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This is where you would dispose of non-contaminated gloves used only with non-hazadrous materials

What is trash?  

100

This is where you would dispose of pipette tips used to transfer lentiviral vectors

What is Biological (Sharps)?

100

This is where you dispose of non-contaminated broken glass.

Sharps container (or broken glass container if the lab wants to purchase) 

100

This is where you would dispose of old lithium ion batteries

What is Universal waste (batteries)

100

This is where you would dispose of trizol contaminated pipette tips

Chemical (solid) 

200

This is the waste stream used to dispose of a needle used to inject a mouse.

What is Biological (sharps)? 

200

This is where you would dispose of waste reagents from phenol-chloroform extractions.

What is Chemical (liquid)?

200

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? 

200

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

200

This is where you would dispose of fixed human kidney histological sample on a glass slide

What is Biological (sharps)?

300

This is where you would dispose of gloves used for handling blood and saliva samples

What is Biological (soft) waste?

300

This is where you would dispose of an empty ethanol bottle.

Recycling (after triple rinse and deface) 

300

This is where you would dispose of agarose gels containing <10 PPM of ethidium bromide

Trash 

300

This is who needs to be contacted for disposal of S35 radiolabeled tissue samples. 

Who is PennEHRS 

400

This is where you would dispose of spill pads used for cleaning up a formalin spill.

What is chemical (solid)?

400

This is where you would dispose of spill pads used for defrosting your -80C freezer used for patient sample storage.

What is Biological (soft)? 

400

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

400

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. 

500

This is the waste stream where you would dispose of aspirated plasma from centrifuged human blood samples.

What is Biological (liquid)? 

500

This is how you should disposed of expired/unused DMEM media.

What is drain disposal for media and recycle plastic container?

500

This is the waste stream for disposing of pig hearts that have been fixed in formalin

What is chemical (solid)? 

500

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.