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How Can I Be a Biosafety Ambassador?


No eating or drinking in the lab!

Current Biosafety Initiatives

Is your waste being handled correctly?

Is your Contaminated Materials Container (CMC) being secured with packing tape before set out for housekeeping to pick up?

HOW MUCH DOES MY WASTE COST?

The University of Virginia is charged ~$26 to dispose each CMC!


A properly taped CMC!


NEVER close a CMC like this!

ITEMS THAT DO NOT BELONG IN THE CMC

  • Loose sharp items that can puncture skin (i.e. needles, scalpels, glass ampules, glass Pasteur pipettes, etc.)
  • Large amounts of loose liquid materials
  • Anything that is not contaminated with biological materials!
    • For example: Empty reagent bottles, pipette tip boxes, empty glove boxes
  • Uncontaminated broken glass
    • Order Waste Laboratory Glassware labels from here.


Waste Laboratory Glassware label

Remember

Only take as many CMCs that your lab needs at the time. Taking more than the lab needs, prevents other labs in the building from accessing this resource.

Only biological materials or items contaminated with biological materials are to be disposed of in a CMC!

Never put sharps into the CMC! Housekeepers or anyone moving these boxes can get stuck!!

Sharps MUST be put into a container like the one below!


Sharps container, red, 2-gallon

 
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