Waste Manifest Form
Hazardous waste collection is performed by UND Office of Safety on a routine basis.
Laboratory waste streams consist of various types of waste generated during research and experiments, including biological, chemical, and radiological materials, each requiring specific disposal methods to ensure safety and compliance with regulations.
- Solid: Any of the following contaminated with biohazardous materials: Petri dishes, culture tubes, bench paper, animal bedding, visibly soiled gloves
- Liquid: Liquid biohazardous cultures or specimens, including human blood, body fluids, tissue cultures, infectious microorganisms, and viruses.
- Sharps: Any of the following contaminated with biohazardous materials: needles, syringes with or without needles, blades, micropipette tips, pipettes, and all glassware.
- Pathological: Human surgical specimens recognizable body parts, organs, brain, and other central nervous system tissues removed from formalin, formaldehyde, or other chemical preservatives.
- Animals: Rodent carcasses, body parts, surgical specimens. (For other animal types contact Office of Safety for direction) **If animals have been exposed to hazardous substances or radiation, see MIXED WASTE.
Solid: All radioactive materials and items exposed to radioactive materials including: pipette tips, tubes, paper.
- Chemical Containers: All empty non-acutely toxic chemicals. (Not on the EPA P-List; EPA P-Listed refer to SDS)
- Liquid: Liquid Chemical Waste
- Sharps: Any of the following contaminated with hazardous materials: needles, syringes with or without needles, pipette tips, pipettes, and all glassware.
- Hazardous: Any unused, controlled pharmaceutical material, including pills, injectables, vaccines, and antibiotics.
- Non-Hazardous: Any unused, non-controlled pharmaceutical material, including pills, injectables, vaccines, and antibiotics.
Waste materials that are a combination of two or more different categories, for example Biological and Chemical or Chemical and Radioactive.
Batteries, Light bulbs, Mercury-filled thermometers
- Glass: All non-contaminated glass, either broken or unbroken.
- Pipette Tips: All non-contaminated plastic, either broken or unbroken.
- Gloves/Towels: Disposable gloves, wrappers, packaging materials, and paper towels that are not visibly contaminated.
A breakdown of the different types of waste and details associated with their disposal can be found on the UND Waste Streams Poster.
To request waste collection, submit a Waste Disposal Manifest to the Office of Safety by completing the form below.