Rajahmundry, Dec. 17: Unscientific recycling of used plastic saline bottles has become rampant as the health authorities fail to keep a tab on their pilferage from hospitals to scrap shops in East Godavari.

The 14 Bangalore hospitals which were ordered to close down by the Lok Adalat have filed an impleading application, seeking time to establish liquid bio-medical waste treatment plants in their premises.

The five government hospitals coming under Bangalore Medical College are likely to start disinfection of liquid bio- medical waste at the source as done in private hospitals, according to an official in Bangalore Medical College Research Institute.

MARGAO, NOV 17
Come Tuesday and the Margao Municipal Council will not just experiment for the first time treating waste and garbage through composting units, but will set in motion a process with the help of nursing homes and clinics to tackle growing bio-medical waste.

Speakers at a discussion in Rajshahi yesterday underlined the need for hygienic and eco-friendly management of medical waste for the sake of making the environment free from pollution.

The Bombay High Court has cracked the whip on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) in response to a writ petition filed by an NGO that bio-medical waste (BMW) was not being properly disposed off in the city.

Pune, September 24 Medical waste packed offto Satara
Pune, for long struggling with its garbage, has found a solution to get rid of its hospital waste, at least. For the last couple of days, the city