With all the changes in laws over the past few years, how do you stay on top of everything to make sure you are compliant? Medical Waste Services strives to provide our clients with the most up to date information and regulations within the medical waste and document destruction industries. They are very regulated and penalties could be extremely severe.

After medical wastes were found among other wastes washing up on several East Coast beaches, concern over the potential health hazards prompted Congress to enact the Medical Waste Tracking Act (MWTA) in 1988. The Act required EPA to create a two-year Medical Waste Demonstration Program. For the purposes of this two-year program the MWTA:

• Defined medical waste and those wastes to be regulated;
• Established a cradle to grave tracking system utilizing a generator initiated tracking form;
• Required management standards for segregation, packaging, labeling and marking, and storage of the waste; and
• Established record keeping requirements and penalties that could be imposed for mismanagement.