Pharm-Waste
Tablet or capsule forms of hazardous or non-hazardous medications are disposed of here.
What is a black and white RCRA (haz pharm) container?
Wall mounted suction canisters filled with bodily fluids or blood are disposed of here.
What is sewered and then put into a biohazard bag or container?
UPH Meriter meeting notes, patient labels, and documents containing PHI get disposed of in the blue paper shredding bin?
True. Any paper containing PHI or other sensitive information should be shredded.
Pizza boxes?
Trash. The grease and stains left behind contaminate the recycling waste stream.
This is where IV bags without meds added (saline, dextrose, magnesium) get disposed of.
What is sewered and thrown in trash?
Contaminated items that would release biohazard or infectious materials when compressed (pourable, dripable, flakeable) get disposed of here.
What is a red bio-hazard bag or container?
Newspapers, magazines, and catalogs get disposed of in the blue shredding bin?
Styrofoam?
The name of this bin is where non-aerosolizing inhalers get disposed of.
What is blue and white Non-RCRA (non haz pharm) bin?
Items such as needles, razors, scalpels, and lancets go into this bin for disposal.
What is a sharps container?
Copy paper, office documents (not PHI), and post-it notes can get thrown in the trash?
False. These items can go into the blue shredding bin to be shredded even though they don't contain confidential or sensitive information.
Alkaline batteries (AA, AAA, C, D)
Trash. These types of batteries are not easily recycled and are allowed in landfills.
Materials like PPE, gauze, and empty foley bags that have come into contact with hazardous drugs get disposed of here.
What is yellow Trace Chemo bin?
Items such as empty glass medication vials, IV flushing syringes, and clamps should get disposed of here.
What is the general trash?
Plastic med bags with PHI get disposed of in the blue shredding bins?
False. Anything other than paper especially plastic cannot be put in with the paper to be shredded. Plastic med bags with PHI get put into the blue and white Non-RCRA bins.
Plastic bags?
Trash. Unfortunately most recycling waste streams cannot effectively recycle plastic bags. You can always collect them and recycle them at your local grocery store.
Pharmaceutical waste known to be dangerous/hazardous to human health or the environment get placed here for disposal.
What is a black and white RCRA (haz pharm) container?
Items like blood-stained band-aids or tissues go into this bin for disposal.
What is the general trash?
The paper collected in the blue shredding bins goes offsite to be shredded and then taken to the landfill for disposal?
False. The paper gets shredded in the Pellitteri truck while on site then later gets recycled.
Plastic bottles, soda or energy drink cans, cardboard and tagboard?
Recyclable. These items are easily recyclable via our recycling waste stream however if trash gets mixed in with a bag of recycling it is considered contaminated and the whole bag will go into the trash.