February 21, 1991

MEMORANDUM FOR Occupants of building 235

Subject:    Disposal of Broken Glass, Sharps, and Biohazardous Waste

I would like to remind everyone of the proper disposal methods for broken glass, sharps and biohazardous materials:

1. Broken glass (non-biohazardous/non-radioactive) may be placed either in the containers provided for broken glass (available in the chemistry store room) or in a cardboard box, lined with plastic if there is danger of leakage and directly disposed of in the dumpster. Under no circumstances should NON-CONTAMINATED broken glass be placed in the RED biohazardous waste containers.



2. Non-contaminated sharps (needles) should be disposed of in the red biohazardous containers to avoid the danger of someone being pricked by a used sharp. Used syringes (without needles) should be disposed as appropriate to their level of contamination



3. The red containers labeled for BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE, should ONLY by used for the disposal of biohazardous waste and sharps. NON-contaminated material should not be placed in the red containers. ALL red containers must, by law be disposed of as biohazardous material that it can dispose of each month, thus these containers may not be used for regular waste. Further details of the procedures for the handling and disposal of biohazardous waste can be found in the Health and Safety Instruction no 19.



4. All radioactive contaminated materials should be disposed of via Health Physics.

Last modified 27-March-2002