How do medical facilities (hospitals, out patients, plastic surgery facilities, etc) dispose of things like body parts that are amputated, or skin that has been removed etc?
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They throw them in the biohazard bin. Fluids are stabilized with a powder that converts them to a gel to prevent leakage and thus accidental exposure when handling then they get tossed into the biohazard as well. Boxes of biohazard waste are stacked up until a collection company comes and throws them all into the truck where they’re transported to an incinerator.
I use to mark the boxes to warn the drivers when they contained infectious, antibiotic resistant material such as MRSA. But then a driver started freaking out and complaining that they had to handle such material, no matter that it’s their literal job. So I quit marking the boxes, as they are required to handle all the material under maximum precaution anyway.
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