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REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE

Why Choose LRI for Medical Waste?

  • Regional pickup coverage across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Northern Illinois, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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  • Single pickups for multiple waste streams

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  • Regulatory compliance experts

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About Our Medical Waste Disposal Service

Logistics Recycling, Inc. provides efficient and hassle-free regulated medical waste disposal. We run pick-up services both on a scheduled and on-call basis to provide timely pick-up appointments throughout the Midwest region. For smaller quantities of waste, we also offer medical waste mailback kits nationwide.

Infectious waste items such as sharps, blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).

Trace chemotherapy items are contaminated with residual amounts of chemotherapy drugs. 

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Human and/or animal tissue.

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Waste from biotech and research labs, such as sharps, pipettes, specimans, & pathogens.

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Sharps Waste | Infectious Waste

Biohazard (Red Bag) Waste


Also known as regulated medical waste, this category includes items that may contain blood or infectious materials. Examples include:

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  • Sharps waste

    • Needles

    • Lancets (fingerstick devices)

    • Syringes

    • Auto-injectors

    • Scalpel blades

    • Pipettes

    • Discarded glass or rigid vials containing infectious agents

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  • Other infectious waste

    • Anything that drips, flakes, or pours (e.g., contaminated with blood or pathogens)

 

All of this waste must be placed in a red biohazard bag and disposed of by a licensed disposal company, such as LRI.

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Trace Chemotherapy Waste

This type of waste falls into two categories:

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  • Items contaminated with residual amounts of chemotherapy drugs, such as empty drug bottles, drug dispensing devices, or IV bags and tubing. (i.e., the container is “RCRA empty”).

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  • Gloves, gowns, masks, goggles, and other disposable items used when administering chemotherapy drugs.

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Trace chemotherapy items are often placed in yellow containers.

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An affordable and compliant solution for disposing of small amounts of trace chemotherapy waste is to use a mail-back kit.

Pathological Waste

We dispose of pathology waste for clinics, research facilities, morgues, funeral homes, and farms. 

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Soft Pathological Waste:

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  • Tissue

  • Human Body Fluids

  • Research Animal Waste

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Hard Pathological Waste:

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  • Bones

  • Body Parts

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Biotech Research Waste

We collect biohazard waste from many biotech, lab, research, industrial, and manufacturing facilities. Some of the typical waste we treat and dispose of for research facilities include:

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  • Sharps

  • Pipettes

  • Specimens

  • Pathogens

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Additionally, we can serve as a backup for your facility when your autoclave is down for repair.

Medical Waste Mailback Kits

Sharps Disposal, Infectious Waste Removal, and Lamp Recycling by Mail, Easily Dispose of Needles, Syringes, EPI Pens, and Trace Chemotherapy Waste. Easily Recycle Lamps.

LRI's Medical Waste Mailback Kits are convenient, cost-effective, and compliant for sharps disposal. USPS and DOT certified, these Sharps and Medical Waste Disposal Mailback containers feature everything you need for compliant disposal, including the rigid biohazard container, shipping materials, return postage, and document noting proper waste destruction. Drop the pre-paid postage box at any U.S. Post Office when your container is full.

Need More Info On Our Mailback Kits?
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Medical Waste Resources

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What Goes in a Red Biohazard Bin

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RMW Packaging Guidelines

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Medical Waste Disposal Map

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