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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There are whole companies that do medical waste disposal. As others have said, Tissues are collected and hauled off for incineration…around here hospitals rarely do it on site.
Stuff that isn’t tissue, but comes in contact with blood or other potentially infectious material is collected in containers labeled biohazard. If it’s trash like syringes and gloves is ground up and autoclaved (baked at a really high heat until it’s decontaminated.) then thrown in a landfill.
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