Clinical and biological eg. See the schedule of collection dates for these types of wastes. Additional hazardous waste collections may occasionally be arranged eg., for large or urgent jobs. Costs for these special collections will be borne by the Unit requesting the service. This type of waste includes surgical dressings, cultures, biological tissues, needles and other sharps.
Clinical wastes can be of human or animal origin.
In general, clinical and biological waste must be decontaminated or sterilised before leaving the Department. Sharps must be segregated from other types of clinical and biological waste by collection in an approved sharps container. In this case, items should NOT be marked as biohazardous and should be sealed in a strong, opaque bag. Wastes contaminated with higher risk organisms, including any clinical or biological waste of human origin, must be thoroughly decontaminated or sterilised and must also be disposed of as hazardous waste using the University hazardous waste disposal service, or equivalent. Human and animal tissues, blood or body parts must never be placed in the ordinary garbage stream, even if decontaminated.