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Labs, imaging and pharmacy

Medical waste disposal for clinical and research labs

A laboratory generates waste that is infectious by design rather than by accident. Cultures, stocks and specimens are the point of the work, which makes segregation and packaging a scientific discipline as much as a compliance one.

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Tell us about your facility and the Mobile office will call you back.

Or call (251) 300-6143.

  • 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.

Technician weighing a sealed biohazard container collected from a laboratory

What a lab generates

Infectious by design

The stream is dense and varied: culture plates and stocks, specimen tubes, pipette tips, slides, broken glass and contaminated plasticware, plus the sharps from every bench that draws or transfers.

Some of it is autoclaved on site before it leaves. Some of it is not. We supply containers for both routes and collect on an interval set by bench activity rather than by building size. Chemical and radioactive lab streams are outside this service and need a vendor set up for them.

  • Cultures and stocks Plates, broths and stocks of infectious agents from the bench.
  • Specimen waste Blood tubes, containers and contaminated transport packaging.
  • Lab sharps Needles, scalpel blades, slides, pipettes and broken glass.
  • Not collected here Chemical and radioactive laboratory waste, which needs a vendor set up for those streams.

What applies to you

The rules behind the containers

Laboratory waste is treated more strictly than general clinical waste in most state rules, and for good reason.

  • OSHA on the bench

    29 CFR 1910.1030 covers containers, labeling, PPE and the exposure control plan for laboratory staff.

  • Glass is a sharp

    Broken glass, slides and pipettes go into a puncture-resistant container, not a bench-top bin.

  • Packaged for transport

    Regulated waste leaving the lab travels in closed, marked packaging under DOT rules, 49 CFR.

  • State rules on cultures

    Alabama's ADEM Division 335-17 and Florida's Chapter 64E-16 both address cultures and stocks specifically. Check the current text with the agency.

A summary for orientation, not legal advice. Check the current rule with the agency, or call the office in Mobile, AL.

Two ways to dispose

Pickup or mail-back

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
Quote a pickup schedule

Mail-back

For small quantity generators, 0 to 50 lbs a month

  • Systems from 1 quart to 28 gallons
  • Prepaid return box and a pre-filled manifest
  • Email tracking from pickup to destruction
  • Electronic certificate of disposal
  • No contracts, no minimums, no fuel surcharges
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Your account

Set up bench by bench

The right container in the right place beats a large container in the corridor, every time.

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  • Containers per bench

    Sharps and biohazard containers where the work happens, sized to the throughput there.

  • Autoclaved or not

    Containers and routing for both, depending on what you treat on site.

  • Interval from activity

    Routine collection matched to bench activity, changed when a study or a season changes it.

  • Full documentation

    A manifest per pickup and proof of legal waste destruction.

Questions

Clinical & Research Labs, answered

Something we did not cover? The office that serves you can answer it.

Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143

Do you collect cultures and stocks?

Yes, as regulated medical waste in the containers we supply. State rules address cultures specifically, so we set the packaging up against the rule in your state.

Do you take chemical or radioactive lab waste?

No. Those streams need a vendor set up for them. We handle biohazardous and regulated medical waste, sharps and pharmaceutical waste.

What about broken glass and slides?

They are sharps and go into a puncture-resistant container, collected with the rest.

Does it matter if we autoclave first?

It changes the packaging and the route, not whether we can collect. Tell us what you treat on site and we set it up accordingly.

What documentation do we get?

A waste manifest for each pickup and proof of legal waste destruction.

Other facilities

We collect from these too

All 40 facility types we serve

Services

How the waste actually leaves

Local pickup runs from our Mobile, AL office, and mail-back ships to all 50 states. Compare all services.

A quote for clinical & Research Labs

Tell us what you generate and where you are. The Mobile office comes back with a quote, and there is no contract to sign.

Request a quote Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143