What is ordinary solid waste in Vietnam?
May I ask, in accordance with the latest regulations , what types of ordinary solid waste in Vietnam include?
Pursuant to Clause 4, Article 4 of Circular 20/2021/TT-BYT (Effective from 10/01/2022) ordinary solid waste includes:
a) Solid domestic waste from daily activities of medical staff, patients, families of patients, students, guests, and outdoor wastes within healthcare facilities (excluding domestic waste generated from isolation wards for patients who have dangerous infectious diseases);
b) Discarded chemicals without ingredients and properties exceeding the hazardous waste threshold;
c) Medicine or chemical bottles and jars, other tools that contain medicine or chemicals that do not fall under the cytotoxicity category; or bottles and jars that do not have hazard warnings on their labels;
d) Discarded bottles of vaccines other than inactivated vaccines or attenuated vaccines;
dd) Non-infectious non-sharps that are wastes without ingredients and properties exceeding the hazardous waste threshold;
e) Treated infectious wastes that meet the national technical regulation on environment;
g) Discarded sludge without ingredients and properties exceeding the hazardous waste threshold from the wastewater treatment system; ashes or slag without ingredients or properties exceeding the hazardous waste threshold from solid health-care waste incinerators;
h) Other ordinary solid wastes;
i) The list of recyclable ordinary solid wastes allowed to be collected is prescribed in Appendix 1 promulgated with this Circular.
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