English for Environmental Issues Part 5

At a time when households are required to separate and dispose of their garbage, more careful measures are needed for the disposal of waste from medical facilities. We have therefore investigated what methods are being used.

According to the "2007 White Paper on the Environment and the Sound Material-Cycle Society,

In order to prevent illegal dumping of medical waste, a demonstration test of medical waste traceability is currently being conducted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo Medical Association, the pharmaceutical industry, and industrial waste disposers by attaching IC tags to medical waste containers. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo Medical Association, the pharmaceutical industry, and industrial waste disposal companies are participating in the study.

In order to prevent illegal dumping of medical waste, a traceability verification test of medical waste is performed by the Tokyo metropolitan government, the Tokyo Medical Association, pharmaceutical government, the Tokyo Medical Association, pharmaceutical industry and industrial waste management businesses, where IC tags are affixed to medical waste containers to check in real time Medical waste containers to check in real time where individual consigned medical waste is and whether or not it has been disposed of.

Review of Terms

Medical waste = medical waste

Medical waste containers = medical waste containers

Illegal dumping = illegal dumping

Illegal dumping of medical waste = illegal dumping of medical waste

Verification test

A traceability verification test

The Tokyo Medical Association

Pharmaceutical industry = pharmaceutical industry

Industrial waste management businesses

In the case of "medical waste containers," the word "medical waste containers" is used without translating the "of" as if it were a single word, and in the case of "illegal dumping of medical waste," there is "illegal dumping of medical waste.

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