Articles: Dental & Medical

Dental and medical professionals provide healthcare every day with the help of various tools, many of which can be recycled when disposed of properly. While...

Recycling mercury-containing waste goes a long way in protecting the environment, but did you know that there are additional benefits? Mercury is found...

Dentists have long used dental amalgam to fill cavities in teeth, but practitioners are increasingly recycling old amalgam instead of discarding it. Dental...

Keeping us healthy and treating us when we are sick requires a wide range of different types of medical equipment. So, is broken medical equipment recyclable? It...

These days Ecocycle is best known as a specialist recycler of mercury, but when it began back in 1996 as Ecocycle Industries, the focus was all on recovery...

Dental amalgam does a great job in combating tooth decay, but they don’t last forever and often need replacing. If old amalgam fillings are discarded...

Ecocycle’s original interest in medical waste was in the recovery of mercury from instruments such as thermometers and sphygmomanometers (blood pressure...

The Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch (ADAVB) has put its weight behind the proposals the Federal Government has set out for its ratification...

Hospitals are among our most important institutions, but in working to restore and maintain health, they create large amounts of waste. In Victoria, public...