Healthcare Waste (HCW) Summary Chart

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Healthcare waste stream in a RBHS clinic STAFF: All Waste Worker Waste Worker PROCESS: Segregation Collection↓ Disposal↓ ▪ General→ Black Bin Sanitary Pit - unlined CATEGORIES: Hazardous→ ( Potential ly Infectious) Yellow Bin Organic Pit, or Incinerator (if hot, hot, hot) ▪Highly Hazardous→ (Infectious +/or sharp) Red Bin and Sharps Box (plastic) Or, a Safety Box (cardboard) Incinerator → Ash Pit ▪ Glass→ Glass Crusher Ash Pit

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Healthcare waste stream in a RBHS clinic

STAFF: All Waste Worker Waste Worker

PROCESS: Segregation↓ Collection↓ Disposal↓

▪ General→ Black Bin Sanitary Pit - unlined

CATEGORIES:▪ Hazardous→( Potentially Infectious)

Yellow Bin Organic Pit, or Incinerator (if hot, hot, hot)

▪Highly Hazardous→(Infectious +/or sharp)

Red Bin andSharps Box (plastic)Or, a Safety Box (cardboard)

Incinerator → Ash Pit

▪ Glass→ Glass Crusher Ash Pit