The thesis entitled "Medical Waste Management as an effort to prevent pollution in
Pemalang City (Case Study of Randudongkal Health Center) Puskesmas is a public health
service and first-level individual health effort, by prioritizing promotive and preventive
efforts in its working area. The health centre is a producer of waste, for this reason waste
management can be carried out where this waste management is a series of activities that
include reduction, storage, collection, transportation, utilization, processing, and
landfilling of waste. The purpose of medical waste management is to prevent environmental
pollution, pollution prevention is part of controlling environmental pollution and/or
damage. There are several objectives of preventing pollution, namely to maintain the
continuity of living things on earth. If there are no efforts to prevent environmental
pollution, there will be damage to nature and can threaten living things. This research was
conducted directly to the respondents to obtain primary data as the main data and
supported by secondary data. The results of the study showed that the puskesmas had not
worked optimally due to several constraints. The health centre do not have an incinerator
which makes the health centre cooperate with third parties, and there are officers who
sometimes still do not apply existing provisions.