What category of garbage do medical bottles belong to
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Medical bottles are hazardous waste. Hazardous waste refers to household waste that causes direct or potential harm to human health or the natural environment, including waste batteries, waste light bulbs, waste medicines, waste paints and their containers. Medical bottles usually contain chemical components that may cause potential harm to human health or the environment, so they are classified as hazardous waste.
Classification and treatment methods of medical bottles
Infectious waste: including wastes of plastics, rubber, cotton, fibers and other materials contaminated by patients' blood, body fluids, and infectious excreta; pathogen culture media, specimens, strains, and toxin preservation fluids discarded by microbiological laboratories; various discarded medical specimens; household waste generated by isolated infectious disease patients and suspected infectious disease patients.
Pathological waste: including discarded human tissues, organs, etc. generated during surgery and other diagnosis and treatment processes; tissues and corpses of medical experimental animals; discarded human tissues and pathological wax blocks after pathological sections; placentas of pregnant women with infectious diseases, suspected infectious diseases, and sudden infectious diseases of unknown causes; stillborn fetuses with a gestational age of less than 16 weeks or a fetal weight of less than 500g.
Other classifications of medical waste
Medical waste is mainly divided into five categories:
Injury waste: including medical needles, suture needles, acupuncture needles, probes, puncture needles and various guide wires, steel nails, surgical saws, etc.; cover slips, slides, glass ampoules, broken glass test tubes, etc.
Chemical waste: toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive discarded chemicals, such as chemical imaging, discarded chemical reagents after medical experiments; discarded instruments containing heavy metals, such as mercury-containing sphygmomanometers, mercury-containing thermometers, etc.
Pharmaceutical waste: expired, obsolete, deteriorated or contaminated discarded drugs, including general drugs, cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs, vaccines, blood products, etc.
