WASTE DISPOSAL
Regular Waste- Biohazardous
Clear Bag
Waste- Red Bag
Chemo Waste
Yellow Boxes
 Empty IV bags and  Blood and all other
tubing
potentially
infectious material
 Empty medication
vials or containers  Blood tubing/bags/
hemovacs/
 Empty syringes
pleurovacs
without needles

Soaked
or dripping
 Trash/wrappers
bloody dressings
 Dressings
 Diapers
 Food
 Gloves
 Stryofoam
 Empty foley bags
 Suction liners with
& other drainage
bloody fluid or
bags
other potentially
 Sanitary napkins
infectious material
 All disposable
items soaked or
dripping with blood
or other potentially
infectious material
 Trace Chemo:
Includes all supplies
used to make and
administer chemo
medication
Examples: tubing,
empty bags, bottles,
vials, syringes, gloves,
pads, masks, gowns,
wipes etc.
Return to pharmacy
all unused bulk
(pourable) Chemo in
original pharmacy bag
for proper disposal.
Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals
Blue Box
R.C.R.A. *
 Partially used or
residual prescription
or over the counter
medications: IV
liquid, pills, gel,
cream or patch.
 Residual or wasted
narcotics and or
controlled drugs.
MUST BE
RENDERED
UNUSABLE- squirt
into container or cut
patches.
Return to pharmacy
Unopened/unused or
expired medications.
Sharps
Red Box
 RCRA
pharmaceuticals are
considered
hazardous waste.
 Includes unused or
residual drugs:
 Inhalers (if empty
place in regular
trash)
 Acetone
 Eipinephrine
drips
 Barium
 Chemotherapy
 Non Chemo vialsempty
 Non-chemo
syringes with
needles-empty
 Broken medication
vials
Return to pharmacy
all unused or residual
med in original bag for
proper disposal.
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*Federal Resource
Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA)
Sewer or Sink
Saline
Dextrose
Electrolytes
Lactated Ringers
TPN/Lipids