EnviroServ Product Catalogue

MINIMISING WASTE TO

LANDFILL

HEALTH CARE RISK WASTE MANAGEMENT

It includes any waste that is generated during diagnosis, treatment or immu-

nisation of humans or animals, in research pertaining to this; in the manufac-

turing or testing of biological agents - including blood, blood products and

contaminated blood products, cultures, pathological wastes, sharps, human

and animal anatomical wastes and isolation wastes.

Health Care Risk Waste (HCRW),

also referred to as medical waste,

is defined as: waste capable

of producing any disease and

includes but is not limited to the

following:

(a) Chemical waste;

(b) Cytotoxic waste;

(d) Infectious waste;

(e) Isolation waste;

(f) Laboratory waste;

(g) Pathological waste;

(h) Pharmaceutical waste;

(i) Radioactive waste; and

(j) Sharps waste.

The above is as defined by DoH

(May 2014)

EnviroServ’s incineration business

goes as far back as the late eighties.

Through our incinerators, EnviroServ

is able to offer the medical and related

fields peace of mind that their waste is

treated and destructed in accordance

to governing legislation. There have

been a number of incinerators oper-

ated by the company, with the new

HOWDEN machine commissioned

in 2011. It is located at Roodepoort,

Gauteng. EnviroServ does not handle

the transportation of HCRW, but our

incinerator is open to operators for

the destruction of HCRW. The facil-

ity operates in accordance with the

country’s rules governing incinerators

and has an Air Emission Licence and a

Waste Management Licence.

The DEA on the other hand has in its DRAFT regulations (June 2012) the

following:

‘Health care risk waste’ means the portion of the health care

waste that is hazardous and including:

(a) Laboratory waste;

(b) Anatomical waste;

(d) Infectious waste;

(e) Sharps waste;

(f) Sanitary waste;

(g) Nappy waste;

(h) Low-level radioactive waste; and

(i) Pharmaceutical waste.