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