1. Damaged waste
Definition: Abandoned medical sharps that can stab or cut human body.
Discarded metal sharps, such as medical needles, suture needles, acupuncture needles, probes, puncture needles and various guide wires, steel nails, surgical saws, etc. ; Waste glass sharp objects, such as cover glass, glass slides, glass ampoules and broken glass test tubes; Waste sharp objects made of other materials, such as disposable tweezers, disposable probes, disposable plastic straws, etc.
2. Chemical waste
Definition: toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals.
Waste chemical reagents used in chemical imaging and medical experiments; Waste chemical disinfectants such as peracetic acid and glutaraldehyde; Discarded appliances and articles containing heavy metals, such as sphygmomanometers containing mercury, thermometers containing mercury, articles containing mercury after use in stomatology, etc.
3. Pharmaceutical waste
Definition: expired, eliminated, deteriorated or contaminated waste drugs.
Drugs that are generally discarded in batches, such as antibiotics and over-the-counter drugs; Abandoned cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs, including carcinogenic drugs, suspected carcinogenic drugs and immunosuppressants; Abandoned vaccines, blood products, etc.
4. Infectious waste
Definition: Medical waste that carries pathogenic microorganisms and is in danger of causing the spread of infectious diseases.
Wastes of plastics, rubber, cotton, fibers and other materials contaminated by patients' blood, body fluids and infectious excreta; Pathogen culture media, specimens, strains and virus preservation solution abandoned in microbiology laboratory; All kinds of discarded medical specimens; Isolate the domestic garbage generated by patients with infectious diseases and patients suspected of infectious diseases.
5. Pathological waste
Definition: Human excrement and animal carcasses produced by medical laboratories in the process of diagnosis and treatment.
Abandoned human tissues, organs, etc. Produced in the course of surgery and other medical treatment; Tissue and corpse of medical laboratory animals; Human tissues and pathological wax blocks discarded after pathological sectioning; Placenta of pregnant women suffering from infectious diseases, suspected infectious diseases and sudden infectious diseases of unknown reasons; Stillborn fetus with gestational age less than 16 weeks, or fetal weight less than 500g.