The Medical Waste specified in points 18.01.03* and 18.02.2002* (waste whose collection and disposal are subject to specific requirements in relation to the prevention of infection) of the European Waste Catalogue are:
- Human body tissues and organs.
- All waste originating from environments in which there is a risk of airborne biological transmission, as well as from isolation environments in which patients suffering from a communicable disease are present and have been contaminated by
- a) blood or other biological fluids containing blood in such quantity that it is visible
- b) faeces and urine in the case of a specific patient in whom a disease that can be transmitted by these excretions has been clinically identified by the treating physician.
- c) food debris from the patient's disc, semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid or amniotic fluid, including: needles, syringes, blades, surgical scalpels, instruments for colposcopy and Pap tests, non-sterile eye rods, TNT eye rods, drainage and intubation tubes, catheters (bladder, venous, arterial, for pleural drainage, etc.), connectors, circuits for extracorporeal circulation, disposable basins for obtaining endometrial biopsy material, transfusion sets, contaminated instruments from intravenous serum administration, dialysis filters, disposable gloves, disposable material: droppers, test tubes, protective clothing and masks, glasses, cloths, sheets, boots, galoshes, shirts, medical materials (gauzes, tampons, bandages, plasters, tubular sutures), bags (for transfusions, for urine, for parenteral nutrition), infusion sets, colonoscopes and gastroscopes, nasal tubes for bronchosuction, for oxygen therapy, etc. brushes, catheters for cytological sampling, disposable rhinoscopes, hysteroscopes, teeth and small body parts that are not recognizable, empty containers of live antigen vaccines.