Posted By peter In Primary Care many surgeries use formaldehyde when sending tissues samples off to the lab. Once in a while we need to dispose of some of it, but how? Looking for something that is not too expensive given that we are talking of less than 1lt in most cases

Posted By Paul Leadbetter Peter Gone are the days when you might have thought of flushing this sort of thing down the sink! Formaldehyde is special waste and needs to be properly disposed of. Paul

Posted By John Webster Peter Do you make your own arrangements for disposal of clinical waste, sharps bins etc or is this done on a Trust/Board wide basis? If the latter, there is probably already an arrangement in place for disposal of chemicals such as waste pharmaceuticals, x-ray developer etc as well. My first contact would be with whoever gets rid of my sharps bins.

Posted By John Webster Neil, No confusion of terms I can assure you. Most NHS organisations produce waste of both categories and will have a contract with a single waste contractor who can handle both. In Scotland, one national contract covers almost every Trust/Board in the country for disposal of most forms of waste, other than domestic waste, likely to be routinely generated by healthcare premises.