The new EPA guide includes steps medical institutions can take to update their hazardous waste disposal plans. The Environmental Protection Agency has published a new guide to implementing hazardous ...

Northwell Health is turning blood collection tubes, needles and other lab waste into nonhazardous flakes — and hunting for a recycling firm that can make the material useful for manufacturers.

Jul. 8—Area residents now have a new way to dispose of used or unneeded needles and other sharps intended for medical use. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma installed a red sharps disposal box at its ...