Morocco adopts new method to treat hospital waste

Morocco has adopted a new method to process hospital waste by grinding and sterilizing it with steam.

"The new hospital waste treatment method is more efficient and more reliable than incineration which represents considerable hazards for citizens and environment alike," said in Rabat on Wednesday a group of experts taking part in a conference on the subject.

The efficiency of this method was confirmed by the supervisors of waste treatment sites in Fez, Kenitra (40 km north of Rabat) and Tetuan (northern Morocco), where the first grinding machines were installed.

The new processing method of medical waste, they explained, goes through several stages before and after the grinding: waste selection, conditioning, sorting according to the nature of risks involved, be them psychological, physical, chemical, or microbiological and processing before evacuation.