The Incinerator Initiative: Managing Medical Waste in Low-Resource Settings

High equipment costs prohibit the appropriate incineration and safe disposal of medical waste for many hospitals in resource-poor countries, leading to contaminated supplies and sharps being landfilled or dumped on roadsides, infecting animals and people with agents that can lead to sepsis, hepatitis and HIV.  A modular, low-cost incineration system developed by this project will be locally built and adapted to meet hospital waste disposal needs.