Waste management officials for Ramsey and Washington counties said Monday that multiple medical facilities are improperly sending infectious waste to its recycling facility. Ramsey/Washington ...

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MADISON, Wis. (WLUK) -- Wisconsin Republicans are introducing a new bill that has sparked debate over medical waste from abortion pills. The legislation is called "Clean Water for All Life." It would ...

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Nursing homes handle everything from wound care to medication injections daily, meaning they produce a steady flow of medical waste — especially used needles and contaminated dressings. Managing all ...

A boy removing oil spilled on Itapuama beach, in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco State, Brazil. After a two year investigation police have said a Greek-flagged ...

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Sabic has collaborated with Zuyderland Medical Center in the Netherlands to transform medical plastic waste into new contact-sensitive packaging materials, marking a breakthrough in healthcare ...

Annotating regions of interest in medical images, a process known as segmentation, is often one of the first steps clinical researchers take when running a new study involving biomedical images. For ...

Bio-tar, once seen as a toxic waste, can be transformed into bio-carbon with applications in clean energy and environmental protection. This innovation could reduce emissions, create profits, and ...

DELMARVA - One year after medical waste washed ashore from Rehoboth Beach to Assateague Island, forcing beach closures at the end of summer, investigators still have no updates about where it came ...