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Contaminated Laboratory Waste
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How
waste should be collected, packaged and stored in
the laboratory depends on two factors - the risk
level of the waste and the waste's ability to penetrate
or leak from a bag or other container. Waste must
only be collected in containers that it can not
puncture or leak from. With this in mind contaminated
laboratory waste is subdivided into three categories
for the purposes of waste collection in the laboratory.
These categories are:
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Soft
wastes that will not puncture or leak from bags
such as paper towels, gloves benchtop mats,
and rounded plasticware including Petri dishes
and culture flasks;
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Pointed
plastic or glass items that could puncture
a bag such as pipettes and pipette tips; and
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Sharps
such as syringes with or without needles, razor
blades, and scalpel blades.
The
next few pages describe how these categories of
biomedical wastes should be collected in low and
moderate to high risk waste settings.
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