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THE WASHINGTON State county that currently processes
Lio-hazardous waste from Lions Gate Hospital and other
Lower Mainland health facilities has passed a bylaw bann-
ing the importation of such waste.

But a representative of BFI
Medical Waste Systems, the Co-
quitlam) company that packages
and transports the potentially in-
fectious waste to the Ferndale in-
cinerator in Whatcom County,
Washington, says the bylaw will

the disposal of bio-
hazardous waste from its B.C. cus-
tomers.

not affect

portation of L

The Whatcom county ordinance,
which was passed Aug. 10 and is
scheduled to come into effect Jan.
I, 1990, prohibits ‘‘the importa-
tion of all medical waste generated
outside the territorial limits of
Whatcom County.*’

Bio-hazardous or potentially in-
fectious medical waste includes
human tissue, pathological waste,
hypodermic needles, syringes,
scalpel blades, blood and biood

and

animal
body parts and material from in-
fectious patients.

Passage of the ordinance follows

products, carcasses

pollution concerns raised by
Whatcom County citizens over the
burning of imported medical waste
in the Ferndale incinerator.

But Wade Musseau, manager of
BFI’s B.C. medica! waste division,
said the ordinance will likely be
ruled unconstitutional by U.S.

courts as was a similar attempt by
New Jersey to restrict the importa-
tion of garbage into that state.

The company, he said, has also
secured all the available ‘burn
time’ allotted to medical waste at
the incinerator.

“So it’s a non-issue,”
said.

{In addition, BFI will seek ap-

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