Click on the link in the id number column for more information about the registration.
Medical waste disposal regulations texas.
Please note that it is always good to check with your city and even your facility as their medical waste disposal regulations may be more strict or.
The regulations covering the storage handling collection transport treatment and disposal of medical waste and other special waste for texas health care related facilities are outlined in title 30 texas administrative code 30 tac chapter 326 326 3 23 1 and explained further in 25 tac part 1 chapter 1 subchapter k 1 132 2.
Treated medical waste may be managed as routine municipal solid waste and disposed of in a type i municipal solid waste landfill with some exceptions.
Many states have regulations requiring medical waste treatment technologies to be certified licensed or regulated.
Requirements for the management and disposal of medical waste in texas with links to rules guidance and forms.
For more information about treatment and disposal for medical waste facilities see 30 tac 326 75 r and for generators see 30 tac 326 39 c and 326 41 c.
Look for medical waste in the program column.
State rules establishing the requirements for the collection transport transfer storage treatment and disposal of medical waste and for registering medical waste processing facilities.
At the bottom of the page is a listing of the site s registrations with tceq.
The alternative treatments are generally used to render the medical waste non infectious then the waste can be disposed of as solid waste in landfills or incinerators.
In texas once the generators of medical waste disposal have adhered to regulations for collecting storing transporting and treating their waste they may then use permitted municipal landfill and sanitary sewer systems as their final disposal location.
A five digit number starting with 50 or 55 50 or 55 indicates a transporter of medical waste.
This guidance is based on rules pertaining to medical waste that became effective may 26 2016 contained in title 30 texas administrative code chapter 326.
Title 30 texas administrative code chapter 326.
Transporting waste in texas rg 086 rules.
Managing and disposing of medical waste managing and disposing of medical waste.
Untreated medical waste and operators of medical waste treatment facilities or mobile treatment units.
F medical waste facilities on site treatment services and mobile treatment units that send treated medical waste and treated medical waste including sharps or residuals of sharps to a solid waste landfill must include a statement to the solid waste landfill that the shipment has been treated by an approved method in accordance with 25 t a c.
