Every day, a hospital produces at least three pounds of usedneedles, bloody bandages, discarded gallbladders and other infectiouswaste for each of its beds.
Most of this waste from 32,000 Chicago area hospital beds isburned in aging hospital incinerators that environmentalists sayendanger public health.
Hospitals, of course, are supposed to make people healthy. Butat least 45 Chicago area hospital incinerators spew toxic compoundsthat have been linked to cancer, learning disorders, breathingdifficulties and other ills.
There's a second irony involving infectious waste fromhospitals, nursing homes, doctors, dentists and veterinarians:
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