Central Australia’s Creature graveyard
The figure has been shown from the Alice Springs regional waste management facility report for October. The dead pet you asked the vet to dispose of will wind up buried in landfill, in most places across the nation, and Alice Springs is not any different. “it is a combo of horses, dogs, cats, pigs, any animal that dies,” explained Alice Springs council technical services manager Greg Buxton. “Road kill, kangaroos and that, the rangers select up them, and you’ve got to dispose of them someplace sterile. We place them at the back of landfill.” The facility is on track to surpass last year’s total, with 3.7 tonnes deposited at the first quarter of the year. Mr Buxton said most regional councils across the nation dispose of dead animals in garbage. “In the bigger cities they have an incinerator type setting where they cremate themwhereas we don’t have an incinerator here,”…
medical waste
Medical waste is posing a growing problem all over the world, jeopardizing the health of staff, patients, disposal workers and anyone else coming into contact with the often hazardous materials discarded by hospitals and other healthcare sites. Hospital waste varies from site to site and the biggest challenge is to dispose of this wide range of waste streams. Incineration is still the preferred way to process medical waste without endangering the heath patients, staff or anyone else coming into contact with them. Clinical waste is costing more and more to dispose of safely. Health Clinics and Health center can now handle their own waste streams using one of our specialist medical incinerators. Destroying hazardous waste at source is by far the most effective and efficient way of handling waste that could potentially spread diseases or viruses.