Clinical waste

Clinical waste includes:

• Blood or bodily fluids
• Excretions
• Drugs or other pharmaceutical products
• Swabs or dressings
• Syringes, needles or other sharp instruments

Medical waste

Medical waste, also known as non-hazardous clinical waste includes:

• Incontinence pads
• Catheter bags
• Non-infectious dressings

These can be disposed of in your black wheeled bin.

If you are finding your current rubbish and recycling collections are not coping with the amount of clinical / medical waste you are producing please complete the below from along with your health care professional.

And post it to:

• Customer Contact Centre, Epping Forest District Council, 323 High Street, Epping CM16 4BZ

We may be able to increase your bins capacity. Processing applications can take up to 2 weeks and we will inform you of the outcome.

Clinical waste (hazardous)

This can only be collected by specialised companies, who have staff trained to collect the waste in a modified and licensed vehicle.

All hazardous clinical waste must be incinerated and must not be disposed of in your wheeled bin. This includes:

• Human tissue
• Blood or bodily fluids
• Excretions
• Drugs or other pharmaceutical products
• Swabs or dressings
• Syringes, needles or other sharp instruments

If you need a separate collection of clinical waste we can arrange for a private contractor to collect your clinical waste. To do this we need you and your health care professional to fill in the clinical waste referral form below.

And send back to:

• Customer Contact Centre, Epping Forest District Council, 323 High Street, Epping CM16 4BZ

Once we have received your referral form it can take us up to 15 working days to process the form.