This is where you would dispose of non-contaminated gloves used only with non-hazadrous materials
What is trash?
This is where you would dispose of pipette tips used to transfer lentiviral vectors
What is Biological (Sharps)?
This is where you dispose of non-contaminated broken glass.
Sharps container (or broken glass container if the lab wants to purchase)
This is where you would dispose of old lithium ion batteries
What is Universal waste (batteries)
This is where you would dispose of trizol contaminated pipette tips
Chemical (solid)
This is the waste stream used to dispose of a needle used to inject a mouse.
What is Biological (sharps)?
This is where you would dispose of waste reagents from phenol-chloroform extractions.
What is Chemical (liquid)?
This is the maximum level fill level for red bags of "soft" biological waste should be filled to before disposal.
What is 2/3 full?
This is when you should submit a chemical waste pickup request
When the container is ~2/3 full OR if the container has been in the lab for >1 year, whichever comes first
This is where you would dispose of fixed human kidney histological sample on a glass slide
What is Biological (sharps)?
This is where you would dispose of gloves used for handling blood and saliva samples
What is Biological (soft) waste?
This is where you would dispose of an empty ethanol bottle.
Recycling (after triple rinse and deface)
This is where you would dispose of agarose gels containing <10 PPM of ethidium bromide
Trash
This is who needs to be contacted for disposal of S35 radiolabeled tissue samples.
Who is PennEHRS
This is where you would dispose of spill pads used for cleaning up a formalin spill.
What is chemical (solid)?
This is where you would dispose of spill pads used for defrosting your -80C freezer used for patient sample storage.
What is Biological (soft)?
This is when household bleach should be added to liquid biological waste to achieve a final concentration of 10% bleach to inactivate prior to disposal.
When container is ~2/3 full OR monthly, whichever comes first
This is where you would dispose of human tissues stored in ethylene glycol.
Dispose of ethylene glycol as chemical waste, then dispose of human tissues in soft waste container.
This is the waste stream where you would dispose of aspirated plasma from centrifuged human blood samples.
What is Biological (liquid)?
This is how you should disposed of expired/unused DMEM media.
What is drain disposal for media and recycle plastic container?
This is the waste stream for disposing of pig hearts that have been fixed in formalin
What is chemical (solid)?
This is where you would dispose of a 50 ml falcon tube containing lysed cells in media treated with 70% ethanol solution.
Ethanol/media solution goes into solvent chemical waste, then empty tube goes into sharps container.