The same procedures, he said, are used for medical waste.

Finally, they are put in a container with other medical waste.

As on most mornings this summer, no medical waste had been found.

At least one of the bags has "medical waste" written on it.

Medical wastes are not the major pollutants in these areas.

It was the first beach closing because of medical waste in 15 years.

"All you need is a small amount of radioactive medical waste," the official said.

If this keeps up, Ill be medical waste by the end of the day.

A more sensible program for monitoring medical waste is in order.

This summer small amounts of medical waste continued to wash up.

It was the only medical waste incinerator in the city.

Conflicting state rules on disposal of medical waste created problems.

"But sales are still down so I think the scare about the medical waste and pollution had some effect."

The practice at the time, in a situation like that, she said, would be to treat the latter group of remains as medical waste.

That sewage was not necessarily related to the medical waste, they said.

Perhaps a similar approach could be taken with our problem of medical waste washing ashore.

But often, home medical waste is simply thrown in the regular trash.

It has an internal capacity of 4.8m3 and is used to destroy all medical waste.

Medical waste and ocean dumping are its least serious aspects.

Many medical waste incinerators have closed for economic or environmental reasons.

The Act was amended sixteen years later to include medical wastes.

There were other calls yesterday for regulations governing medical wastes.

The large majority of those are buried with the body or, if removed, thrown away as medical waste.

Q. Did officials find only needles and other medical waste on the beaches?

The only difference between this summer and 1976, some scientists said, was the advent of medical waste washing up.