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Medical & clinical
REMONDIS is your trusted local partner for medical waste management. We provide reliable, cost-effective and seamless services – ensuring your clinical and medical waste is handled safely and efficiently.
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Medical waste management, simplified
REMONDIS can simplify your medical and non-medical waste management with a single invoice and a single point of contact. Our waste reporting is fully digitised and delivered in real-time via our Client Portal, and our landfill diversion strategies are second to none.
We offer customised solutions with transparent pricing, flexible schedules and responsible management of clinical, hazardous and general wastes and recycling. It's a specialised and simplified medical waste management solution that ensures the safe and efficient handling of both common and complex wastes with the minimum of fuss.
Improper management of clinical, medical and pharmaceutical wastes can result in serious health or environmental hazards for your team, clients and facility. Our 40 years’ of experience has resulted in a deep understanding of the specific needs and risks in managing medical and clinical wastes, and we craft solutions with safety and efficiency at the forefront.
Clinical waste services:
- Medical waste
- Cytotoxic waste
- Masks, gloves and equipment
- Pharmaceutical waste
- Biohazardous waste
- Anatomical waste
- Laproscopic waste
- X-rays
- Sharps disposal
- Bathroom hygiene service
Non-clinical waste services:
- General waste disposal
- Co-mingled recycling
- Organics (food & garden)
- Grease trap service
- Industrial liquids
- E-waste and batteries
- Paper & cardboard recycling
- Secure document destruction
How our medical and clinical waste service works
REMONDIS's clinical and medical service streamlines waste management for medical and related businesses of all kinds and sizes. Here's our approach:
Questions about medical waste management?
What do you need to know about clinical and medical waste?
Medical waste is generated by medical or healthcare professionals including hospitals, medical centres, dentists, pharmacies, veterinary hospitals, aged care facilities and research and pathology facilities.
Materials include needles and sharps, human or animal tissues, body fluids, bandages, instruments, samples, bloods, medical devices and radioactive medical waste.
All these are materials that pose significant health, safety or environmental risks when disposed of improperly and so require specific reporting and transport requirements for compliant disposal. Medical waste streams typically can’t be sent straight to conventional landfill; these include substances defined under the Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods. These waste streams must be pre-treated to a level that satisfies the Waste Classification Guidelines. Each material must be assessed in order to be collected, processed and disposed of properly, in accordance with relevant regulations.
Common medical waste types include:
- Clinical or biohazardous waste
- Cytotoxic waste
- Pharmaceutical waste
- Anatomical waste
- Sanitary waste
- Laboratory waste
- X-rays
- Amalgam
What do you need to know about laboratory waste?
Laboratory waste is any chemical or hazardous waste generated in laboratories. It may be generated by medical or research professionals including at research and pathology facilities, schools and universities.
Materials include chemicals such as acids, alkalis, pharmaceuticals, poisons and toxins, but also includes bio-waste samples including human or animal tissues, body fluids, bloods and samples. All these are materials that pose significant health, safety or environmental risks when disposed of improperly and so require specific reporting and transport requirements for compliant disposal.
Laboratory waste streams typically can’t be sent straight to conventional landfill; these include substances defined under the Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods. These waste streams must be pre-treated to a level that satisfies the Waste Classification Guidelines. Each material must be assessed in order to be collected, processed and disposed of properly, in accordance with relevant regulations.
What happens to your waste?
Waste such as unused chemicals, x-rays, single use steel surgical instruments, clean plastics and uncontaminated sterile wrap may be recyclable. Ideally separated at the source, these are taken to specialist recycling facilities where they are sterilised and then processed into new products.
Any other waste that cannot be safely recycled is taken to specialised medical waste treatment facilities, including our own specialised autoclave at REMONDIS Wingfield, where these materials are treated according to state and federal regulation, then safely disposed of at a suitably licensed landfill. The handling, transportation, processing and disposal of these materials is tightly regulated and licensed.
Regulations vary by state, and REMONDIS will advise you on what is required.
As a guide, in Queensland:
- Chemical waste may be incinerated at licensed facilities
- Cytotoxic waste may be incinerated
- Anatomical waste may be incinerated or treated using chemical disinfenction using peroxide, lime and shredding
- Pharmaceutical waste may be incinerated
- Treated clinical waste (for example, having been treated in an autoclave) may be compacted and disposed to landfill
- Untreated clinical waste may be processed by inceration, autoclave then shredding, chemical disinfection using hypchloride and shredding, chemical disinfection using peroxide, lime and shredding, microwave and shredding, then compaction and landfill at licensed facilities
What materials are accepted in each specialised bin type?
CLINICAL waste bins
Clinical waste bins are generally yellow with yellow lid and white label.
ACCEPTED in clinical waste bins:
- All patient healthcare waste
- Blood / body fluid materials
- Tissue specimens and containers
- Laboratory specimens / cultures (no liquids)
NOT ACCEPTED in clinical waste bins:
- Joint and laparoscopic equipment
- Pharmaceutical waste (schedule 4, 8)
- Cytotoxic waste
- Anatomical waste (recognisable body parts)
- General and recycling waste
- Loose sharps (not in shaprs container)
PHARMACEUTICAL waste bins
Pharmaceutical waste bins are generally yellow with an orange lid and orange label.
ACCEPTED in pharmaceutical bins:
- Vials with residual drugs (secure in sharps container)
- Syringes & IVs (secured in sharps container)
- Sample medications
- Prescription drugs
- Expired or unused medication
- All schedule 4 and 8 drugs
NOT ACCEPTED in pharmaceutical bins:
- Clinical waste
- Anatomical waste
- Loose sharps
- Cytotoxic waste
- Joint and laparoscopic equipment
- General and recycling waste
ANATOMICAL waste bins
Anatomical waste bins are generally yellow with an orange lid and orange label.
ACCEPTED in anatomical waste bins:
- Amputated limbs (must be double bagged)
- Donated blood
- Lab cultures
- Expired blood
- Organ waste tissue
NOT ACCEPTED in anatomical waste bins:
- Clinical waste
- Pharmaceutical waste (schedule 4, 8)
- Loose sharps (not in sharps container)
- Cytotoxic waste
- Joint and laparoscopic equipment
- General and recycling waste
CYTOTOXIC waste bins
Cytotoxic waste bins are generally purple with a purple lid and purple label.
ACCEPTED in cytotoxic waste bins:
- Chemotherapy drugs, tubing and intravenous equipment
- Air filters
- Secured sharps containers (syringes, vials, needles)
- Personal protective clothing / equipment (PPE)
- Respirator masks
- Gloves
NOT ACCEPTED in cytotoxic waste bins:
- Clinical waste
- Anatomical waste
- Pharmaceutical waste (schedule 4, 8)
- Loose sharps (not in sharps container)
- Joint and laparoscopic equipment
- General and recycling waste
LAPAROSCOPIC waste bins
Laparoscopic waste bins are generally yellow with a green lid and green label.
ACCEPTED in laparoscopic waste bins:
- Laparoscopic instruments
- Keyhole survey instruments
- Arthroscopic wands
- Ultrasonic scalpels
- Surgical replacement joints
- Orthopaedic surgical equipment (eg fibular pins, screws, plates etc)
NOT ACCEPTED in laparoscopic waste bins:
- Clinical waste
- Pharmaceutical waste (schedule 4, 8)
- Loose sharps (not in sharps container)
- Cytotoxic waste
- Anatomical waste (recognisable body parts)
- General and recycling waste
Who uses our specialised medical waste management services?
Aged care facilities // Retirement villages // Dentists // Medical Centres and GPs // Public and private hospitals // Rehabilitation facilities // Veterinarians // Pathologists // Laboratories // Tattooists & Cosmeticians // Pharmaceutical manufacturers
Contact REMONDIS to discuss your needs. Call 1800 860 512 or submit your enquiry, and we’ll call you.
What makes REMONDIS different?
Put your medical and clinical waste management in the hands of a company capable of managing all your waste needs – both clinical and non-clinical – and with the industry’s leading online Client Portal. REMONDIS also has the scale and passion to invest in medical waste processing plant and equipment, with specialised facilities in operation and in development.
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