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Waste Stream: Sharps Disposal <br />Containers <br />• Needles and sharps <br />• Scalpels <br />• Razors <br />• Surgical Pins, clips, staples <br />• Broken glass vials <br />• Capillary tubes <br />• Glass syringes <br />NOTE: Do NOT put tubing, <br />alcohol swabs, gauze, tape, <br />or pharmaceutical waste <br />into sharps container <br />Waste Stream: Pharmaceuticals <br />• Partially used or wasted prescription or over-the- <br />counter medication <br />• tubexes, carpujects with (pourable) medication <br />• IV bags and tubing with (pourable) medication <br />• Do not cut and drain IV fluids into the 8 gallon <br />containers as this can create a "chemical cocktail' <br />of free flowing liquids. Please leave any partial, <br />leftover pourable medications in the IV bag and <br />place the entire bag into the 8 gallon container. <br />• Examples: vials, tablets, capsules, powders, <br />liquids, creams/lotions, eye drops, suppositories, <br />Ria.K tablets <br />Narcotic patches (cut in half) Example: Fentanyl <br />patch <br />Unopened or expired Medications: <br />Return to Pharmacy <br />Waste Stream: Biohazard Waste, Red <br />Bag & Containers <br />11/9/2016 <br />• ANY item contaminated with <br />I�/drippable/pourable blood or <br />other body fluids <br />• Dressings, gauze, bandages, drapes <br />• Pleurovaa <br />• Laboratory specimens & transport <br />bags <br />• Transfusion bags and tubing sets <br />• Drainage tubes and reservoirs (JP or <br />hemovac) <br />• Culture plates <br />• Autotransfusers (constavacs, <br />orthopats) <br />NOTE: Do not transport non- <br />hazardous items in red specimen zip <br />lock bags <br />Waste Stream: Hazardous <br />Pharmaceuticals (RCRA) <br />Disposable RCRA Container Pharmaceutical agents defined in the <br />"Resource Conservation and Recovery <br />Act" (RCRA) 1976 that are too toxic for <br />regular pharmaceutical waste stream. <br />Warfarin (Coumadin) <br />• Nitroglycerin: tabs, injectable &spray <br />• Undiluted Insulins: <br />— Novolin Regular, NPH, 70/30 <br />NovoLOG <br />— Aspart 100 unb/ml <br />NPH 100 unxs/ml <br />Chemo Bulk (in Pharmacy) : <br />Open chemo ampules and glass vials <br />Oral Chemo <br />1 <br />