Composition and production rate of medical waste from a small producer in Greece

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 1683-1689

  Graikos, Anastasios ^a   Voudrias, Evangelos ^a   Papazachariou, Athanasios ^a   Iosifidis, Nikolaos ^b   Kalpakidou, Maria ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Social Insurance Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDOUS WASTES; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL WASTES; INFECTIOUS WASTES; LIQUID WASTES; MANAGEMENT SCHEME; MEDICAL FACILITY; MEDICAL WASTES; PRODUCTION RATES;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LIQUIDS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SOLID WASTES; SURGERY; TOXIC MATERIALS; X RAY LABORATORIES; X RAYS;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

HAZARDOUS WASTE; PATHOLOGY; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; GREECE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

GREECE; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL WASTE; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; XANTHI;

EID: 77953617520     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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