12 - Wednesday, April 24, 1991 - North Shore News

DISPOSAL COSTS of biomedical waste from = Lions
Gate Hospital and other Lower Mainland health-care
facilities may triple if the Greater Vancouver Regional
District (GVRD) gets its way. The GVRD board favors
incineration of potentially infectious waste such as
sealpels and body parts, instead of allowing a private
Port Coquitlam company to sicerilize the material before

Anna Marie
D’Angelo

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INQUIRING REPORTER

How should biomedical waste be

disposing of it in landfills. GVRD direciors believe in-
cincration is a safer method than sterilizing by autoclave
with subsequent landfill disposal. But burning infectious
waste would require costly updating of hospital in-
cineraiors or the establishment of a main central in-
cinerator by 1993.

disposed?

Eva Babis

North Vancouver

1 think they should deal
with it as locally as
possible without
polluting the air.

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Mary Greenwood

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I think it is worth the
cost for Lions Gate
Hospital -o incinerate it
here. { don’t think we
should be putting our
waste in everyone else's
backyard.

A.N. Noordam
Port Coquitlam

The best thing to do is
get one or two hospitals
in the Lower Mainland
to build high-tech in-
cinerators and all hospi-
tals ship their waste
there.

Linda Brown

North Vancouver

There should be a better
choice than what we
have, but probably
mankind won’t be able
to come up with it.

W.G, Larman

North Vancouver

It should be incinerated
at one central place in
the province but not at

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