What are the five categories of medical waste classification and how to classify medical waste treatment?

1. Infectious waste: infectious waste refers to medical waste that carries pathogenic microorganisms and has the risk of causing the spread of infectious diseases, including articles contaminated by patients' blood, body fluids and excreta, garbage generated by patients with infectious diseases and other medical waste plastic products;

2. Pathological waste: Pathological waste refers to human excreta and corpses of medical experimental animals produced in the process of diagnosis and treatment, including discarded human tissues produced during surgery, discarded human tissues after pathological sections, pathological wax blocks, etc.

3. Hazardous waste: Hazardous waste refers to abandoned medical sharp instruments that can stab or cut human body, including medical needles, scalpels, scalpels, glass test tubes, etc.

4. Medical waste: Medical waste refers to eliminated, discarded, deteriorated or contaminated drugs, including discarded ordinary drugs, discarded cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs;

5. Chemical waste: Chemical waste refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals, such as waste chemical reagents, chemical disinfectants, mercury sphygmomanometer, mercury thermometer, etc.