Disclosed is a cartridge for medical and hospital waste, which comprises: a tubular body (1) provided with a base (3) and which is folded flat along the centre of the base (3) and along folding lines (12) on the tubular body, forming a flat body that can be stored easily; and a grid (2) made of sheets of card, which is disposed folded inside the tubular body (1) and which, when the cartridge is unfolded, opens to occupy the entire inside surface of the cartridge, defining cavities for receiving the medical waste. The base (3) can be formed from stiff card.

An infectious waste treatment system and method for decontaminating infectious waste employ a thermal friction extruder (20) in which first and second interleaved counter-rotatable augers (40, 42) driven by a variable speed motor include reverse pitch flight sections (62, 72) that urge waste material in a direction opposite to that of the flow stream and into engagement with the back sides of friction plates (50, 52). This increases the amount of heat generated by the extruder. The reverse pitch flight sections can be selectively replaced with forward pitch flight sections to control the amount of heat imparted to the waste material by the friction plates. The size of gaps between the friction plates and the augers is selected along with the motor speed to impart enough heat and friction to the waste material, such that the resulting processed material has an increased BTU value, a consistency and aggregate size such that it can readily be injected as fuel into a cement kiln's fuel injection system, thereby completely disposing of the material.

A medication disposal apparatus includes a collection chamber to receive a medication having an active agent. The collection chamber includes a receiver having a one-way opening. The one-way opening receives the medication in the collection chamber and to impede the medication from exiting the collection chamber through the receiver. The collection chamber includes a first converter to receive the medication and/or convert the medication into a plurality of particles. The first converter is housed in the collection chamber and/or may receive the medication from the collection chamber. The first converter has a grinder with a plurality of rollers operable to convert the medication into the plurality of particles. The first converter includes a motor powered by a power source. The apparatus includes a reservoir fastened to the collection chamber and apparatus includes a second converter.

A medical waste treatment machine with anti-clogging function includes a treatment barrel, a discharge port set at the bottom of the treatment barrel, and a discharge mechanism set at the discharge port. The discharge mechanism includes a discharge bin fixedly connected in the discharge port, provided with an auxiliary member at an end connected to the treatment barrel; the auxiliary member includes a flip shaft fixedly provided with an auxiliary plate extending into the treatment barrel, the flip shaft is connected to the inner wall of the discharge bin with torsion springs, when the device is not in use, the auxiliary plate being tilted downward from outside to inside along the radial direction of the treatment barrel by the action of the torsion springs. The treatment barrel is provided with an abutting assembly at the bottom of the treatment barrel, being capable of intermittently abutting with the auxiliary plate.

Efficient and adequate disposal of medical infectious waste is proportional to the reduction of the spread of infectious diseases and the disease itself among humans. The essence of this invention is that infectious medical waste is in a timely, fast, efficient, simple, and environmentally friendly safely disposed of and turned into inert-municipal waste. Previous methods and devices for the disposal of infectious medical waste involved long-term procedures for the collection, sorting and storage of infectious medical waste, which increases the risk of secondary infections. This invention skips the process of collecting, sorting and storing medical infectious waste, and the entire process in the invention takes place in three unbreakable phases whose end product is municipal-inert waste. It is important to emphasize that with this invention, even the smallest amount of infectious medical waste will be disposed of immediately in an appropriate manner. And as a result, a maximum control over all medical infectious waste is achieved.

A tool-integrated medical waste sterilization processing barrel includes a treatment barrel, a discharge port set at a bottom edge of the treatment barrel, and an integrated cutting tool is provided at the bottom of the treatment barrel; the integrated cutting tool includes a mounting block in a shape of truncated square pyramid, the mounting block has a cutter on each bevel, the cutter is in a plane parallel to the corresponding bevel of the mounting block, the mounting block has a power chamber with a downward opening, the power chamber has a power member, the input end of the cutter extends into the power chamber and is connected to the output end of the power member, and a rotating member is connected between the mounting block and the treatment barrel.

A high crushing efficiency medical waste treatment machine includes a crushing cylinder, a crushing knife set provided at the bottom of the crushing cylinder, an intermittent material discharge mechanism set on one side of the crushing knife set, a pressurizing mechanism slidingly set along the axis of the crushing cylinder on the other side of the crushing knife set. The pressurizing mechanism includes a mounting frame slidingly connected to the inner wall of the crushing cylinder, the mounting frame rotatably connected to a material tumbling plate made of magnetic material; when the intermittent material discharging mechanism discharges material, the pressurizing mechanism moving in a direction close to the crushing knife set; when the intermittent material discharges mechanism stops discharging material, the material tumbling plate rotates.

A tool-integrated medical waste sterilization processing barrel includes a treatment barrel, a discharge port set at a bottom edge of the treatment barrel, and an integrated cutting tool is provided at the bottom of the treatment barrel; the integrated cutting tool includes a mounting block in a shape of truncated square pyramid, the mounting block has a cutter on each bevel, the cutter is in a plane parallel to the corresponding bevel of the mounting block, the mounting block has a power chamber with a downward opening, the power chamber has a power member, the input end of the cutter extends into the power chamber and is connected to the output end of the power member, and a rotating member is connected between the mounting block and the treatment barrel.

A plant for the processing of waste includes an outer housing and a grinding cell, in which a grinding chamber is defined having at least one inlet opening for introducing the waste to be processed, and at least one outlet opening for discharging the material resulting from waste processing. The openings are associated with a corresponding closure element, adapted to isolate the grinding chamber from the outer environment. The outer housing defines therein a space receiving the grinding cell and integrally surrounds the grinding cell, and in which the space is accessible through at least one door.

A control system for a waste processing apparatus is disclosed. The control system comprises a controller configured to: control an actuator of the waste processing apparatus to move a shredding device of the waste processing apparatus into at least a shred position in which a vessel of the shredding device is able to hold liquid; control a fluid delivery device of the waste processing apparatus to deliver a treatment fluid into the vessel of the shredding device; and control the shredding device to perform a shredding function to shred waste within the vessel of the shredding device.