Medical Equipment: Waste Disposal
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Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many clinical waste operators there are in the UK.
This question was answered on 15th October 2018
Waste policy is a devolved matter and Defra only holds the information requested for England.
There are currently 155 permitted healthcare waste sites in England, run by an estimated 70 operators and subsidiaries. This includes 24 facilities which are permitted for the incineration of healthcare waste, run by 12 different operators.