1.   A Postal official said this week there was no medical waste in the bags, only boxes containing medical products.

2.   But the company can credit its own missteps, from excessive dumping to improper transport of medical waste, for many of its problems here in the Piedmont.

3.   Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, which used Browning-Ferris for medical wastes, asked that year for a bid on general trash.

4.   DPH has already hired a medical waste disposal firm to handle medical waste that was previously destroyed in the incinerator.

5.   Four months earlier, a French TV crew said it discovered two bags of medical waste, which it said was dumped by two Postal workers.

6.   Hazardous medical wastes are required to be placed in special red bags that carry a warning and disposed of in special landfills or by incineration.

7.   In another case last year in Florida, a state investigation discovered mass graves, dozens of misplaced bodies and mounds of medical waste buried in a cemetery.

8.   In a postindustrial economy, it became a choice spot to unload everything from cars and construction debris to medical waste and paper.

9.   Instead, it goes into landfills, is incinerated as medical waste, allowing it to escape into the air, or flows into wastewater.

10.   Instead the Kansas City funeral home that received the bodies in February apparently bagged them as medical waste and carted them off to be incinerated with refuse.