How is OSS waste divided?

“Medical Waste” is defined as waste that derives from public and private structures that carry out medical and veterinary activities of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and research (Presidential Decree no. 254/2003, art. 2).

Pursuant to current legislation, medical waste is divided into the following types:

1. non-hazardous medical waste;
2. medical waste assimilated to municipal waste;
3. hazardous medical waste not at risk of infection;
4. hazardous medical waste at risk of infection;
5. medical waste that requires special disposal systems;
6. waste from exhumations and burials, as well as waste from other cemetery activities, excluding vegetable waste from cemetery areas;
7. special waste, produced outside healthcare facilities, which in terms of risk is similar to hazardous waste with an infectious risk, with the exception of sanitary napkins.