Talk:Sharps waste

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As a 4th year Biomedical Engineering Student at the University of Virginia both my senior thesis and capstone project are in the area of sharps waste management. Myself and three other Biomedical Engineering students are working towards the design of a needle removing device tailored to developing countries. This issue was presented to us by the Center for Health Care Worker Safety. While several entries speak of sharps waste, non have adressed it specifically. Here I've attempted to apply knowledge gained in this area to provide an appropriate introduction to the topic. Sej7d 22:14, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Section: In the developing world
The second paragraph in this section has a partial citation at the end: Hutin, Hauri, Armstrong, 2003. This is the only article I could find which fits this description: Use of injections in healthcare settings worldwide, 2000: literature review and regional estimates. But that article does not relate to anything in the second paragraph. I propose to delete the partial citation as it appears to be incorrect.

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*How* is it disposed ?
Finding myself quite confused by this article, which states most sharps are disposed in autoclaves. As I understand, autoclaves are typically used to sterilize; they don't make waste *disappear*. There is nothing in the autoclave article to suggest otherwise, which leaves unanswered the question of how they are disposed-even if sterilized, needles would still be a safety hazard to introduce into the typical landfill waste stream. Walkersam (talk) 19:40, 8 September 2023 (UTC)