Australian hospitals incinerate thousands of tonnes of potentially infectious medical waste every year — and COVID-19 has supercharged the problem. A new partnership is looking for […]
Even before he graduated from ANU, Ryan Pike was getting to work developing sustainable solutions to address Australia’s medical waste problem. Every day, truckloads of medical […]
The ACT government has called bids for new ways of dealing with rubbish, as emissions from landfill continue to climb, impacting the territory’s ability to […]
The Newster healthcare waste treatment technology uses a thermal friction process to sterilise clinical and sharps waste, making it inert and unrecognisable. The on-site treatment unit […]
With more than 12,000 Australians on dialysis treatment, Dr Katherine Barraclough, of Royal Melbourne Hospital, welcomes the findings. “For safety reasons, both the tubes that carry […]