Table 2.

The main components of medical wastes.

Components	Samples	Contents (%)
Plastics	Syringe, blood bag, drug packaging, medical bottles, infusion set, one-off medical glove, bowls	39.30–50.00
Textiles	Gauze, bedding, cotton pads, disposable diapers, absorbent cotton, towels, caps, masks	14.00–31.00
Papers	Used tissue, toilet paper, printer paper	11.15–25.10
Glass	Used slides and cover glass, glass bottles	0.30–22.70
Woodware	Bamboo stick, swab	3.17–20.00
Rubber	Nitrile gloves, rubber tourniquet, catheter	3.40–6.60
Metals	Scalpel, scissors, needles, surgical saws	0.30–5.00
Others	Food waste, medicine, human tissue, vaccines	1.40–18.60

Sources: Hong et al. (2018); Zroychikov et al. (2018); Ilyas et al. (2020); Zhang et al. (2016); Qin et al. (2018b); Mohseni-Bandpei et al. (2019); Zolfagharpour et al. (2020); Gerasimov et al. (2019); Graikos et al. (2010); Xie et al. (2009).