Types of Waste:

• Chemical waste
• Sharps
• Biomedical waste - “Red Bag”
• Regular trash – “Black Bag”
• Radioactive waste

Chemical Waste:

• Ignitables
• Corrosives
• Reactives
• Toxics

Chemical waste disposal:

• Use appropriate containers
• Do not mix chemicals
• Label containers with Hazardous Waste Label
• Waste disposal is made through a licensed contractor

Sharps include:

• All needles
• Scalpel blades
• Pipettes
• Capillary tubes
• Syringes
• Blood vials
• Contaminated glass culture dishes
• Contaminated glassware

Discard all sharps into impervious sharps container immediately after use.

Biomedical Waste -“Red Bag”

• Human blood and blood products

     ¨Waste human blood

     ¨Items saturated or dripping with blood

     ¨Items caked with dried human blood

• Human pathological waste

     ¨ Tissues

     ¨ Organs

     ¨ Body Parts

     ¨ Body Fluids

• Contaminated Waste from patients on Isolation Procedures
• Cultures and Stocks of Infectious Agents and Associated Biologicals

     ¨  Specimen cultures

     ¨  Discarded live and attenuated vaccines

          ¨  Culture dishes

          ¨  Devices used to transfer, inoculate and mix cultures

Discard all “Red Bag” waste into Red bags immediately after use.  Place red bad into biomedical waste container in dirty utility room.

Regular Trash

• Paper
• Metal cans
• Newspapers and magazines
• Ordinary trash
• Plastics
• Packaging materials
• Food waste

Discard all regular trash in black bags.  Place in trash container in dirty utility room.

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