How to prevent the infusion set from being recycled

Jun 03, 2022

A shocking news has been exposed in the news before, that is, many used cups and fresh-keeping bags are made from medical waste recycling. Most of the garbage here uses infusion sets, infusion connecting tubes, syringes, etc.

Since the regulation is true, it must be reasonable. There will be drug residues after the use of infusion sets, which may have certain hidden dangers. Therefore, the regulation is that these infusion sets should be centrally recycled. The news here is that the cleaning staff of the hospital secretly sent these garbage to the waste collection station. Although they know that these are medical garbage and cannot be recycled, due to the trend of interests, many recycle bin owners still take risks.

So how to prevent this phenomenon. Here, hospitals and other units can use the measurement and recycling system to control, and assign special personnel to take charge of the fixed-point recycling work. The used medical supplies will not be counted and exchanged "one-to-one", so as to minimize the excessive contact between personnel and the used supplies. We will measure the commonly used syringes and liquid conveyors, multiply the measurement of this unit by the annual purchase quantity of the hospital, and compare the total amount obtained with the recycling quantity, The total amount of supplies in our hospital is 15% - 20% lower than the recycling amount, which is due to the residual liquid in the recycled supplies, so the weight may exceed the purchase amount of the hospital.