Environmental waste, especially pharmaceuticals and toxins, needs high-level action to stop its major contribution to antimicrobial resistance
Hundreds of tonnes of hazardous medical waste has built up in a backlog blamed on the shortage of licensed treatment facilities in Gauteng.
Allegations of bribery, tender-rigging and health violations follow Northern Cape bid to clean up.
The province’s health department is accused of crooked medical waste contract practices.
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/ 10 December 2009
The Green Scorpions have uncovered another 20 tons of medical waste, buried at an unused gold mine outside Welkom, a spokesperson said on Thursday.