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MANAGEMENT
DEFINITION
– Sharps
• Landfill
• Discharge to sewers
• Sterilization/ disinfection.
Treatment and disposal methods by
categories of health care waste
Waste Preferred method Other options
category
Infectious Incineration Landfill after
waste sterilization
Sharps Contaminated sharps by Landfill after
incineration sterilization
Pharmaceutical Expired medicines by Landfill with
waste returning them to secured
suppliers or by contamination
incinerators
Contaminated waste by
incineration
Chemical Unused chemicals by Hazardous
waste returning them to chemicals by
suppliers non – onsite treatment
recyclable by landfill