Singapore, March 14 -- A medical waste treatment system, which is capable of 99.99 percent sterilisation by using high-temperature and high-pressure steam, has been developed for the first time in Korea.

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has succeeded in developing an on-site-disposal type medical waste sterilisation system that can help to resolve the problem caused by medical waste, which has become a national and social issue as the volume of medical waste continues to increase every year.

This project was launched as a basic business support programme of KIMM and was expanded into a demonstration project of Daejeon Metropolitan City. Then, i...