I believe they all have incinerators, but I believe many hospitals don’t use them, and contract it out to companies that pick it up. If Ebola gets a foothold here, I’d buy as many shares of Waste Management that I could get my dollars on, or any other company that handles such waste. I’d assume Waste Management does, given their size.
A fifty gallon drum of bleach per hospital ought to go a long way to assist in this regard.
Even if they don’t have a hazardous waste division now they are probably thinking of forming one.
Waste Management (WM) 3.40% current dividend yield
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WM
Our local hospital shut down its incinerator around 10 years ago.
Why?
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