Arizona Administrative Code
Title 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 13 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Article 14 - BIOHAZARDOUS MEDICAL WASTE AND DISCARDED DRUGS
Section R18-13-1420 - Additional Handling Requirements for Certain Wastes
Universal Citation: AZ Admin Code R 18-13-1420
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
A. A person who treats the following biohazardous medical waste categories shall meet the following additional requirements:
1. Cultures and stocks shall be
incinerated, autoclaved, or treated by an alternative medical waste treatment
method that meets the treatment standards set forth in
R18-13-1415(A).
If cultures and stocks are shipped off site for treatment or disposal, they
shall be packaged inside a watertight primary container with absorbent packing
materials. The primary container shall be placed inside a watertight secondary
inner container that is then placed inside an outer container with sufficient
cushioning material to prevent shifting between the secondary inner container
and the outer container. If federal or state law prescribes specific
requirements for packaging and transporting this waste, the treater shall
comply with that law.
2. Trace
chemotherapy waste shall be incinerated or disposed of in either an approved
solid waste or hazardous waste disposal facility.
3. Experimental or research animal waste
shall be handled as follows:
a. Autoclave
bedding on site or package as described in
R18-13-1407
for off-site treatment or landfilling.
b. Incinerate animal carcasses on site, or if
taken off site for treatment, comply with one of the following requirements:
i. Package the waste in a leakproof, covered
container, label the contents and send to an incinerator or a
Department-approved landfill, or
ii. If treated by a method other than
incineration, pre-process by grinding, then treat by a method that achieves the
standards of
R18-13-1415(A).
B. If a treater uses grinding in combination with another treatment method described in this Article, the treater shall conduct it in a closed system to prevent humans from being exposed to the release of the waste into the environment. If grinding is used for medical sharps, the grinding shall render the medical sharps incapable of creating a stick hazard.
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