Waste Disposal Requirements

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Waste Disposal Requirements
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• Waste disposal procedures are required by the
  Occupational Health and Safety Administration
  (OSHA).
• We must follow these disposal procedures to
  remain in compliance.
• All students are expected to know and follow the
  following waste disposal procedures.

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Animal Tissues

• All animal tissues will be placed in clear
  plastic bags. Whenever possible keep the
  different samples separate. (E.g. cow eyes in
  one bag, pig kidneys in another. )

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Broken Glass

• Lab Glass waste will go into the blue hard
  plastic buckets for recycling. Any glass that is
  contaminated with bacteria must go into the
  sharps containers. Chemical contamination will be
  dealt with on a case by case basis.(If unsure,
  bag or box glass separately to be dealt with
  later.)

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Biohazard Waste

• This waste stream is unchanged except for the
  barring of animal tissues.
• REMINDER these red bags are for non sharp
  biologically contaminated wastes plates, gloves,
  soft transfer pipets. Nothing that would poke
  through the red bags.

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Biohazard Waste

• These hard plastic sealable buckets are for SHARP
  biological wastes that would poke through the
  plastic bags.
• Sharp objects such as scalpel blades, needles,
  broken glass or pipette tips contaminated with
  bacteria, etc.

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Animal Tissues

• YES
• Dissected materials (preserved)
• String used to tie down dissection specimen
• No
• Dissection tools
• Paper towels from clean up, as these can go in
  the regular trash.

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Broken Glass

• YES
• Broken glass.
• Used Slides (no bacteria).
• No
• Glass Tubes with microbiology media inside.
• Glass that is contaminated with microbes or with
  hazardous chemicals.

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Biohazard Waste

• YES
• Microbiology plates (plastic)
• Plastic loops, micro centrifuge tubes.
• No
• Glass of any kind
• Objects that would likely poke through the bags
• Preserved specimens from dissections.

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Biohazard Waste

• YES
• Metal and glass objects
• Pipet tips used with bacterial cultures
• No
• Paper towels, gloves or other bulky soft items.