handling hazardous wastes

1. Handling
Hazardous
Wastes

2. Hospital and mining sites
generate much hazardous
wastes. Hospital wastes
are dangerous because
they may contain disease-
carrying agents and
radioactive wastes.

3. Mining industries
generate toxic wastes
like mercury and
cyanide containing
materials produce from
the processing of ore.

4. Other industries also
produce toxic wastewater
and other hazardous solid
wastes. Stricter measures
are implemented in the
disposal of such wastes.

5. types of hospital wastes
infectious wastes- are those which
have been used in medical treatment
such us cotton swabs, gauzes, or
bandages.
Sharps- include used syringes, needles,
or blades.

6. Radioactive wastes-from the
materials used in X-rays and
cancer treatment are stored
surely in a hospital facility until
enough time has lapsed and
the radiation they give of is
not as harmful as it was
initially

7. Biodegradable- are those
can be decay by bacteria and
other organisms
Non-biodegradable- those
that cannot undergo
bacterial decay.

8. Questions in Understanding
What are the main
1.
objectives of the
Basel Convention
give 2 only.

9. Explain why
does hospital
wastes
dangerous.

10. Answers

11. 1. To control and minimize
hazardous wastes generation
2.To ensure that disposal of such
wastes is near to the source of
generation as possible
3.ti ensure the environmentally
safe disposal of hazardous
wastes.

12. Hospital wastes are
dangerous because
they may contain
disease- carrying
agents and
radioactive wastes.