HOSPITAL WASTE – LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK AND MANAGEMENT DIFFERENTIATIONS IN AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, GERMANY AND GREECE-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

HOSPITAL WASTE – LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK AND MANAGEMENT DIFFERENTIATIONS IN AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, GERMANY AND GREECE

Published:2023-12-31 Issue:25 Volume: Page:71-77
ISSN:2611-4135
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Author:

Mahnik Susanne N.¹,Hoffmann Marc²,Fraeyman Norbert³^ORCID,Komilis Dimitrios⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department for Environmental Management and Hazardous Goods Management,VAMED-KMB,Austria

2. Department of Environmental Protection,University Hospital Jena,Germany

3. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,Ghent University,Belgium

4. Department of Environmental Engineering,Democritus University of Thrace,Greece

Abstract

In this paper, the differences regarding hospital waste management, specifically regarding the legal and technical situation and the definition of hazardous hospital waste in four member states (Austria, Belgium, Germany and Greece) are presented. All countries follow the legal guidelines of the European Union, but the technical situation, especially the possibilities for thermal waste disposal in incineration plants are different. Also, the definition and categories of hazardous medical wastes is different in the aforementioned four EU member states. The annual production amounts of medical waste in selected countries are presented, as well as criteria that lead to their classification as hazardous medical waste.

Publisher

Eurowaste SRL

Subject

Waste Management and Disposal,Environmental Chemistry,Environmental Engineering

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