While many medical waste disposal companies are doing their best to manage the waste generated by businesses and medical institutions, as well as contaminated or dangerous debris generated through research, there is a more insidious and uncontrollable area to concern ourselves with. Illegal operations and undertakings particularly in the drug world can release small amounts of biohazardous material into the streets and general garbage disposal systems of our cities. This happens all the time as the waste, be it used syringes and crack pipes or containers and other materials used to create drugs like crystal meth are being disposed of cavalierly by untrained people more concerned with their next fix than our collective safety.

Controlling these unruly and very dangerous hazards are difficult for anyone attempting to do so. The drug trade provides a dangerous view into what a completely unregulated world of hazardous waste disposal might look like and the picture is quite bleak. Luckily illicit drug activity is not the standard of human behavior and in most cases law enforcement is making efforts to not only shut down these sort of labs but once they do to dispose of the materials within in a safe and responsible manner.