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Now That's What We Call Hospitality
Vietnam hospital waste turned into plastic utensils |
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30 Aug 2007 |
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| Posted at 5:06 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Recycling gone bad: Environmental officers in Vietnam have found that nearly 300 tonnes of medical waste from a Hanoi hospital was illegally processed into household plastic utensils, state media said Wednesday. A staff member at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital sold the used plastic items -- including IV transmission lines and syringes, some still contaminated with blood -- s ... |
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