Abstract
Toxic substances produced by chemical industries, hospitals, manufacturing processes, and household wastes are classified as hazardous wastes. Improper handling of these materials can endanger human health, animals, and plants. Waste storage or disposal frequently pollutes surface and groundwater, resulting in harmful water and land pollution. Hazardous waste can include industrial waste, electrical waste, biomedical waste, and so on. Healthcare activities are prohibited in the presence of hazardous biomedical waste such as used bandages and dressings, discarded gloves, discarded blood, used needles and syringes, human or animal tissue, diagnostic samples, radioactive materials, medical devices, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The disposal of this waste is critical for environmental concerns because many medical wastes have the potential to spread infectious disease and are extremely dangerous. Biomedical waste management entails appropriate waste storage, transportation, separate storage areas, storage management, recycling and reusing, segregation of chemical and pharmaceutical waste, and so on. For the treatment and disposal of biomedical waste, various methods have been developed, including incineration, chemical disinfection, steam sterilization, land disposal, and so on. The current chapter provides detailed information on biomedical hazardous waste, its sources, importance, and treatment methods for biomedical waste management.
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