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Clinical Waste Bags
Clinical waste includes both hazardous and non-hazardous waste, which must be stored and disposed of in accordance with stringent waste regulations. To keep your practice safe and comply with clinical waste regulations, our clinical waste bags allow you to handle and dispose of waste safely. We provide both orange and yellow clinical waste bags to help you segregate your waste according to regulations and clinical waste streams. We also supply embossed postcoded bag ties to ensure full traceability of each waste bag. To ensure safe handling practices our waste bags are best used alongside specially designed clinical waste bins.
Why do you need a Clinical Waste Bag?
Health and Safety
Clinical waste bags are engineered to minimise the risk of contamination. Safeguarding both staff and the general public from handling infectious waste. Our colour coded waste bags help to clearly identify the waste stream to maintain safe wastehandling practices.
Compliance with Regulations
For environmental protection The Controlled Waste Regulations 1993 identifies clinical waste as controlled waste and therefore requires proper disposal under The Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Environmental Responsibility
Many waste bags are designed to be environmentally friendly, reducing the impact on the environment. Our clinical waste bags are made from 30% recycled plastic, helping to offer a sustainable solution to dispose of clinical waste.
What goes in a Clinical Waste Bag?
Soft infectious clinical waste such as contaminated PPE, swabs and dressings.
Do not dispose of sharp waste, glassware, expired medication pill packets, medical tubing or anything that risks a tear or puncture in the clinical waste bag and can pose both a contamination risk and a sharp injury risk. For these waste examples, we would recommend using a dedicated container such as a rigid container or a dedicated sharps bin.
Types of Clinical Waste Bags
Orange Clinical Waste Bags
What goes in orange clinical waste bags?
Orange clinical waste bags are suitable for infectious or potentially infectious soft waste streams that contain no chemicals or pharmaceuticals, such as dressings, swabs and wipes contaminated with bodily fluids from patients with either suspected or known infectious diseases, in line with the Colour Coding Guide.
Specifications:
- For known or suspected infectious clinical waste
- Made from 30% recycled plastic clinical waste bag
- Fully compliant and UN-approved
- Tear and impact resistant orange waste bags
- Complies with Carriage of Dangerous Goods regulations
- Print pigment meets REACH regulations
- All bags tested in UKAS approved laboratories
Yellow Clinical Waste Bags
What clinical waste goes in a yellow bag?
Yellow clinical waste bags are suitable for soft waste containing or suspected to contain the most dangerous of biohazards and pathogens, as well as chemically or pharmaceutically contaminated wastes, in line with the Colour Coding Guide.
Specifications:
- For known or suspected infectious clinical waste
- Made from 30% recycled plastic clinical waste bag
- Fully compliant and UN-approved
- Tear and impact resistant orange waste bags
- Complies with Carriage of Dangerous Goods regulations
- Print pigment meets REACH regulations
- All bags tested in UKAS approved laboratories
Postcoded Bag Ties
Ensure that your waste bags are fully traceable from the point of collection with our postcode embossed bag ties. By doing so, you can prove that you are complying with waste legislation during the carriage and disposal of your healthcare waste.
These bag ties will keep your bags tightly secure during storage and transportation, ensuring no spillage of clinical waste from the opening.
Our bag ties come in packs of 1,000 to ensure a long-lasting supply.
Specifications:
- Shows full traceability of handling and treatment of waste
- Available in packs of 1000
- Bags sealed in line with UN specification
- Embossed with customer postcode
- Reliable and fully tested
Helping to protect the environment with our sustainable clinical waste bags
Initial Medical are accredited to ISO 14001:2015 environmental standards and are focused on delivering sustainable products and operational solutions. Working with our suppliers, we are committed to offering more sustainable solutions from using renewable energy in manufacturing to reducing CO2 emissions during transportation. We are proud that our clinical waste bags now contain 30% recycled plastics.
Our sustainable clinical waste bags comply with the Carriage of Dangerous Good regulations, are UN3291 approved, are tested in laboratories approved by UKAS and meet REACH regulations with their print pigment.
How To Tie a Clinical Waste Bag
Learn how to properly tie and seal a clinical waste bag with our free downloadable poster.
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Clinical Waste Bags FAQs
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What bags should be used for clinical waste?
Clinical waste should be disposed of in dedicated clinical waste bags that are UN- approved, sturdy and tear resistant to reduce the risk of rupture and minimise cross contamination and infection risk.
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What colour are clinical waste bags?
Clinical waste bags are colour coded in line with The Department of Health’s HTM 07-01 Safe Management of Healthcare Waste Memorandum. Which outlines best practice waste segregation colour coding scheme.
Yellow waste bags are for highly infectious soft clinical waste contaminated with chemicals or pharmaceuticals.
Orange waste bags are for infectious or potentially infectious soft clinical waste.
Yellow and black or tiger bags are suitable for offensive waste and non-infectious waste streams
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What colour bag for infectious waste?
Orange bags are typically used for infectious waste however for highly infectious waste yellow bags should be used.
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What is the difference between yellow and orange bags?
Orange bags are used for any infectious soft waste generated from treating infectious or potentially infectious patients, this does not include any pharmaceutical or anatomical waste. Whereas yellow bags are used for highly infectious or chemically/medicinally contaminated soft wastes such as medicated dressings.