Medical Waste Disposal Service

 

These precautions would be taken by others in the house to avoid infection in cases where transmission of serious disease is possible. Medical Waste Disposal Service Regular cleaning of areas where the patient goes can help avoid generation of extra waste. Ask your medical care team; they might recommend specific cleaning procedures. Around-the-house sanitizing can be done with bleach or ammonia solutions. Many commercial preparations build off these components and perhaps add detergents. Other industrial disinfectants employ more complex compounds. See page on disinfection. Medical waste in the house poses risk to anyone living in the house as well as visitors and home healthcare workers. If the waste is thrown in the regular trash, the workers who pick up the trash can be at risk, too. It is not uncommon for sanitation workers to get stuck by needles when on the job. When the sharps container is full, you may be able to put it in the regular trash. Put the sealed container into the center of a full, preferably dark trash bag and throw it out with the regular trash.