Anyone have clinical waste collection?

[garinda]

The council tell you urine's good in the compost bin, in order to break it down more quickly, and make a rich loam.

Perhaps the fifty five residents should bag up their waste, take it to Scaitcliffe House, and offer it as a filling for next year's flower towers.

A C C R I N G T O N - Floral Market Town & full of sh-it.

[Neil]

Have you tried going to Scaithcliffe recently? Parking is terrible, I dont know who decided to use that building but parking is terrible with no visitor space or there is never any available when I go.

[wallop79]

Accyman book an appointment with Graham Jones, he's been very good helping me with my CSA case in the past, are you on Facebook? Maybe you could start a group on there. I will be writing a letter of complaint to HBC this week, but I will havea look tomorrow on net about the law changing as to why clinical waste doesn't need to be separated anymore. What are the hospitals going be doing with all their clinical waste if it doesn't need to be incinerated anymore? Also what are the binmen/women saying about this surely it is more of a hazard to them, or are HBC going to be kitting them out in biohazard suits?!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Hospitals pay to have their clinical waste incinerated.
When I worked for the NHS anything that was contaminated by bodily fluids(blood, pus, urine, feaces, vomitus etc) was deemed clinical waste.
I Googled last night to see if I could find anything relating to domestically generated clinical waste, and to see what regulations there were.......all that I managed to find out was that Canterbury are implementing the same policy as HBC.
I would not like to be one of the refuse operators dealing with such waste.......there has to be some risk involved.......you only need for something sharp to have perforated the plastic bag(double bagged or not) and there is a risk to the operative.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Neil

Have you tried going to Scaithcliffe recently? Parking is terrible, I dont know who decided to use that building but parking is terrible with no visitor space or there is never any available when I go.

They're not as daft as we think they are

[wallop79]

Just rung the Environment Agency to be told that if someone produces clinical waste in their own home it is classed as domestic waste, which of course is dealt with by your local council, if say a district nurse attends your home & produces any clinical waste they have to take it with them & dispose of it accordingly, places like dentists, doctors, hospitals, have to have permits to dispose of clinical waste (but we know that anyway) so it looks like a phone call to HBC to ask them just what law has changed, an 'official law' or a HBC made up law.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by jaysay

They're not as daft as we think they are

Yes they are, there own staff and visitors cant get parked.

I think HBC is split over 4 sites which is completely stupid as staff appear to wander around between sites for meetings etc. They should be based in one building, the globe would have been perfect in the Council of the time had thought about it.

[shillelagh]

well theres 9 offices going begging across the road from me ... ok in rossendale but our postal address is accrington ... it does have 50 car parking spaces .. and the spice rooms carpark is next door ...

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Neil

Yes they are, there own staff and visitors cant get parked.

I think HBC is split over 4 sites which is completely stupid as staff appear to wander around between sites for meetings etc. They should be based in one building, the globe would have been perfect in the Council of the time had thought about it.

Neil at one time it was split of numerous sites never mind four, in comparison 4s a blessing

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

well theres 9 offices going begging across the road from me ... ok in rossendale but our postal address is accrington ... it does have 50 car parking spaces .. and the spice rooms carpark is next door ...

and Neil could get a brew at your place when on official business

[wallop79]

Rang HBC earlier was passed to an environmental officer who said they had been told about the changes in a meeting this morning. When I questioned what the law was that had been changed she passed the buck & told me to ask for Raygan (this is how she pronounced it) Thompson or Steve Riley, she tried to put my call back to switchboard which failed. I rang env. health again & asked 2 speak to one of these fellas to be told I need to ring , which I did to be told the inspectors aren't office based, what was the query was, explained I wanted to know what law had been changed & why the people this affects were not consulted, ok we normally try to ring back within 2 working days of enquiry, but one of them might ring you tomorrow, watch this space

[jaysay]

Well this thread as been running for 8 days now and this is the57th post, strange that none of our members who are elected to serve the public and who were very vociferous prior to the May elections haven't bothered to say a word as yet

[wallop79]

Just had a call from lady at HBC, I asked what the law was that had been changed, as per Miles Parkinsons quote in Lancs Telegraph, she said its not a law as such, its just the classification, as pads & dressings are not classed as hazardous waste ( !!! ) they can be put into normal refuge collections, when I said I have a baby & I know how bad the bin can smell after double bagging or even treble bagging nappies I asked whether any thought had been given to doing a weekly bin collection for these people, she said no, but they can ring up & request an additional bin. So people can ring up they will then be sent an application form, is it really going to be that simple, Accyman you will have to let us know.

[Gordon Booth]

Won't two smelly bins just smell twice as much as one? Especialy after 2 weeks in the sun!
That's not the answer.

[garinda]

I'm suprised they haven't told you to sort through it.

Separating out what's recycable.

Blood.

Plastic.

Crap.