Waste Types (A to Z list)
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Biohazardous Waste - Animal carcasses, Biohazardous or ABSL-2 carcasses
Biohazardous Waste - Biohazardous Tissue Culture Waste
Biohazardous Waste - Human Body Fluids
Biohazardous Waste - Sharps (needles, Pasteur pipettes, broken glassware, etc.)
Biological Waste (BSL-1) - Tissue culture other than Human or NHP (ex: murine, avian, insect, plant)
Biotoxins - Biologically derived toxins requiring BSL-2 containment (LD50 of less than 100 µg/kg of body weight in vertebrates)
Cadaveric Materials - Human cadavers and recognizable human body parts
Glassware - NOT contaminated with hazardous materials (e.g., Broken Glassware, Waste Laboratory Glassware)
Hospital Waste - generated in patient care areas
"Hospital Like" Waste - Research Lab Waste (e.g., IV tubing, bags, and containers without blood, hazardous chemicals or sharps)
Lamps & Bulbs - Fluorescent lamps, high intensity discharge bulbs, etc.
Radioactive Waste - Animal carcasses / pathologic waste
Radioactive Waste - Bulk Liquid Waste (aqueous liquid waste with volume > 50ml)
Radioactive Waste - Dry Solid Materials (latex gloves, paper, glassware, capped Bio-Safe scintillation vials, etc.)
Radioactive Waste - Mixed Waste (aqueous liquid waste with volume > 50ml with EPA-listed Hazardous Chemicals)
Radioactive Waste - Sharps (needles, Pasteur pipettes, broken glassware, etc.)