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Medical waste disposal for public health departments

A health department runs a fixed clinic and a moving one. Immunization, testing and outreach happen in schools, church halls and parking lots, and the waste from all of it has to come back to somewhere it can legally leave.

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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.

Clinic staff and a BioMed technician reviewing service records at a health department front desk

What a health department generates

A fixed clinic and a mobile one

At the clinic it is steady: immunization syringes, TB and blood draw sharps, testing consumables and the occasional dressing.

At an outreach event it is concentrated and remote. A vaccination drive in a school gym can fill several containers in an afternoon, and none of that waste should travel loose in a staff car. Sealed containers, a consolidation point and one route off site is the same answer it always is.

  • Immunization sharps Vaccine syringes and needles from clinic and outreach.
  • Testing sharps and devices Draw needles, lancets and contaminated test consumables.
  • Dressings and PPE Blood-contaminated gauze, gloves and gowns.
  • Expired vaccine stock Out-of-date vaccines and injectables from the fridge.

What applies to you

The rules behind the containers

A department is a generator like any other, and in Florida it is also the agency that permits them.

  • Bloodborne pathogens

    OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030 covers clinic and outreach staff alike.

  • Outreach waste travels sealed

    Containers are closed before they move and consolidated at the department, never decanted in a vehicle.

  • Florida's own framework

    Biomedical waste in Florida runs through the county health department under Chapter 64E-16, which the department knows better than we do.

  • Storage limits

    Florida caps on-site storage at 30 days. Alabama works to ADEM Division 335-17.

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

Two services, one account

The fixed clinic and the outreach program want different things, and there is no reason to choose.

Get a quote for your office

  • Scheduled pickup at the clinic

    Routine collection with containers and bags supplied.

  • Mail-back for outreach

    Prepaid systems that ship anywhere, for events far from the pickup area.

  • Sealed transport containers

    Sized for a day of outreach, closed before the vehicle moves.

  • Training on the portal

    Bloodborne Pathogens, Hazcom and HIPAA with instant certification.

Questions

Public Health Departments, answered

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

Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143

How should outreach event waste come back?

In sealed, puncture-resistant containers that are closed before the vehicle moves and consolidated at the department. Nothing is decanted in transit.

Can we run pickup and mail-back at once?

Yes. Scheduled pickup at the fixed clinic and mail-back for remote outreach is a common arrangement.

Do you collect expired vaccines?

Yes, under pharmaceutical waste disposal, which covers expired and unused drugs including EPA hazardous pharmaceuticals.

What paperwork follows a pickup?

A waste manifest and proof of legal waste destruction.

Is there a contract?

No long-term contracts and no hidden fees.

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 public Health Departments

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