Tag: medical wastes

  • No place to dump infectious wastes

    No place to dump infectious wastes

    By Fernan Angeles THE Philippines doesn’t have an appropriate place to dump 5,000 tons of medical wastes generated on a monthly basis from the time COVID-19 hit the country. Instead, garbage of this type have been dumped in sanitary landfills and handled by inadequately-equipped solid waste management personnel whose health are compromised amid a highly-infectious…