The annual cost of medical care in the U niled States is rapidly approaching a trillion dollars. Without doubt, much of the rise in costs is due to our health industry's concentration on high technology remediation and risk avoidance measures. From recent public discussions it is becoming in- creasingly evident that to contain the costs and at the same time extend the benefits of health care without national bankruptcy will necessitate much greater attention to preventative medicine. The total cost of waste disposal by our ...
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The annual cost of medical care in the U niled States is rapidly approaching a trillion dollars. Without doubt, much of the rise in costs is due to our health industry's concentration on high technology remediation and risk avoidance measures. From recent public discussions it is becoming in- creasingly evident that to contain the costs and at the same time extend the benefits of health care without national bankruptcy will necessitate much greater attention to preventative medicine. The total cost of waste disposal by our health industry is well over a billion dollars. It is rising rapidly as we increasingly rely on high technol- ogy remediation measures. Here, too, in the opinion of the authors of this work, it would be prudent to give much greater attention to preventative approaches. Incineration technology has largely been developed for disposing mu- nicipal solid waste (MSW) and hazardous waste (HW). As a result of the multibillion dollar funding for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), most experts believe that pollution control is the key to minimizing toxic emissions from incinerators. This view is now beginning to take hold in medical waste (MW) incineration as well. However, the authors contributing to this book have concluded that precombustion measures can be most effective in reducing the toxic products of medical waste incineration.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. 0442008198. Library stamps/marks/labels, corner rub, light spine sun, light cock, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "advocating precombustion measures as the most effective way of reducing the toxic products of medical waste incineration....The first book to focus on pollution prevention, it applies the lessons of clean combustion technology to destruction of medical wastes. In so doing, it follows the natural subdivisions of that technology, from precombustion measures, through ash treatment and disposal. Along the way, the book covers several new areas, including modeling toxic emissions from medical waste incineration, lowering dioxin emissions, the relationship between input and output, and substitute plastics."; Ex-Library; xiv, 213 pages.