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Nonhazardous or general waste Packaging, food scraps, paper, flowers, empty saline bottles, nonbloody diapers, nonbloody intravenous tubing and bags Packaging; uncontaminated gowns, gloves, masks, hats, and shoe covers Packaging, paper, plastic containers Packaging, paper, empty containers

pharmaceutical, and cytotoxic waste Broken thermometers and blood-pressure gauges, spilt medicines, spent disinfectants Spent disinfectants Waste anesthetic gases Fixatives; formalin; xylene, toluene, methanol, methylene chloride, and other solvents; broken lab thermometers

Chemical,

Infectious and pathological waste Dressings, bandages, gauze, and cotton contaminated with blood or body fluids; gloves and masks contaminated with blood or body fluids Blood and other body fluids; suction canisters; gowns, gloves, masks, gauze and other waste contaminated with blood and body fluids;
Major sources of medical waster in hospitals and medical centers

Hypodermic needles, intravenous set needles, broken vials, and ampoules Needles, intravenous sets, scalpels, blades, Needles, broken glass, Petri dishes, slides and cover slips, broken pipettes

Sharps saws

Table 8.1 Location Medical ward Operating theater Laboratory Pharmacy store