious effect that biomedical waste has on our seas is the discharge of poisons into the waters that could then be consumed by ocean life creatures.

3. Stericycle - Wikipedia

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   Stericycle was founded in 1989 by Dr. James Sharp based on his business plan to address the Syringe Tide, where hypodermic needles and other medical waste washed up to the shores of New York and New Jersey. The Syringe Tide led to the Medical Waste Tracking Act, signed in 1988, establishing regulated medical waste management as an industry. [10]

4. Waste Management, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   A WM trash collection truck in Toronto, Ontario. Video clip of WM trash removal operation, Ypsilanti Twp., MI A WM rolloff container in Durham, North Carolina. Waste Management, Inc., doing business as WM, is a waste management, comprehensive waste, and environmental services company operating in North America.

5. Google Maps can now guide you to drug disposal locations - AOL

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   Drug disposal programs have been cited as an effective tool in the fight against opioid abuse by medical studies and the White House. Now Google is lending a hand by pinpointing 3,500 of these ...

6. Sharps waste - Wikipedia

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   Disposal methods vary by country and locale, but common methods of disposal are either by truck service or, in the United States, by disposal of sharps through the mail. Truck service involves trained personnel collecting sharps waste, and often medical waste , at the point of generation, and hauling it away by truck to a destruction facility.

7. Waste collection - Wikipedia

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   A waste collection barge in Venice, Italy. Manual waste collection in Bukit Batok West, Singapore. Waste on a sidewalk for collection, bagged and stickered - in Dublin, Ireland. Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill.