Public safety and government
A school nurse's office generates a small, awkward waste stream that no district budget has a line for: diabetic students' sharps, an auto-injector after an allergic reaction, and the dressings from a playground injury.
Tell us about your facility and the Mobile office will call you back.
You stay because the pickups happen, not because a contract says so.
Mail-back has no minimum purchase and no fuel surcharge either.
South Alabama, South Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle.
Prepaid return boxes to all 50 states, for offices that make very little.
What a school clinic generates
The volume in any single school is tiny. A handful of insulin needles a week, a used auto-injector once a term, a few contaminated dressings. On its own it never justifies a truck.
Across a district it is a different picture: thirty nurse offices each holding a container, with no consistent plan for emptying them. A small mail-back system per school, replaced when full, solves it at a cost a district can actually approve. Campus health centers, which run closer to a clinic, usually want scheduled pickup instead.
What applies to you
The nurse is an employee with occupational exposure, so the standard applies however small the office is.
OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030 applies to school health staff with reasonably anticipated exposure to blood.
A puncture-resistant, labeled sharps container in the nurse's office, not a plastic tub.
Sharps never go into general waste, however few there are.
Mail-back returns an electronic certificate of disposal, which is the record for the district.
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
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.
For clinics, practices and facilities with steady volume
For small quantity generators, 0 to 50 lbs a month
Your account
Thirty small systems cost less and lapse less often than one contract nobody renews.
Get a quote for your officeA 1 quart system covers most nurse offices for a long time.
Nothing to pay over a summer break, and no minimum purchase.
Prepaid return, with tracking and a certificate for the district file.
A college health center with clinic volume usually wants a scheduled service.
Questions
Something we did not cover? The office that serves you can answer it.
Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143Put them in a puncture-resistant, labeled sharps container in the office, and send that container off site through a compliant route when it is full.
Usually one small mail-back system per school. No monthly fee, no minimum purchase, replaced when full.
No. It is a sharp and goes into the sharps container with everything else.
Those run closer to a clinic and usually take scheduled pickup with containers supplied.
Email tracking from pickup to destruction and an electronic certificate of disposal.
Other facilities
Services
Medical waste disposal
Scheduled pickup of regulated medical waste and sharps. We bring the containers and bags, collect on your schedule and hand you the manifest.
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Bio-hazard waste disposal
Anything solid or liquid that carries an infectious risk: needles, scalpels, tubing, catheters, blood-soaked linens. Handled under Alabama and Florida rules.
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Pharmaceutical waste disposal
Expired and unused drugs, from characterization and inventory to containers, transport and disposal, including EPA hazardous pharmaceutical waste.
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Mail-back program
For offices that make 0 to 50 lbs of waste a month. Fill the container, seal the prepaid box, ship it. Systems from 1 quart to 28 gallons.
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Local pickup runs from our Mobile, AL office, and mail-back ships to all 50 states. Compare all services.
Tell us what you generate and where you are. The Mobile office comes back with a quote, and there is no contract to sign.
