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Table 8.2 Category of waster and its description
Waste category Descriptions and examples
Hazardous health-care waste
Sharps waste Used or unused sharps (e.g., hypodermic, intravenous or
other needles; auto-disable syringes; syringes with attached
needles; infusion sets; scalpels; pipettes; knives; blades;
broken glass)
Infectious waste Waste suspected to contain pathogens and that poses a risk
of disease transmission (e.g., waste contaminated with
blood and other body fluids; laboratory cultures and
microbiological stocks; waste including excreta and other
materials that have been in contact with patients infected
with highly infectious diseases in isolation wards)
Pathological Human tissues, organs or fluids; body parts; fetuses; unused
waste blood products
Pharmaceutical Pharmaceuticals that are expired or no longer needed; items
waste, contaminated by or containing pharmaceuticals. Cytotoxic
cytotoxic waste containing substances with genotoxic properties
waste (e.g., waste containing cytostatic drugs—often used in
cancer therapy; genotoxic chemicals)
Chemical waste Waste containing chemical substances (e.g., laboratory
reagents; film developer; disinfectants that are expired or no
longer needed; solvents; waste with high content of heavy
metals, e.g., batteries; broken thermometers and blood-
pressure gauges)
Radioactive Waste containing radioactive substances (e.g., unused liquids
waste from radiotherapy or laboratory research; contaminated
glassware, packages, or absorbent paper; urine and excreta
from patients treated or tested with unsealed radionuclides;
sealed sources)
Nonhazardous or Waste that does not pose any particular biological, chemical,
general health- radioactive, or physical hazard
care waste

Sharps: syringes, needles, disposable scalpels and blades, etc.;
Chemicals: for example, solvents used for laboratory preparations, dis-
infectants, and heavy metals contained in medical devices (e.g., mercury
in broken thermometers) and batteries;
Pharmaceuticals: expired, unused, and contaminated drugs and
vaccines;
Genotoxicwaste: highly hazardous, mutagenic, teratogenic, or car-
cinogenic, such as cytotoxic drugs used in cancer treatment and their
metabolites;