Patent ID: 8348056

Claim:
A pharmaceutical waste disposal assembly for disposing of sharps, fluid pharmaceutical waste and solid pharmaceutical waste, the pharmaceutical waste disposal assembly comprising: a receiver assembly including (i) a sharps receiver that receives sharps, the sharps receiver including a sharps receiver body that defines a sharps region, (ii) a fluid waste receiver that receives fluid pharmaceutical waste, the fluid waste receiver including a fluid receiver body that defines a fluid waste region that is separate from the sharps region, and (iii) a solid waste receiver that receives solid pharmaceutical waste, the solid waste receiver including a solid receiver body that defines a solid waste region that Is separate from the sharps region and the fluid waste region; a sharps waste guide that guides the sharps into the sharps receiver, the sharps waste guide having a first guide type; a fluid waste guide that guides the fluid pharmaceutical waste into the fluid waste receiver, the fluid waste guide having a second guide type that is different than the first guide type; and a solid waste guide that guides the solid pharmaceutical waste into the solid waste receiver, the solid waste guide having a third guide type that is different than the first guide type and the second guide type.