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USA Decon®
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
General
Please fill out a quote request and USA Decon will add your clinic, funeral home, hospital, industrial plant needles containers, and/or tattoo parlor to our regulated medical waste disposal pickup route in the Austin TX, Houston TX, Waco TX, and Fort Worth TX metropolitan areas and surrounding cities.
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USA Decon will recover and replace sharps containers spread throughout an industrial complex, red-bags in surgical trash containers, and/or a warehouse full of TCEQ regulated medical waste boxes and provide a manifest for your records.
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The best way to dispose of regulated medical waste is to ensure all pathology waste is disposed of in biohazard containers designated for red-bag biohazard and needles containment. The pathology waste should be securely sealed before transportation to a licensed medical waste disposal facility.
Solidifiers are added to biological fluids in order to protect against leakage and blood spills while stored in the lab, doctor's office, or funeral home in preparation for transport.
Once the regulated medical waste is securely sealed in sharps containers and/or red-bags biohazard boxes, then this medical waste is taken to the licensed disposal facility.
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Regulated medical waste accepted for disposal:
Blood, Blood Products, Body Fluids - Fluids must be contained in a sealed container with solidifier added to protect against leakage.
Sharps, Needles - syringes, scalpel blades, glass pipettes, slides etc must be in a sharps container.
Laboratory Waste - Cultures and stocks, test tubes.
Trace-contaminated Chemotherapy Waste - Empty drug vials, syringes and needles, spill kits, IV tubing and bags, contaminated gloves and gowns. Chemo sharps should first be put in a sharps container prior to placing them in the medical waste box.
Dialysis Tubing and Filters
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USA Decon provides regulated medical waste disposal services to facilities of all sizes such as industrial plants, doctors, hospitals, clinics, funeral homes, dentist red-bag biohazards, surgical centers, laboratories, and other companies that generate medical waste.
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USA Decon has provided regulated medical waste disposal services to governmental agencies and institutions, hospitals, medical examiner morgue cooler disinfection/dismantling/disposal in preparation for replacement, schools, apartments, homes, industrial plants, commercial building campuses, and mobile surgical suites.
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Hazardous waste not allowed in regulated medical waste boxes:
Chemicals (bulk) – Formaldehyde, acids, alcohol, waste oil, solvents, reagents, fixer developer.
Hazardous Waste – Drums or other containers with a hazard or toxic warning symbol, batteries, heavy metals etc.
Radioactive Waste – Any container with a radioactivity level that exceeds regulatory or permitted limits; lead containing materials.
Human Remains – Cadavers, aborted fetus.
Bulk Chemotherapy Waste.
Compresses Gas Cylinders, canisters, inhalers, and aerosol cans.
Glass Thermometers, or other devices or solutions containing mercury.
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We will provide you with a copy of a Regulated Medical Waste Disposal Manifest at the time of pick up which will show how many containers we recovered.
Red-bags for disposal in biohazard TCEQ regulated medical waste boxes.
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Biomedical waste is the regulatory classification of waste that consists of used needles (sharps), laboratory waste, biologically contaminated disposal material such as red-bags biohazard-box contained material.
This regulated medical waste includes equipment and instruments, empty drug vials, trace-contaminated Chemotherapy waste, and blood and/or body fluid biohazardous affected material.
Biomedical waste boxes.
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Each doctor’s practice generates bio-medical waste of differing amounts depending on the type of care provided on site. This type of care offered in a doctor’s office can range from a diagnostic exam extending to surgical procedures.
We provide regulated medical waste disposal for doctors, funeral homes, and care facilities by removing your biohazard red-bag waste boxes and sharps containers and provide you with a waste manifest for your records.
The regulated medical waste we collect includes:
Organic tissues from lab work and Other Potentially Infectious Materials (OPIM)
Expired medications, blood products and pathological waste
Solid waste including contaminated gloves, towels and pipettes
Liquid waste, including mediums, blood and bodily fluids
Sharps waste including but not limited to scalpels, syringes, slides, and needles
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Texas Administrative Code (30 TAC 330.3) refers to this waste type as “regulated medical waste.”
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Regulations
The Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR 173.134) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) uses “regulated medical waste” and “special waste from health care-related facilities” respectively to label biomedical waste.
Compliant Disposal
USA Decon's biomedical waste disposal services are tailored to meet your needs.
Not only can you engage cost-effective, compliant disposal of your healthcare regulated biomedical waste but you can also work with a committed partner in this area of the protection of public health.
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