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What
Are Sharps?
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Hypodermic needles
- Scalpels
- Razor
blades
- X-acto®
blades
- Broken
glass items such as Pasteur and other pipettes and
microscope slides. (These, if uncontaminated, go into
a separate collection.)
For disposal purposes, there are four kinds of sharps:
- non-contaminated
-
biohazardous
- chemically
contaminated
- radioactive
Keeping used sharps segregated by their type of contamination
is required by law and will make disposal less expensive
and less complicated.
Contact EH&S
if you are not sure if a material is a sharp.
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