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Rochester Committee for Scientific Information CPU 276766 River Campus Station Rochester, NY 14627 ____________________________________________________ Bulletin #324 October 1999 ______________________________________________________________________________ Medical Waste Disposal By Joanne Mitchell Introduction The health care industry in the United States generates a huge amount of solid waste. Hospitals alone produce approximately two million tons of waste a year, a figure that has doubled on a per patient basis since 1955. Only about 10-15% of hospital waste is inf