A garbage list issued recently by the Ministry of Health classifies used disposable medical instruments as medical garbage, which bans their direct recycling.

MOH issued the list to regulate the practice of medical instrument recycling in medical institutions across the nation.

Disposable medical instruments including hypodermic tubes, needles and other equipments, no matter how they were used in patient's body, are banned to be directly recycled after disinfection or other medical use, according to MOH.

Used disposable medical instruments should be treated as medical garbage, said the list.

According to the list, disposable plastic bottles and glass bottles containing liquid medicine do not belong to medical garbage and allowed to be recycled for non-original purposes if not stained by users' body fluid or excrement.

Source: Xinhua