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Clinical Waste Management Practices: A Review

Table 1:

Component of clinical waste Sources Total
(Perry, 2000) (Dawar, 2017) (Sohrab Hossain et al., 2013) (Jang, Lee, Yoon, & Kim, 2006). (B. K. Lee, Ellenbecker, & Moure-Eraso, 2002) (Dehghani, Azam, Changani, & Fard, 2008) (Liu, You, Lu, & Chen, 2015) (Curtis, & Mak, 1991)
Pathological Waste/Biomedical waste 9
Pressurized Containers 2
Waste with high heavy metal content 4
Sharp 7 12
Radioactive waste 3
Chemical waste 3
Infectious Waste 6
Genotoxic Waste
Pharmaceutical Waste 4
Paper 4
Plastic 5
Glass 3
Textile 4
Absorbent cotton 1
Tissues 1
Organics 1
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