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Page 1 of 2 <br />From: Benjamin Escotto [EH] <br />Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:29 PM <br />To: 'M. Brown' <br />Subject: RE: Questions <br />Attachments: medical waste guide.pdf <br />Dear Marklin, <br />I have attached a guide sheet for proper segregation and disposal of the different streams of medical waste. To <br />answer your questions: <br />1. Needless empty syringes can go into the regular garbage so long as there is no needle and the syringe <br />does not have any blood, bodily fluid, pourable medication, etc. <br />2. Glass medication vials can go into the regular garbage so long as the glass is not broken (no sharp) and <br />there is no blood, <br />bodily fluid, pourable medication, etc. <br />3. I'm not sure what a needless single dose spike is, but if the syringe and anything connected is empty (no <br />blood, bodily fluid, pourable medication) and there is no sharp (no needle) ... then it can go in the regular <br />garbage. <br />Any sharp material (except contaminated with chemo) must go into a sharps container. Anything contaminated <br />with chemo must go into a chemo container. Anything with residual (pourable) medication must go into a <br />pharmaceutical container. Anything with blood or bodily fluid must go into a biohazard container. Hope this <br />helps. <br />Ben Escotto <br />REHS <br />From: M. Brown [mailto:yakot@lodinet.com] <br />Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:34 PM <br />To: Benjamin Escotto [EH] <br />Subject: Questions <br />would like to refresh the staff about what items go where in the waste stream. Would you clarify the <br />answers to these questions? <br />Specific questions are, <br />1) Needless empty syringes are tossed in <br />a) Sharps container <br />b) Garbage <br />c) Either <br />Glass Medication Vials that are empty are tossed in <br />a) Blue and White Incinerator containers <br />b) Sharps <br />c) Garbage <br />d) A and C <br />An empty vial syringe connected by a needless single dose spike is tossed <br />7/28/2011 <br />