March+9

Medical Waste

Problems
 * Waste ending on the beach
 * marine life
 * Unintended illness from children's interaction with waste
 * blood born diseases
 * How does the amount time that you spend with waste effect health
 * Economics- does medical waste effect social classes differently
 * Lack of recycling and reusing
 * varying state regulation on waste
 * electronic waste

Solutions
 * Companies
 * their solutions
 * Machinery
 * Government Policies
 * Recycling and reusing programs
 * green chemical cleaning products
 * building materials

Introduction

Last week Grace got home from the hospital after suffering from cancer for a year. She went through weeks of chemotherapy, and now she is cancer free. However, now all the chemicals that were used in the chemotherapy are flowing through the oceans causing sicknesses for many of the animals living there. _____fish are now dying out from the high levels of chemicals.The local fishing economy is now drastically effected by the lack of ______fish. Many local families are eating the leftover fish that are filled with the wasted chemotherapy chemicals. Yesterday Jack was swimming at the beach that was contaminated with the chemicals that made Grace cancer free. Jack swallowed a mouthful of water that was contaminated. Now he is in the hospital with an unknown illness. Circles of illnesses like this occur everyday. This whole situation could have been prevented very easily through medical waste research.