"Medical Waste Classification Catalog" will be divided into five categories of medical waste:
1, infectious waste refers to carry pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of infectious disease transmission of medical waste, including the patient's blood, bodily fluids, fecal contamination of the goods, infectious diseases, patients generated by the garbage, etc.;
2, pathologic waste refers to the diagnostic and treatment process generated by the human waste and medical test animal carcasses, including discarded human tissues generated during surgery, discarded human tissues after pathological section, pathological wax blocks, etc.;
3. Injurious wastes refer to discarded medical sharps capable of stabbing or cutting the human body, including medical needles, scalpels, scalpels, glass test tubes, etc.
4. Pharmaceutical wastes refer to discarded medicines that have been outdated, obsolete, deteriorated, or polluted, including discarded general medicines, including discarded general medicines. Pharmaceutical waste refers to obsolete, obsolete, deteriorated or contaminated waste medicines, including discarded general medicines, discarded cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs, etc.;
5. Chemical waste refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals, such as discarded chemical reagents, chemical disinfectants, mercury sphygmomanometers, mercury thermometers, etc. The laboratory discarded general chemical reagents and mercury thermometers. General chemical reagents discarded in the laboratory and discarded disinfectants, etc. are discharged into the sewers.
Classified and bagged collection, special recycling and disposal methods: incineration is used for those that can be incinerated, and highly hazardous wastes such as culture media, specimens and strains of pathogens in medical wastes should be subjected to high-pressure steam sterilization or chemical disinfection, and then collected and treated as infectious wastes. Domestic wastes (except those discarded by infectious patients) can be treated as ordinary domestic wastes.
People's Republic of China*** and the State Health and Planning Commission - Classification Catalog of Medical Waste