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Proper Waste and Linen Segregation & Disposal by Container Type <br /> CORE LABORATORY <br /> Biohazardous Sharps Waste-Red Sharps Waste-Red Sharps Soiled Linen-White Bag Universal Waste—Used Biohazardous <br /> Waste-Red Bag Sharps Container Container Batteries Waste-Red Ba <br /> ❑ Blood tubing/ ❑ All sharps ❑ Trocars,introducers. <br /> bags/hemovacs Example: guide wires,sharps from Hamper-style Area accumulation Large aggregation/haul-off <br /> /pleurevacs needles,lancets, procedures,specimen accumulation container container cart <br /> ❑ Soaked/ needle counters, devices in endoscopy,etc <br /> dripping broken glass ❑ Soiled,non-infectious ❑ Used Consumer-Type ❑ Primary bagged waste <br /> bloody vials,broken ❑ All sharps linens Batteries including: placed in this lined cart <br /> dressings ampules, blades, Example:needles, ❑ Alkaline to ensure double- <br /> L3 Intact glass or scalpels, razors, lancets, needle counters. ❑ Carbon-Zinc bagging requirement. <br /> plastic bottles pins,clips,staples broken glass vials, ❑ Mercuric Oxide <br /> with bloody broken ampoules, ❑ Nickel-Cadmium <br /> fluid or OPIM; ❑ Trocars, blades,scalpels,razors. ❑ Other rechargeable <br /> with little risk introducers,guide pins,clips,staples batteries <br /> of breakage. wires,sharps from <br /> ❑ Suction liners procedures,sharp ❑ Small Universal Waste <br /> with bloody specimen devices Electronic Devices <br /> fluid or OPIM in endoscopy,etc. (UWEDs) <br /> ❑ All disposable <br /> items soaked, Note: Do not place Use: Keep securely <br /> dripping or containers of closed;call EVS for <br /> caked with "recognizable fluid pickup when near-full or <br /> blood or OPIM blood"into 2 or 4-gal container labeling <br /> Note: sharps containers. approaches one-year <br /> OPIM=Other dating. _ <br /> Potentially Note: For large items, <br /> Infectious Material use the 8 or 17-gal Z <br /> sharps container with ;n .- <br /> Note: <br /> Note: No sharps foot pedal activated `M D <br /> or potential sharps lid. <br /> items. rMr <br /> ca s� <br /> �M o C <br /> r 17 <br /> i <br />