1. Recuperação de papel reciclável: aspectos da reciclagem em ambiente hospitalar.
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Bispo de Melo, Stella, Leitão Zajac, Maria Antonietta, de Moura Regis, Milena, and dos Santos Lovatte, Cristina Alves
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WASTE recycling , *WASTE management , *WOMEN'S hospitals , *PUBLIC hospitals , *HEALTH services administration - Abstract
Most of Health Services Waste (HSW) is similar to household waste. Therefore the proper waste segregation avoids the contamination of ordinary waste and that reduces the potential risk to public health, besides providing the recovery of recycling waste. Our main objective with this study was to promote the recovery of paper and to evaluate the disposal of recyclable waste or the reuse of the containers of infectious waste, in the maternity of a public hospital, located in São Paulo city. With this, a secondary objective was to promote the recovery of paper in such an environment. The initiative to recover recyclable paper took place in two stages: a period without orientation and a period with it. In the period without orientation we observed the loss of recyclable waste, due to the potential of contamination by the presence of infectious waste. On the other hand, during the period under orientation, the contamination of the wastes was avoided although inadequate segregation of other recyclable waste, such as plastic, occurred. In the containers of group A (infecting waste), we recorded 340 occurrences of waste that could be recycled or reused. Irregularities in the segregation stage demonstrate the need for continuing education programs on the importance of recycling and of proper segregation of HSW. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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