Hazardous Material Disposal and Recycling
What type of material or equipment do you want to get rid of?
MATERIAL/EQUIPMENT |
CONTACT |
Asbestos-containing materials and equipment Includes autoclaves, bunsen burner mats and gauze pads, laboratory ovens, older furnaces, fire-proof file cabinets, anything that produces high heat, fire-proof cabinets, fireproof gloves, mitts and sleeves, laboratory benchtops, laboratory fume hoods lined with transite asbestos cement |
UW Facilities 206.685.3357 |
Automated External Defibrillators (AED) |
EH&S Building & Fire Safety 206.685.0341 |
Biohazardous waste |
EH&S Biological Safety 206.221.7770 |
Biological and radiological mixed waste | EH&S Radiation Safety
206.543.0463 |
Biological safety cabinet |
EH&S Biological Safety 206.221.7770 |
Equipment containing capacitors and transformers may contain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and include electron microscopes and x-ray equipment |
EH&S Environmental Programs 206.616.5835 chmwaste@uw.edu |
Safety cans, including but not limited to faucet, bench, gas, dip tank, plunger, daub, biohazard and oily waste. |
EH&S Environmental Programs 206.616.5835 chmwaste@uw.edu |
Chemical exchange (recycling) |
EH&S MyChem 206.616.4046 |
Chemical waste disposal | EH&S Environmental Programs 206.616.5835 chmwaste@uw.edu |
Chemical treatment by generator Includes acid/base neutralization, Cidex OPA treatment, ethidium bromide, formaldehyde, mercuric chloride |
EH&S Environmental Programs |
EH&S Biological Safety 206.221.7770 |
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Fire extinguishers |
EH&S Building & Fire Safety 206.685.0341 |
Gas cylinders |
EH&S Building & Fire Safety 206.685.0341 |
EH&S Radiation Safety 206.543.0467 |
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Laboratory glass, plastic and tubing Includes bottles, jars, jugs, carboys, flasks, caps, stoppers, droppers, funnels, graduated cylinders, spatulas, rods, tubes, racks, microplates, pipette tips, broken glass, and fragile glass items such as pasteur pipettes, slides and cover slips |
EH&S Biological Safety 206.221.7770 |
Lead-containing materials and equipment Includes lead bricks, shots, sheets, pigs, lead-lined items, weights, sheeting, foil, and metallic lead that has been painted, encapsulated or covered |
UW Recycling |
Lead-containing radiation shielding Includes lead aprons and other lead-containing shielding that is defective and/or contaminated with radioactive materials |
EH&S Environmental Programs |
Mercury-containing instruments Includes temperature or pressure measurement devices, coulter counters, silver-tipped thermometers/thermostats |
EH&S Environmental Programs 206.616.5835 chmwaste@uw.edu |
EH&S Environmental Programs 206.616.5835 chmwaste@uw.edu |
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Pressurized containers/vessels |
EH&S Building & Fire Safety 206.685.0341 |
Radiological waste |
EH&S Radiation Safety 206.543.0467 |
Includes syringes with and without needles, lancets, scalpel blades, razor blades |
EH&S Biological Safety 206.221.7770 |
Potentially-contaminated equipment must have a Notice of Cleaning and Decontamination Form attached. Includes anaerobic chambers, balances or scales, benchtop instruments (refractometers, spectrophotometers), biological safety cabinets, centrifuges, circulators and chillers, cryostats, dead tanks, dryers and freeze dryers, environmental chambers, evaporators, flammables cabinets, freezers, fume hoods, furnaces, gas cylinder holders, glassware, glove boxes, homogenizers and grinders, hoods, incubators, magnetic stirrers and hot plates, meters (pH meters, voltmeters), microfuges, microscopes, mixers, PCR chambers, pipettors, refrigerators, rotators, shakers, sinks, storage cabinets and lockers (used to store chemicals or hazardous waste), vibrators and sonicators, water baths Any equipment containing a radioactive source must by checked by EH&S Radiation Safety (206.543.0467, radsaf@uw.edu) prior to being surplused. Includes, but not limited to any item with a radioactive sticker, gas chromatographs, germicidal UV lamps, lasers, scintillation counters, x-ray equipment |
206.685.1573 |
Includes batteries, fluorescent lights, mercury, oil |
EH&S Environmental Programs 206.616.5835 chmwaste@uw.edu |
X-ray plates |
EH&S Radiation Safety 206.543.0467 |