Waste Disposal
Last Review Date: April 14, 2021
I. Purpose
Waste products, including autoclaved waste, must be removed from the facility and disposed of to ensure a sanitary workplace and to prevent the contamination of work areas with waste materials.
II. Responsibility
LAR staff must remove waste from the animal facility in an efficient and safe manner. Staff must avoid contaminating other areas of the facility while disposing of waste materials.
III. Procedure
A. Biohazardous waste is placed in red biohazard bags and autoclaved. After
autoclaving, the biohazard symbol on the bag is defaced and the bag is placed
intoregular trash.
B. All non-hazardous waste is placed into black trash can bags that are a minimum of 3
mm thick (under IACUC approved guidelines)
autoclaving, the biohazard symbol on the bag is defaced and the bag is placed
into
B. All non-hazardous waste is placed into black trash can bags that are a minimum of 3
mm thick (under IACUC approved guidelines)
C. Once the trash is in a garbage bag, the bag is tightly closed to prevent any waste from
falling out.
D. All bagged waste from the NUAIRE Animal Bedding Disposal
the
cage
E. The trash bags are taken to the dumpster outside the Health Science Building to be
delivered to the local landfill.
F. Hazardous chemical or biological waste will be stored in plastic bags in a designated
freezer (HS 015A and SB 028) and will be picked up for medical waste disposal as
needed by Environmental Health. This includes carcasses of transgenic animals, as well
as carcasses of animals used in studies involving hazardous chemicals or hazardous
biologicals.