Calderón Guardia Hospital is taking the steps to become a “green hospital” and purchased to equipment that allow to process 1,400 kilos of bio-infectious waste per day. The equipment allows to convert that material into municipal waste, thanks to a system of crushing and disinfection by microwaves.
When we talk about bio-infectious waste in a hospital center, it refers to all those produced by the human body, such as body fluids, tissues, biological materials from laboratories, which go through various disinfection processes before reaching their final destination.
This new acquisition -valued at $607 thousand- has a number of advantages, including:
It removes the need to store or transport hazardous waste by third parties.
It does not require pressure, water consumption of any effluent.
The volume of garbage is reduced by 80% and the weight by 25%.
Zero environmental impact.
These equipment have the capacity to process 100 kilograms of bio-infectious waste per hour, which allows to free the hospital and the environment of 1,400 kg of this waste per day. It has an electronic weighing system to calculate and record the weight of the waste that will be processed in order to track all the operations.
Taciano Lemos, general director of the hospital, assured that they are pioneers in the issue of management of bio-infectious waste by microwaves in national hospitals, allowing this center to be cataloged as a green hospital at an international level.
Since 2010, this hospital has been devoted to carrying out a series of processes through an interdisciplinary team that allowed it to win an international award for leadership in reducing the environmental footprint of waste and energy in Brazil in 2016.