Healthcare Waste

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Select the correct bag for your waste type. Tap a bag or bin for full guidance. If in doubt, use the higher category — orange over tiger stripe, yellow over orange.

Waste Bags

Orange Bag For infectious waste — items contaminated with blood or body fluids Infectious clinical waste

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Tiger Stripe Bag For non-infectious waste from routine patient contact Now in use — replaces orange for non-infectious

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Yellow Bag For all waste from a confirmed or suspected HCID patient HCID — highly infectious waste only

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Sharps Bins

Medicated Sharps Bin For medicated sharps — syringes and needles containing medicines Purple lid, yellow body

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Standard Sharps Bin For non-medicated sharps — needles, cannulae, lancets Yellow lid, yellow body

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