waste disposal

Re: waste disposal

Mrs Dot Dot — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:26:53 GMT

[quote user="Hannah25uk"]

Mrs Dot Dot

Who collects your tiger stripe bags (is it the people that collected your household waste or your clinical waste)? thanks

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Hi Hannah.... our Tiger bags are collected weekly along with bodies by a pet crem... they also collect our clinical waste stuff but this is only collected once every 2 wks because they charge us £10 extra and have to issue a kind of certificate. Household waste is just collected by the council

Re: waste disposal

Vicky RVN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:21:53 GMT

[quote user="Doolally"]This was my boss's thinking...you can't guarentee all urine and faeces isnt infectious, so he'd rather have everything in one bag and incinerated to save us the risk of putting infectious waste in a non-infectious tiger bag....and saves having lots of different coloured confusing bags around[/quote]

Just what i think!

Re: waste disposal

Doolally — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:11:55 GMT

[quote user="gemma preston"]

I find the new regulations a little confusing. Yes tiger bags should be used to dispose of non infectious offensive waste - that means that urine and faeces should be put in here providing the vet is confident its not infectious. Well you cannot be 100% sure really can you even with a healthy stray cat you cannot unless to test the faeces be sure it isnt infectious so from that i would gather that clinical waste bags (orange or yellow) should be used.

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This was my boss's thinking...you can't guarentee all urine and faeces isnt infectious, so he'd rather have everything in one bag and incinerated to save us the risk of putting infectious waste in a non-infectious tiger bag....and saves having lots of different coloured confusing bags around

Re: waste disposal

Gemma Preston — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:02:04 GMT

We are using tiger bags as advised by our waste collection agency but am not sure if it is sufficient.

All body parts/bloods etc we are placing in the orange bags and storing in the freezer.

I might add that our crematorium has told us that tiger bags are cheaper to dispose of as they go to a rubbish dump. Clinical waste is incinerated.

Daft thing it all should be incinerated personally.

Re: waste disposal

ginny — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:54:22 GMT

Our clinical waste bags are yellow We just use those for all infectious/blood/dressings/kennel waste etc. They are collected and incinerated by pet crem company in Thirsk. We currently dont have tiger or orange bags, i didnt realise that this had become a legal requirement.

Re: waste disposal

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:59:32 GMT

Hannah clinical waste collect all but black bags that honour goes to the standard waste collectors.

Re: waste disposal

Hannah25uk — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:54:02 GMT

Mrs Dot Dot

Who collects your tiger stripe bags (is it the people that collected your household waste or your clinical waste)? thanks

Re: waste disposal

Hannah25uk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:19:53 GMT

but i'm i right in thinking orange bags are for hazardous clinical waste which requires incineration and tiger stripe bags are for offensive waste (urine and faeces) and can be disposed of in landfill.

Re: waste disposal

Mrs Dot Dot — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:19:04 GMT

We don't use orange bags... was decided that they weren't needed but we do have household waste, clinical waste, recycling and tiger bags for medical non-infectious waste- eg urine, faeces, gloves, cat litter etc.... does everyone know how tiger waste is disposed of, after we have carefully collected it, paid for it to be collected and disposed of etc? the bags just go straight to landfill, the same as household waste..... no incineration or proper disposal! Daft, eh?

Re: waste disposal

Vicky RVN — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:35:53 GMT

We use orange bags, it would annoy me having tiger bags as well...we already have household waste, clinical waste, sharps & syringe bins in each room, we don't need more to clutter the place up!

Re: waste disposal

chris beasley — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:53:17 GMT

We had to purchase orange bags from CPC (you cannot get them anywhere else) , they insist on it!

Re: waste disposal

Claire Cameron — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:34:06 GMT

[quote user="Doolally"]

All of our clinical waste goes in orange bags. That's what the boss decided he wanted to do as the most cost effective way...so thats what we do!

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Our clinical goes into orange and then faeces goes in tiger bags

makes no sense to me, just do as im told

Re: waste disposal

Katy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:25:50 GMT

We're the same. It's up to the bosses at the end of the day.

Re: waste disposal

Doolally — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:18:35 GMT

All of our clinical waste goes in orange bags. That's what the boss decided he wanted to do as the most cost effective way...so thats what we do!

Re: waste disposal

Claire Cameron — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:36:29 GMT

Some helpful links

http://www.bva.co.uk/public/documents/hw_poster.pdf

http://www.bva.co.uk/activity_and_advice/Hazardous_waste.aspx

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/default.aspx

xxx

Re: waste disposal

Katy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:28:56 GMT

We don't have tiger bags from our crem? Don't think it's compulsory as they normally keep us up to date with things like that.

Re: waste disposal

Claire Cameron — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:26:54 GMT

Hiya

Yeah we use CPC (cambridge pet crem) for our waste disposal and they supply our bags

Re: waste disposal

Hannah25uk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:22:32 GMT

Yes i thought so to, just not what we've been doing so thought i'd find out from other practices, do you know where you get ur bags from and if their collected by the same people who collect ur ordinary waste?

Re: waste disposal

Claire Cameron — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:29:54 GMT

yup we do, thought it was compulsory now? x