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Infectious (Medical) Waste |
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Hospitals
˜ Doctors/Dentists
Offices ˜ Skilled & Unskilled Nursing Care |
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Group Practices, Specialized Out-Patient
Services |
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Patient Care Clinics ˜ Alternative-Care
Providers |
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Zoos, Veterinarians & Veterinary Hospitals |
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Special - Non-Hazardous (Industrial &
Manufacturing) Waste |
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Manufacturers & other Industrial Waste
Generators (of non-haz waste) |
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturers ˜ Chemical
Manufacturers |
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Universities & Other Teaching Institutions |
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Consumer (household) Product Manufacturers |
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Electrical Component Manufacturers of Batteries,
Lamps, Ballast's, etc |
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Hazardous (Industrial & Manufacturing) Waste |
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Manufacturers & other Industrial Waste
Generators (of hazardous waste) |
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturers ˜ Chemical
Manufacturers |
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Incinerator Ash |
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Utilities (electric, gas & water) |
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Military Waste |
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Aging Military Munitions and Chemical Warfare
Agents ( Not in Indy) |
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Infectious Waste - means waste that
epidemiologic evidence indicates is capable of transmitting a dangerous
communicable disease. Infectious
waste includes the following: |
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Pathological wastes: that includes tissue,
organs, body parts, and blood or body fluids in liquid or semi-liquid form
that are removed during surgery, biopsy, or autopsy. |
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Biological cultures and associated biologicals. |
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Contaminated sharps. |
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Infectious agent stock and associated
biologicals. |
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Blood and blood products in liquid or
semi-liquid form. |
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Laboratory animal carcasses, body parts, and
bedding. |
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Medical (Red Bag) Waste - falls under this
category in Indiana. |
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Special Waste - means any solid waste from a
nonresidential source that includes any of the following: |
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A sludge |
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An industrial process waste |
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A pollution control waste |
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Incinerator residues (except hazardous waste) |
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Regulated asbestos |
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Contaminated soil, residue, debris, and articles
from the cleanup of a spill or release of materials |
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Industrial Process Waste - means solid waste
generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that is not hazardous waste. Such waste may include, but is not
limited to, waste resulting from any of the following manufacturing
processes: |
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Electric power, fertilizer or agriculture
chemicals, food & related products or byproducts, inorganic chemicals,
iron & steel, leather, nonferrous metals, organic chemicals, plastic
& resins, pulp & paper, rubber & miscellaneous plastics, stone,
glass, clay, textiles, transportation equipment, oil & gas, painting,
printing, contaminated off-specification or out-dated wholesale products,
waste recycling & processing activities, processing of ores &
minerals. |
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Examples include, but are not limited to: oil,
lubricants, resins, chemical
catalysts, distillation bottoms, ink, paint sludges, grinding sludges,
incinerator ash, core sand, metallic dust sweepings, material which may
create asbestos dust. |
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Pharmaceutical Waste - falls under this category
in Indiana. |
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Hazardous Waste - means a solid waste or
combination of solid wastes that, because of its quantity, concentration,
or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may: |
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cause or significantly contribute to an increase
in mortality or increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating
reversible illness; or. |
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pose a substantial present or potential hazard
to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed. |
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Notes