Composition and production rate of dental solid waste in Xanthi, Greece: Variability among dentist groups

Waste Management

Volumn 25, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 582-591

  Kizlary, Elly ^a   Iosifidis, Nikolaos ^b   Voudrias, Evangelos ^a   Panagiotakopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTAL MATERIALS; HEALTH CARE; MERCURY AMALGAMS; SOLID WASTES;

DENTAL SOLID WASTES; DENTISTS; NON-INFECTIOUS WASTES; WASTE COLLECTION;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DENTAL ALLOY; METAL;

DENTAL HEALTH; HAZARDOUS WASTE; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRISTIAN; DENTIST; DENTISTRY; EUROPEAN UNION; GREECE; HOSPITAL WASTE; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LANDFILL; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MOSLEM; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RURAL AREA; SOLID WASTE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); USSR; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD; XANTHI;

EID: 21344440470     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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