Delray Beach Bio-hazardous wastes is best defined as refuse that contains infectious or possibly infectious materials and substances. Bio-hazardous waste disposal has to be done according to the state and federal laws pertaining to medical waste management Delray Beach and labeled for easier identification.
Of course, there is little point in knowing how bio-hazardous waste disposal is executed if we first don’t know what is consider to be biohazardous waste.
There are six categories of bio-hazardous wastes. These are:
1. Pathological wastes. These wastes include amputated human body parts, internal organs and tissue. Body parts considered to be bio-hazardous include anatomical parts form surgery or other procedure, biopsy materials and other. Skin, however, is not considered to be pathological or bio-hazardous waste at all.
2. Human body fluids. All human body fluids, whether they are in a liquid or semi-liquid state are considered to be bio-hazardous waste. This includes urine, feces, semen, saliva, sweat and other body fluids that are not easy or even impossible to identify.
3. Human blood and blood products are another regular candidate for bio-hazardous west disposal. Anything that has been contaminated by blood or blood products is also bio-hazardous waste and needs to be removed as such.
4. Microbiological wastes include all wastes coming from medical laboratories that are contaminated with concentrated forms of infectious agents, ie microorganisms such as viruses and bacteria. Microbiological wastes also include culture dishes, stock, specimen cultures and so forth.
5. Sharps waste are needles, scalpels, razor blades, syringes (with needles attached) scissors and other medical instruments used to lacerate or pierce the human skin. Once these instruments are used they need to be discarded in a sharps box immediately, as they can injure and infect a person if he or she gets stabbed or cut on them accidentally.
6. Animal wastes are, logically, animal carcasses, animal body parts, organs, tissue, beddings and other wastes (such as blood and body fluids) and are usually the result of veterinary clinic or hospital activities or animal research. One thing that should be kept in mind that not all animal waste is considered to be bio-hazardous, but only those that contain pathogens that are dangerous to humans as well.
Categorizing Delray Beach medical waste has to be done prior to any bio-hazardous waste disposal. Once medical wastes have been separated from regular wastes, they need to go in proper bags or containers. Most bio-hazardous waste can be put in a red plastic bag. These bags are similar to the ones we use for household trash, except that their color signifies to the waste handler the content inside them. These red bags are, however, not suited for sharps waste, which, as I have already mentioned, have to be disposed in a durable plastic container and sealed once full. Finally, liquids, like blood, body fluids and chemicals, need to be poured in a bio-hazard container, albeit if the amount is small, some states allow it to be discarded in the sewer.
