Safe management of healthcare waste (2013 ed)

The management of healthcare waste is an essential part of ensuring that healthcare activities do not pose a risk or potential risk of infection and are securely managed.

This UK-wide guidance provides a framework for best practice waste management in order to help healthcare organisations, and other healthcare waste producers, meet legislative requirements as well as identify opportunities to improve waste minimisation and reduce the associated environmental and carbon impacts of managing waste.

This Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) covers a range of waste streams produced directly from healthcare activities and does not cover in detail waste streams that are similar to other sectors