If small insects or rodents make your skin crawl, this may not be the article for you, but it could help your dental practice avoid catastrophe.
In dental care, procedural single use plastics alone make up an approximate 13.3 tonnes of waste per year; in hospitals, the NHS clinical waste strategy estimates that every bed creates 4.5kg of waste per day, with total annual waste to reach 200,000 tonnes in 2029/30. These large volumes of waste need to be managed safely to protect clinicians, patients, and the wider environment, but also because of the risks they present for pest infestation.
Keeping vermin away from dental practices is paramount to patient and clinician safety, and is possible with knowledge of appropriate waste management routines, and pest control measures.
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