Industries
Medical waste for Utah healthcare. Built around your facility.
Same service, tuned to what your building actually generates. A dental practice and a laboratory do not have the same problem, and they should not get the same container.
Medical offices
A steady stream. The easiest kind to over-bill.
Exam-room sharps and routine red-bag waste, quoted against what the rooms actually generate.
Laboratories
In a lab, segregation is the whole job.
The container is the easy part. We bring the right one for the streams we are authorised to collect, and name the ones we are not.
One room or twenty, the rules are the same.
Mostly small and mid-sized generators: facilities that need a service plan sized to their work.
Dental practices
Sharps at every chair, a small red-bag stream and no room to spare in the sterilisation area.
See detailsMedical offices
Exam-room sharps, routine red-bag waste and a front desk that does not want another vendor to chase.
See detailsVeterinary clinics
Surgical days, sharps and a waste mix that most providers never bother to ask about.
See detailsSurgery centers
Higher volume, tighter turnaround and no tolerance for a missed pickup.
See detailsLaboratories
Cultures, specimens and a stream that has to be segregated correctly before it ever reaches a container.
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We service
- Senior living
- Aesthetics & med spas
- Other small healthcare generators
And more.
Handling & compliance details
Every kind of practice mis-sorts a different stream.
The stream that costs you money is rarely the one you expect.
| Facility | Primary stream | Secondary stream | Most often mis-sorted | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dental practice | Contaminated sharps from every operatory | A small regulated medical waste stream | Dental amalgam, which carries mercury and has its own EPA rule, 40 CFR part 441 | 40 CFR part 441 |
| Medical office | Exam-room sharps | Routine regulated medical waste | Ordinary trash red-bagged by habit, which costs more per pound to transport and treat | |
| Veterinary clinic | Sharps from injection, sampling and surgery | Regulated medical waste that spikes on surgical days | Animal-origin waste, where the governing definition is a state definition and not a federal one | |
| Surgery center | Regulated medical waste arriving in case blocks | Sharps at the point of use | Peak-day capacity, planned against an average week that never actually happens | |
| Laboratory | Cultures, stocks and specimen waste | Sharps and contaminated broken glassware | Chemical and solvent waste, which is a RCRA question and not a medical waste question |
Every row is a starting point, not a determination about your facility. Shred Med confirms in writing which of these streams it collects, and names the ones it does not, before service starts.
The rules do not change by vertical
Your waste mix changes with your building. The authorities behind it do not.
- Year the federal medical waste demonstration program expired
- 1991
- No comprehensive federal EPA medical waste rule replaced it
- Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988
- Who regulates medical waste for a Utah facility
- Utah DEQ
- Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control
- Utah Department of Environmental Quality
- The rule behind most day-to-day handling in a small practice
- 29 CFR 1910.1030
- The OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
- 29 CFR 1910.1030
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Let's make medical waste one less thing to worry about.