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Trauma Scene Waste: <br />Waste that may be collected at times when ambulance service providers and other emergency <br />responders deliver patients for medical attention. <br />Sharps waste means any devise having acute rigid corners, edges, or protuberances capable of cutting or <br />� ^ <br />Hypodermic needles, hypodermic needles with syringes, blades, needles with attached tubing, syringes <br />contaminated with bimhazendouowaste, acupuncture needles, and root canal files, broken glass items, <br />� <br />such as Pasteur pipettes and blood vials contaminated with biohazard waste and any item capable of <br />cutting orpiercing that iucontaminated with trauma scene waste. <br />Pharmaceutical Waste: (MWMA, Section <br />� <br />/ <br />Waste medications whether partial dose vials or any and all such waste that contains medications with the <br />� <br />� <br />exceptionm <br />ofoh�otmp <br />heeuboa . <br />� ^ <br />Chemotherapeutic VVmsteTr ooemountanfohemotherapeutiommsta,"ChemdherapeuUougent"meona <br />an agent that kills orprevents the reproduction oymalignant cells. <br />^ <br />Pharmaceutical Hazardous Waste — RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Actof1Q78.ae <br />amended (42 U.S.C.A. Seo. 6901 eta*q.). Pharmaceutical waste from medications which is deemed <br />hazardous bythe federal government. <br />No Attachments <br />Medical Waste Definitions o'Type, o -8«z0 -o Retrieved m//azo/aOfficial copy at icx/750894/ Page 2nf2 <br />