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Whether your practice is a registrant, and what that obliges you to do, is a question for your own DEA registration rather than for this page. Nothing in this table states which of these streams Shred Med accepts.",{"id":655,"lead":656,"type":657,"items":658,"heading":682},"where-pharmaceutical-waste-programs-go-wrong","Every one of these starts as a reasonable assumption.","pitfalls",[659,665,671,676],{"source":660,"instead":661,"mistake":662,"authority":663,"consequence":664},{"label":618},"Route every discarded medication to a container, and treat the sink as closed to medication waste.","Pouring unused medication down the sink","epa","The 2019 EPA management standards for hazardous waste pharmaceuticals prohibit healthcare facilities from sewering hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, and a sink is not a disposal method for anything on this page.",{"source":666,"instead":668,"mistake":669,"authority":663,"consequence":670},{"label":667},"40 CFR 262.14, 262.16, 262.17","Work out your RCRA category from your monthly hazardous waste quantity, and your medical waste category from your state rule, as two separate answers.","Assuming one \"small quantity generator\" means the other","The RCRA hazardous waste generator category is set by the kilograms of hazardous waste generated in a calendar month, and a state medical waste small-generator category is a different rule with a different threshold. Practices routinely read one status as the other.",{"source":672,"instead":673,"mistake":674,"authority":663,"consequence":675},{"label":481},"Have your own formulary reviewed against the RCRA lists and characteristics by somebody qualified to do it, rather than relying on a generic list from a vendor.","Deciding a drug is non-hazardous because it sounds harmless","Whether a specific product is P-listed, U-listed or characteristic is a determination about that product, not about how dangerous it seems, and some very ordinary items are listed.",{"source":677,"instead":678,"mistake":679,"authority":680,"consequence":681},{"label":500},"Keep controlled substances under your own DEA requirements and confirm the destruction route in writing before anything is discarded.","Dropping a controlled substance into the pharmaceutical waste container","dea","DEA rules give controlled substances a separate destruction path that has to render the substance non-retrievable, and a general pharmaceutical waste container is not that path.","The practices that get this wrong are not the sloppy ones.",{"note":684,"bullets":685,"heading":686,"bodyHtml":687},"We collect the streams we are authorised to collect, and we name every one of them in writing before service starts.",[],"Some streams need a different specialist. We will tell you which.","\u003Cp>Most facilities run more than one medication stream, and most have at least one that has been going the wrong way for years. Send us the list and we will tell you exactly what we take and how each one is handled.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"h1":388,"ogImage":689,"metaTitle":690,"metaDescription":691,"canonicalOverride":304},{"alt":455,"imageId":304,"imageUrl":456,"srcsetBase":457},"Pharmaceutical Waste Disposal in Utah | Shred Med","Medication waste disposal for Utah healthcare facilities. The right container and the right path for each stream, confirmed before service starts.",[693,698],{"groupKey":694,"question":695,"answerHtml":696,"sortOrder":362,"lastReviewedAt":697},"med-faq-small-generators","Do you serve small medical-waste generators?","\u003Cp>Yes. Small generators are most of who we built this for.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A single-chair dental practice, a one-doctor clinic or a small lab can have a well-run program. We size the service around the facility and its actual volume.\u003C\u002Fp>","2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z",{"groupKey":699,"question":700,"answerHtml":701,"sortOrder":368,"lastReviewedAt":697},"med-faq-switching-providers","How do I switch providers?","\u003Cp>Check what notice your current agreement requires, then tell us your target date.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>We will line up container delivery and your first pickup so there is no gap where waste is accumulating with nowhere to go. Send us your current invoice at the same time — it is the fastest way for us to see what you are actually being charged for and what you actually receive.\u003C\u002Fp>"]