Posted By C Kennedy
Hi,
Can anyone point me in the right direction to obtain advice about the correct methods of disposing of animal organs such as hearts and livers which are used for dissection in school science lessons please? Organs are obtained from local supermarkets and/ or local butcher?
Animal eyes are also used (although I don't know where these are purchased from).
Would organs and eyes be treated as hazardous/clinical waste or standard waste.
Look forward to any advice!!Thanks.

Posted By Chas
I suggest you contact CLEAPSS (www.cleapss.org.uk). Your school should be a member and they give a lot of advice on such matters. Hope this helps

Posted By Colin Reeves
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Of course, they could be used in Domestic Science lessons (I know, some of us are old enough to remember them!!)

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Colin

Posted By Adrian Watson
The waste is commercial waste.

Regards Adrian Watson

Posted By Graham Bullough
Why not find out what the school kitchens do with their uneaten meat and other food waste? It probably goes into school waste bins because re-using waste food from commercial kitchens for pig swill, etc. ceased some time ago because of concerns about the risk of spreading BSE, etc. Science dept and kitchens just do different things to different bits of the same sorts of dead animals - after which the remnants can surely be combined for disposal. Also, why not ask the supermarkets and butchers what they do with their unsold or inedible bits of meat and related waste?

Also, though some responders have mentioned incineration, just how easy is it to find accessible/affordable incinerator facilities in the UK with its strict requirements about emissions into the environment?

However, it is foreseeable that the UK could have a new disposal method for food waste sometime in the future. Some European towns and cities, notably in Germany and Austria, already have special facilities for the enclosed rapid decomposition of food waste in order to produce (I think) methane and fertiliser. My own employer, a local authority, is thinking about having such a facility in its drive to increase recycling of waste and reduce the ever-increasing cost of sending waste to landfill sites. No doubt some other councils are doing the same, so watch this space. However, there might not be many food reduction plants in the UK unless more Brits can be persuaded to segregate their waste into different categories, just as the Germans and Austrians already do. In this respect the Government's recent announcement that it has dropped plans for UK households to be charged for the disposal of ordinary waste, i.e. unsorted waste for conventional disposal, according to weight and/or volume, could be regarded as a setback in encouraging more sorting and recycling.