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PROPER MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL <br />p <br />RETURN TO <br />PHARMACY <br />Regular waste: <br />Biohazardous <br />Pathology Waste <br />Sharps: <br />Chemo Waste: <br />Pharmaceutical <br />Hazardous <br />Waste: <br />Waste: <br />Pharmaceutical <br />Waste (RCRA): <br />Clear Bags <br />Red Bags <br />Red Bags <br />Sharps Containers <br />Yellow boxes <br />Blue and White <br />Return to Pharmacy <br />containers <br />-IV bags and tubing <br />-Blood and all OPIM <br />Pathology Waste <br />-All sharps (except those <br />Trace chemo: <br />-All syringes, tubexes, <br />-Hazardous R.C.R.A" <br />-Empty medication vials <br />Other Potentially <br />includes all biopsy <br />contaminated with chemo) <br />-All supplies used to <br />carpujects with residual <br />Pharmaceuticals: <br />or containers <br />Infectious Materials) <br />materials and all human <br />make and administer <br />(pourable) medication. <br />Return to Pharmacy. <br />Trash/wrappers <br />Blood tubing/ bags/ <br />tissues and anatomical <br />Examples: needles, <br />chemo medication. <br />Example: Inhalers with <br />-Dressings <br />hemovacs/pleuravacs <br />parts that emanate from <br />surgical, obstetrical, <br />broken glass vials, broken <br />Example: tubing, empty <br />SIV bags and tubing with <br />residual (if empty - regular <br />trash), unused nicotine <br />-�Chux/underpads <br />Soaked/dripping bloody <br />autopsy and laboratory <br />ampules, blades, <br />bags/bottles/vials, <br />residual medication. <br />gum or patches, <br />dressings <br />procedures. <br />scalpels, razors, ins, clips <br />p p p <br />syringes, gloves, pads, <br />epinephrine (salts not <br />Empty foley bags and <br />-Intact glass or plastic <br />with OPIMetc. <br />masks, gowns, wipes, <br />included), <br />, udencld) physostigmine, <br />other drainage bags <br />bottles with body fluids <br />etc. <br />etc. <br />-Disposable patient <br />-All disposables soaked <br />Containers shall be <br />-All empty syringes with <br />-Partially used/ residual <br />items <br />or dripping with blood or <br />labeled with the words <br />attached needles, empty <br />prescription or over -the- <br />-Sanitary napkins <br />OPIM <br />"Pathology Waste" or <br />tubexes, empty carpujects. <br />Return all unused <br />counter medication. <br />-Gloves <br />-Contaminated waste <br />"PATH" and the waste <br />Chemo to Pharmacy in <br />Example: vials, tablets, <br />from isolation patients <br />shall be segregated from <br />original bag for <br />capsules, powders, <br />41 <br />—Suction canisters or <br />other red bag waste. <br />-Trocars, introducers, guide <br />disposal <br />eyedrops, suppositories, <br />liners with bloody fluid or <br />wires, sharps from <br />etc. <br />OPIM <br />procedures, specimen <br />devices in endoscopy, etc. <br />Wasted narcotics and/or <br />"Federal Resource <br />controlled drugs <br />Conservation and <br />Recovery Act (RCRA) <br />Unopened/Unused or <br />expired medications: <br />Return to Pharmacv <br />