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Waste Disposal

The Streams for Clinical Waste Disposal

In order for all this to work in the reality of busy clinical practice, the most common streams you will face are these:

 Black Bag,  Yellow Lid Sharps Bin,  Orange Bag,  Yellow Bag,  Yellow 'Tiger' Bag, Recycling.

In a typical 'ward' this may be reduced further:

 Black Bag,  Yellow Lid Sharps Bin,  Orange Bag.

If you are working with waste outside that described in this package please seek expert help (this includes, Cytotoxic (cell killing) chemicals and drugs as well as radioactive materials.