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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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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Often it’s incinerated. Maybe the places which don’t do it themselves ship the red hazmat bags to a commercial facility which does the job.

I think there are provisions for if a patient wants to retain their tissue, but it’s not common except for miscarriage.

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