1. Inappropriate Disposal of Medical Waste
By: Annie Glewwe

2. Waste Outputs Solid Waste Hazardous Waste Biohazardous Waste
Radioactive Waste
Air Emissions
Waste Water

3. Methods of Disposal
Landfills
Incinerators
Autoclave
Recycle

4. Infectious Disease Runoff

5. Hindu Cremation remains leading to Ganges

6. Pollution in the Ganges River

7. “Coliform present in water should be below 50 bacteria per100 milliliters of water for drinking purposes, less than 500 for bathing and below 5000 for agricultural use. The present level of coliform in the Ganges River has reached 5,500.”

8. “The U.S. EPA identifies medical waste incineration as the third largest known source to the environment of highly toxic dioxin, a known carcinogen that has been linked to birth defects, and immune system disorders.”

9. Dioxin Health Effects Decreased function of the Immune System
Cancer Promoter and Cell Proliferation
Reproductive Disorders
Endocrine Disruptor

10. Dioxin Accumulation
Emissions from incinerators
Travel to land and plants
Consumed by animals
Dioxin accumulates in animals
Humans eat animal’s lifetime accumulation of Dioxin.

11. What Can Be Done? Waste Minimization Segregation Recycling
EPA fines for hospital increases in waste production

12. The End
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