Waste Disposal and PPE

What is PPE

Personal Protective Equipment - long pants, closed toe shoes, hair back, gloves, safety goggles, knee length lab coat

Solid biohazardous waste (non-sharps)

disposable non-glass materials used to handle, transport, or clean biohazardous waste (anything with infectious agents or animal/human bodily fluids)

What are some examples of biohazardous waste (List 3)?

petri dishes, inoculating loops containing bacteria, gloves used to handle biohazardous waste (even if direct contact did not occur)

Solid bioharadous waste (sharps)

Sharp items ONLY

Examples of solid biohazardous waste (List one)

microscope slides with blood on them

Clean glass

not a sharps bin, clean glass only

Examples of clean glass waste

broken, unused slide, broken glass pipette (clean)

Solid chemical waste

disposable non-glass materials that have had contact with or been used in the handling of hazardous chemicals (any chemical that requires special liquid waste disposal)

Examples of solid chemical waste

gloves used to handle hazardous chemicals, paper towels used to clean up hazardous chemicals, plastic pipette tips used with hazardous chemicals

Solid chemical waste (sharps)

NOT an alternate all-purpose chemical waste bin; sharps only

Examples of Solid chemical waste (sharps)

broken prepared slides, used microscope slides with carcinogenic stains

Examples of liquid chemical waste

gram strain waste, Cyhalothrin (pesticide)