What is Medical waste bags?

Medical waste bags help hospitals and clinics meet health and safety standards. Browse a variety of medical and hazardous waste bags at TLP.

TLP‘s Clinical Waste Bags tough, durable, highly visible waste bags are designed for the safe disposal of medicinal.

Discarded needles, syringes, human tissue, blood, body fluids and hospital radioactive waste are all classified as medical waste. Contaminated medical waste poses a serious threat to human life and the environment. Red and yellow biohazard bags must be used to contain and isolate all medical waste.

Red biohazard bags are used to treat medical waste such as cotton swabs, dressings, paper towels, dirty gloves, aprons, pads, and diapers. In addition, these bags can also be used to collect IV lines and liquid bags for pharmaceuticals, disposable metal parts and syringe bodies.

What is the difference between medical waste and bio medical waste?

The terms are used interchangeably, but there’s a distinction between general healthcare waste and hazardous medical waste. The WHO categorizes sharps, human tissue, fluids, and contaminated supplies as “biohazardous,” and non-contaminated equipment and animal tissue as “general medical waste.”