Mobile County, Alabama
Satsuma is a residential city on the US-43 corridor north of Mobile, and its healthcare is mostly neighborhood-scale: a family practice, a dentist, a clinic room inside a pharmacy.
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.
In Satsuma
Small does not mean exempt, and it does not mean expensive either. A single container, replaced when it is full, is a complete and compliant answer for a practice this size, and it costs nothing in the months you do not use it.
What it must not be is improvised. A rigid, puncture-resistant, labeled container at the point of use, and a route off site that produces a certificate you can show. That is the whole requirement, and it is cheap to meet properly.
Our office is at 1909 Brookdale Drive West in Mobile, and this is its home county. Satsuma is in Mobile County, inside the local pickup area. See the rest of South Alabama, or contact us and the Mobile office will reply.
Alabama rules
Medical waste in Alabama is regulated by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. Workplace exposure is OSHA's. A short guide to both.
The Medical Waste Program sits in Division 335-17 of the ADEM Administrative Code, setting minimum standards for storage, transport, treatment and disposal.
Vehicles carrying untreated medical waste in Alabama must be permitted by ADEM. It is a fair question to ask any hauler you are considering.
Every pickup should leave you a manifest and proof of legal destruction. BioMed provides both.
OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens standard applies to anyone exposed to blood at work. Our compliance portal carries the training course.
Source: ADEM Medical Waste Program, Division 335-17. A summary for orientation, not legal advice. Check the current rule with the agency.
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
Questions
Something we did not cover? The office that serves you can answer it.
Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143Yes, Satsuma is in Mobile County and inside the local pickup area. Smaller practices here usually do better on mail-back.
A puncture-resistant container at the point of use and a compliant route off site. A 1 quart mail-back system often covers a year.
Yes. Residential sharps mail-back ships to any US address and returns on a prepaid label with a certificate of disposal.
ADEM, under Division 335-17 of its Administrative Code, plus OSHA for staff exposure.
Not on mail-back. No monthly fee, no minimum purchase and no fuel surcharges.
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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.
