Medical Waste Management in Turkey and in the World

Abstract

Disposal of medical wastes is one of the issues that have different approaches among the countries until today and there still has not been developed any common implementation about it across the world. Safe disposal of these wastes are very important in our country as well since they can cause large scale and irrecoverable environmental and human health problems if they are not eliminated in a proper way.
This review deals with the definition of medical waste, the amount of its output in our country, the regulations relevant to this topic, disposal practices in our country and in the world and the differences across the countries. Referring to the importance of safe disposal of medical wastes, this article aims to prepare a ground for the discussions on the necessity of developing innovative and necessary practices in our country.