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Biomedical Waste |
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Biomedical wastes have the potential to spread infection and are regulated differently than hazardous waste. Hazardous wastes should not be put in the biomedical waste container.
Flowable Blood and Other Body Fluids in flowable form can be discharged to the sanitary sewer.
Bloody Wastes like gloves and paper that have come in contact with blood or body fluids but aren't saturated are not considered biomedical waste. Bag these in plastic, securely close the bag and put them in the garbage.
Blood or Body Fluid-saturated Wastes. Items saturated with blood or body fluids must be handled by a biomedical waste disposal company. Blood-saturated items are those in which the blood is not dried or fully absorbed, but has the potential to drip.
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Biomedical waste disposal companies
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Safety-Kleen
Lynnwood, WA
425-775-7030
Auburn, WA
800-669-5948
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Cleaning companies
The following companies will clean up organic material (human and animal origin), bodily fluids and excreta. |
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Mail away program(s)
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Sharps. Put hypodermic needles, syringes with needles attached, lancets, dental scalers, and scalpel blades in a sharps container and dispose of them through a biomedical waste disposal company (See list above.)
Treated biomedical waste (e.g. autoclaved waste) may be be put in the garbage with approval from Public Health -- Seattle & King County's Waste Characterization Program at (206) 263-8528 or email them at wc@kingcounty.gov.
For general information on biomedical waste call the medical waste coordinator at Public Health -- Seattle & King County at (206) 296-4831.
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