Where government ships radiation, infectious waste

Public exposed as contagious medical trash routinely trucked across
America's highways

By Chelsea Schilling
Contaminated needles and scalpels, bloodied bandages, body parts,
unused prescription drugs, soiled hospital garments, radioactive waste
and refuse tainted with infectious disease: These are only a few items
that may be discarded on a curbside, abandoned in a nearby lake or
piled in a dumpster headed for the local landfill.
Some say Americans are simply oblivious to the imminent risk of major
hazards and contagions spreading throughout their communities at any
given time.
Former Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., grew concerned about medical waste
hauling after Sept. 11. He told WND that 15 years ago, the nation's
hospitals incinerated much of the infectious waste on site. However,
the Environmental Protection Agency mandated strict guidelines for
incinerators after concerns about air pollution, forcing most hospitals
to hire truck drivers to haul medical waste away.
“What happened was that most hospitals and most doctors' offices
started going off site because they had no other way of treating it on
site,” Pombo said. “So this industry was born that picked up medical
waste and took it to a centralized site. Those centralized sites are
sometimes several hundred miles away from the doctor's office or the
hospital where they're picking this stuff up.”
Darrell Henry, executive director of the Healthcare Waste and Emergency
Preparedness Coalition, expressed concerns about national safety when
contagious medical waste that could be contaminated with hepatitis,
tuberculosis
, flu or even small pox is trucked across America's roadways.
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