Study on recycling of plastic waste in dialyses department

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to find an alternative method for plastic medical waste treatment instead of incineration because plastic burning is harmful for the ecology and public health, beside the economical advantage of plastic recycling. The study is applied by using the sodium hydroxide 10% concentration for chemical disinfection the plastic medical waste were flooded in sodium hydroxide for six hours, and the expected results had been obtained. The proposed system for plastic waste disinfection and granulation process was successfully designed in a form of block diagram.