Medical Waste Incineration and Pollution Prevention (Hardcover, 1992 Ed.)

The annual cost of medical care in the U niled States is rapidly approaching a trillion dollars. Without doubt, much of the rise in costs is due to our health industry's concentration on high technology remediation and risk avoidance measures. From recent public discussions it is becoming in creasingly evident that to contain the costs and at the same time extend the benefits of health care without national bankruptcy will necessitate much greater attention to preventative medicine. The total cost of waste disposal by our health industry is well over a billion dollars. It is rising rapidly as we increasingly rely on high technol ogy remediation measures. Here, too, in the opinion of the authors of this work, it would be prudent to give much greater attention to preventative approaches. Incineration technology has largely been developed for disposing mu nicipal solid waste (MSW) and hazardous waste (HW). As a result of the multibillion dollar funding for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), most experts believe that pollution control is the key to minimizing toxic emissions from incinerators. This view is now beginning to take hold in medical waste (MW) incineration as well. However, the authors contributing to this book have concluded that precombustion measures can be most effective in reducing the toxic products of medical waste incineration."

General

Imprint:	Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1992
First published:	July 1992
Authors:	Alex E.S. Green
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	213
Edition:	1992 Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-442-00819-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Environmental science Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > Medical toxicology Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > Waste treatment & disposal > General Promotions
LSN:	0-442-00819-8
Barcode:	9780442008192

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