TCEQ documents indicate the clinics changed waste disposal companies and have been in compliance since May. The clinics' violations lasted three years before officials investigated last year following a complaint. Texas regulations require the disposal of fetuses in specific ways. Stericycle's first step of "steam disinfection" was allowed, but then regulations require the waste be buried, not dumped in a municipal solid waste landfill.
2 Texas abortion clinics fined for fetus disposal
TCEQ documents indicate the clinics changed waste disposal companies and have been in compliance since May. The clinics' violations lasted three years before officials investigated last year following a complaint. Texas regulations require the disposal of fetuses in specific ways. Stericycle's first step of "steam disinfection" was allowed, but then regulations require the waste be buried, not dumped in a municipal solid waste landfill.
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