Table 2.
Average amount of infectious waste and total general medical waste by type of medical establishment in Taiwan
| Type | Infectious wastea |
General medical wastea |
% Infectious |
No. of beds |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tons/yr | kg/bed/day | Tons/yr | kg/bed/day | % | ||
| Medical centers | 268 (282) | 0.60 (0.36) | 1287 (1060) | 3.26 (1.01) | 17.2 | 21,586 |
| Regional hospitals | 70.3 (48.4) | 0.44 (0.22) | 456 (310) | 3.04 (2.63) | 13.4 | 36,817 |
| Local hospitals | 18.8 (11.2) | 0.88 (1.34) | 131 (114) | 2.41 (1.37) | 12.6 | 6,276 |
| Clinics and others | 7.6 (23.0) | 0.19 (0.38) | 108 (128) | 2.60 (0.96) | 6.6 | 3,456 |
a
Numbers in parentheses are standard deviations.