The current Act provides that a person who intends to carry on the business of collecting, transporting, or disposing of medical wastes shall establish/operate the facilities, equipment and the place of business that collects, transports or disposes of wastes separately from other wastes. However, the real state of things is that medical wastes are rapidly increasing every year, and the number of companies capable of incinerating and disposing of them is only 13 across the country, and that it is difficult to newly establish and build additional facilities because there is a strong awareness that medical waste treatment facilities are disgusting facilities.

Accordingly, the Act aims to obligate business operators who discharge medical waste in large quantities to have the facilities capable of sterilizing or disposing of medical wastes within the their places of business, and to allow them to dispose of medical wastes having no or a low level of fear of infection as prescribed by Presidential Decree together with other wastes without the need for establishing/operating separate facilities/equipment and places of business, thereby resolving the problem of a shortage of medical waste treatment facilities and seeking stable handling of medical wastes.
 
Meanwhile, in the case of unclassified storage by type of medical wastes, only administrative fines are levied on it now; However, in the case of a person who transmitted an infectious disease due to unclassified storage by type of medical wastes, he/she shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding two years or to fines of up to 20 million won to ensure that medical wastes are strictly controlled (Article 17 (1) 4, Article 25 (10), Article 66).

Impose obligations on business operators who discharge medical wastes in large quantities to have the facilities capable of sterilizing or disposing of medical wastes (Article 17 (1) 4).