The majority of surveyed dentists (71%, 172 respondents) did not perform waste segregation.
For instance, only 28% of practitioners (68 respondents) segregated sharp waste in an appropriate container.
Municipal waste bags were the most common way of collecting any kind of waste(sharps [59% of respondents], infectious waste [89% of respondents], expired pharmaceutical products [70% of respondents],amalgam [57% of respondents] and other hazardous material [100%of respondents]).