Wiggins is the Stone County seat, inland from the coast in the pine belt. It is a small county town, and the healthcare list is short: family practice, dentistry, a county clinic and veterinary work.
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No long-term contracts
You stay because the pickups happen, not because a contract says so.
No hidden fees
Mail-back has no minimum purchase and no fuel surcharge either.
Local pickup
South Alabama, South Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle.
Mail-back anywhere
Prepaid return boxes to all 50 states, for offices that make very little.
In Wiggins
What we collect here, and from whom
In a county this size, one hauler decision covers almost everything, which makes it worth making properly. Mississippi requires no transporter permit, so there is no license to check; what you can check is whether a manifest comes back.
MDEQ recommends exactly that: require certified manifest forms documenting proper management and disposal, and keep a copy on file. Ours arrive with every pickup, and mail-back returns an electronic certificate instead.
There is no Mississippi office. BioMed works from one office, in Mobile, AL, and South Mississippi sits inside the local pickup area run from it. Wiggins is in Stone County, inside the local pickup area. See the rest of South Mississippi, or contact us and the Mobile office will reply.
Rural family practices One container of injection and draw sharps, filling over months.
County and public health clinics Immunization and screening sharps.
Veterinary clinics Mixed and large animal vaccination needles in quantity.
Dental offices A country practice sharps and amalgam, both in containers sized for slow filling.
Mississippi rules
What Mississippi asks of you
Mississippi is the loosest of the three states we work in, and that cuts both ways: less to file, and more resting on who you hire.
Two agencies, split at the door
The Mississippi State Department of Health regulates storage and handling inside your building. MDEQ regulates off-site management, transport and disposal.
No transporter permit
MDEQ does not currently require special licensing or permits for medical waste transporters. Checking who you hire matters more here, not less.
No manifest required. Ask anyway
MDEQ recommends that generators require certified manifest forms and keep a copy on file. BioMed supplies one with every pickup, with proof of legal destruction.
Not to a landfill untreated
Solid waste permits generally prohibit municipal disposal facilities from accepting infectious medical waste that has not been rendered non-infectious.
It comes down to how much you make. Steady volume suits a truck on a schedule. An office that fills a few containers a month can skip the truck and mail them back.
Scheduled pickup
For clinics, practices and facilities with steady volume
Containers and bags supplied for each waste stream
Routine or flexible pickups, adjusted when your volume changes
Collected by trained, experienced personnel
Waste manifest and proof of legal destruction every time
Local across South Alabama, South Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle, from our Mobile, AL office
There is no transporter permit to ask for, because MDEQ does not require one. Ask instead whether you get a certified manifest and proof of destruction, which MDEQ recommends you require.
Do you collect in Wiggins?
Yes. Wiggins is in Stone County, inside the local pickup area.
What suits a rural practice best?
Usually a prepaid mail-back system, which carries no fuel surcharge and no monthly fee.
Do you take veterinary sharps?
Yes, though not animal carcass or pathological waste.