LLET’SET’S T TALK ALK TTRASHRASH!!Know Where to Throw!

Sharps Garbage Chemo BiohazardNeedles

All Syringes

Scalpel Blades & Lancets

Glass pipettes, slides & tubes

Broken contaminated

glass

Staples & wires (including guidewires)

Disposable suture sets and biopsy forceps

Discontinued IV sites

Amniocentesis hooks

Electrocautery tips

General paper trash

Empty IV bags, bottles & tubing w/o needles or

visible blood, urine, feces or

vomitus

Soiled material w/o visible

blood such as: empty urine cups, stool containers,

coley bags/tubing, diapers and

chux

Disposable paper drapes

Band-aids

Glucometer strips

Disposable basins, bedpans and urinals

Ventilator tubing

Sanitary napkins and tampons

Dressing materials (not grossly soiled)

PPE (worn but not grossly soiled)

Trace contaminated

items generated in the

preparation & administration

of antineoplastic/ cytoxic drugs

such as:

Gowns

Gloves

Masks

Barriers

IV Tubing

Empty bags/bottles

Empty drug vials

Spill cleanup materials or

kits

Saturated or grossly soiled disposables such as:

Dressing materials, OB pads, surgical

pads, PPE

Containers, catheters or tubing with fluid, blood, blood tinged fluid or blood products such as: suction canisters,

foleys, BTT’s ventilator tubing, IV tubing, IV

bags, blood/blood product sets

Dialysers & tubing

Pleurovacs

Placentas & Surigcal Specimens

Blood spill clean up material