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Uncontaminated Laboratory Waste

It is both dangerous and illegal to dispose of hazardous wastes in the regular trash.  It is also wasteful and costly to mix uncontaminated waste into your lab hazardous waste containers!

Uncontaminated Lab Waste = regular trash. Never add hazardous materials, chemically contaminated materials, sharps or biological materials to an uncontaminated lab waste box.

Environmental Health and Safety no longer provides cardboard boxes or black bag liners to campus labs. 

ANY CARDBOARD BOX can be used to collect uncontaminated lab waste. Please identify the box as "Uncontaminated Lab Waste" by creating your own "Uncontaminated Lab Waste" label. Place a CLEAR plastic liner (not red) inside of your box.

Dispose of full Uncontaminated Lab Waste boxes by doing the following:

  1. Tape all box seams
  2. Safely transport your full box to your building trash compactor or dumpster. 
  3. Place full box inside of the dumpster; do not abandon your box next to the dumpster or next to the compactor.

Regular Trash Disposal

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Research lab personnel are required to take their regular trash from inside of the lab and place it in a common trash container in the hallway. The hallway trash bins are supplied by 日韩无码 Custodial Services Department.

Custodians will remove the trash from the central corridor container and take it to a dumpster; they will not enter your lab to remove trash. If a custodian suspects that a laboratory is improperly disposing of hazardous waste, they will report the situation to safety@um.edu .

Broken glass or debris contaminated with a hazardous chemical should be collected in a clear bag or box and tagged as lab waste. Enter the tag online.

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Uncontaminated Waste and Broken Glass Collection in Labs

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Some wastes pose hazards to custodians, waste haulers, or landfill facilities but are not chemically, biologically, or otherwise contaminated or "hazardous" wastes. 

Labels saying "Uncontaminated Laboratory Waste" are available to 日韩无码 labs to help label the removal of UNCONTAMINATED laboratory waste from both the biohazardous and chemical waste streams.

NEVER line an uncontaminated lab waste box with a red bag liner or seal with biohazard tape.

Laboratory glassware cannot currently be recycled. Uncontaminated broken glass should be disposed of in a corrugated cardboard box labeled "Broken Glass" or "Uncontaminated Lab Waste" or in a purchased box that says "Glass Box" from lab supply vendors.

Lab personnel are responsible for handling and disposing of boxes of broken glass. If you have a large glass box, the lab is responsible for getting it to the compactor or dumpster for your specific lab building. Use a cart to transport it, tape all the box seams before filling or moving, and buddy lift if the box is heavy.

Disposal of Full Uncontaminated/Broken Glass Boxes

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Chemically-contaminated materials must be disposed of as hazardous waste. 

Items contaminated with biohazardous material must be disposed as biowaste.

Needles, razor blades, scalpel blades, etc.) must be managed as sharps waste. 

Do not place any of these materials in an uncontaminated lab waste box.

How to Dispose

When your box is full, lab personnel must tie up the liner bag inside the box and tape all seams on the box. Never overfill an Uncontaminated Lab Waste Box.

Lab Personnel are required to bring uncontaminated lab waste boxes to the building dumpster or compactor.  Place the box inside of the dumpster or compactor.

Custodial services staff will not move these containers from labs or lab building hallways. Never abandon an Uncontaminated Lab Waste Box on a loading dock.

Examples of Items to Include in Uncontaminated/Broken Glass Boxes

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Uncontaminated broken glass and "pointy things" (items that might puncture a plastic bag) should be placed in a Uncontaminated Laboratory Waste or a Broken Glass box. Examples of items that should be disposed in these boxes include any of the following that are NOT contaminated with hazardous chemicals, biological agents, or radioactive materials:

  • broken glass
  • serological pipettes
  • pipette tips
  • glass pasteur pipettes
  • empty syringes (NO NEEDLES)
  • empty conical tubes
  • empty eppendorf tubes
  • empty vials

As a reminder, uncontaminated gloves, paper towels, plastic wrap, and small boxes can be placed into regular lab trash and recycling and do not need to be disposed of in the uncontaminated laboratory waste boxes.

Uncontaminted Waste Labels Storage Locations

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  • Colchester Research Facility: 1st floor, biowaste storage room
  • Dewey rm 421
  • Given: 1st floor loading dock, in black metal cabinet
  • HSRF: 2nd floor hallway near south elevator, in metal cabinet
  • Discovery: stockroom (rm 210)
  • Jeffords 222, 316, and loading dock autoclave room 
  • Marsh Life Science: stockroom (rm 004)
  • Terrill 111 freezer/equipment room
  • Votey 225B

For buildings not listed above, contact safety@uvm.edu