Infectious waste
Waste contaminated with blood and other bodily fluids (from discarded diagnostic samples), cultures and stocks of infectious agents from laboratory work (waste from autopsies and infected animals from laboratories), or waste from patients in isolation wards and equipment (swabs, bandages and disposable medical devices).
Pathological waste
Human tissues, organs or fluids, body parts and contaminated animal carcasses.
Sharps
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Syringes, needles, disposable scalpels and blades.
Chemicals
Solvents used for laboratory preparations, disinfectants, and heavy metals contained in medical devices (e.g. mercury in broken thermometers) and batteries.
Pharmaceuticals
Expired, unused and contaminated drugs and vaccines.
Genotoxic waste
Highly hazardous, mutagenic, teratogenic 1 or carcinogenic such as cytotoxic drugs used in cancer treatment and their metabolites.
Radioactive waste
Such as products contaminated by radionuclides including radioactive diagnostic material or radio therapeutic materials.
Non-hazardous or general waste
Waste that does not pose any particular biological, chemical, radioactive or physical hazard.
