Tools and Resources
Sustainable Waste Management
- Human Rights Council Report of the Special Rapporteur (pdf)
- HCWH Submission on Medical Waste and Human Rights (pdf) by Ruth Stringer
- Appendix 1: Country Case Studies (pdf)
- Read Press Release from the Human Rights Commission
- Eleven Recommendations for Improving Health Care Waste Management (pdf)
- Hospital Waste: Srishti's Factsheets on 14 Priority Areas in India (pdf)
- For Proper Disposal: A Global Inventory of Alternative Medical Waste Treatment Technologies (pdf)
- Non-Incineration Medical Waste Treatment Technologies in Europe (pdf)
- Best Practices in Health Care Waste Management: Examples from Four Philippine Hospitals (pdf)
- Effects of Vermicomposting on Microbiological Flora of Infected Biomedical Waste (pdf)
- Toxics Link Training Manual Understanding and Simplifying Bio-Medical Waste Management (pdf)
- WHO Safe Management of Wastes from Healthcare Activities
- Expanded Costing Analysis Tools (ECAT) for Health Care Waste Management (pdf)
- Ground Work: Community Action to Reduce the Harm Caused by Health Care Waste and Incineration in South Africa (pdf)
- Health Care Waste Assessment Project: A Partnership Between the Local Government Unit of Baguio, Tertiary Hospitals in Baguio City and Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (pdf)
Incineration Impacts
- Best Environmental Practices and Alternative Technologies for Medical Waste Management (pdf) Discusses impacts of medical waste incineration and alternatives for the developing world
- British Society for Ecological Medicine Report: Health Effects of Waste Incinerators (pdf)
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) website
- Greenpeace Report: Incineration and Human Health: State of Knowledge of the Impacts of Waste Incinerators on Human Health (pdf)
- WHO Assessment of Small-Scale Incinerators for Health Care Waste (pdf)
- Contamination of Chicken Eggs near the Queen Mary's Hospital, Lucknow Medical Waste Incinerator in Uttar Pradesh (India) by Dioxins, PCBs and Hexachlorobenzene (pdf)
Policies
- WHO Safe Health-Care Waste Management Policy Paper (pdf)
- WHO Core Principles for Achieving Safe and Sustainable Management of Health-Care Waste (pdf)
- ICN Position Statement: Medical Waste, Role of Nurses and Nursing (pdf)
- The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants website
Worker Safety
- Preventing Needlestick Injuries among Healthcare Workers: A WHO-ICN Collaboration (pdf)
- WHO Aide-Memoire for a Strategy to Protect Health Workers from Infection with Bloodborne Viruses (pdf)
Projects and Case Studies
- Executive Summary of PMEC report: Disposal of Mass Immunization Waste Without Incineration, (6pp, pdf)
- Full PMEC report: Waste Management and Disposal During the Philippine Follow-Up Measles Campaign 2004 (112pp, pdf)
- Preventing Needlestick Injuries among Healthcare Workers: A WHO-ICN Collaboration (pdf)
- Health Care Waste Assessment Project: A Partnership Between the Local Government Unit of Baguio, Tertiary Hospitals in Baguio City and Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (pdf)
