Sorting guide

This guide comprise those who are working in the building at: ………………………………………..

Real estate manager: ………………………………………..

Contact: questions regarding sorting waste- please contact the environmental representative at your inst.

Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Non-recyclable waste, ( waste that remains after sorting) /
  • Cords,
  • Binders,
  • Clothing,
  • Used dish brushes
  • Candy paper,
  • Paper tissues,
  • Chewing gum,
  • Sticky notes
/
  • Plastic bags,
  • Books,
  • Packaging,
  • mixed paper,
  • hazardous waste,
  • Chemicals,
  • Stabbing and cutting objects,
  • Food
/ Waste baskets. / Cleaning service
Compostable waste /
  • Left-overs,
  • Egg-shells,
  • Fruit pomace,
  • Coffee grounds,
  • Coffee filters,
  • Tea- bags,
  • White napkins,
  • Flowers,
  • Paper towels (Torky)
  • Bread
/
  • Coloured napkins,
  • Plastic,
  • paper
/ Kitchen: Waste baskets for compostable waste. / Cleaning service
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Combustible waste
other /
  • Candy paper,
  • Paper tissues,
  • Chewing gum,
  • Sticky notes
/ Offices: “Sopi” bags and in waste baskets. / Cleaning service
Combustible waste lab.waste /
  • Papter tissues (Kleenex),
  • Clean surface protector sheets,
  • Clean, unjusted nitril gloves,
  • Sticky notes,
  • Gummed paper,
  • Envelopes with gummed sealing,
  • Plastic folders,
  • Transparencies,
  • Carbon paper,
  • Small pieses of styrofoam,
  • Cooling block
  • padded envelopes
/ From LAB: Waste baskets. / Cleaning service
Non-combustible /
  • Brocken glass bottles or drinking glasses,
  • Plaster,
  • Porcelain,
  • ceramics
/
  • Packaging,
  • Scrap metal
/ Lunch room:
Small grey bin on the top of the grey waste tower.
From Lab:
Cardoard boxes/yellow plastic boxes and small yellow plastic containers labeled with hazardous waste / Cleaning service
Recycled paper /
  • Printer papers,
  • Vaxed paper as wraping paper,
  • Newspaper,
  • Magazines,
  • brochures,
  • catalogues,
  • envelopes,
  • window envelopes
/
  • Sticky notes,
  • Gummed paper,
  • Plastic folders,
  • Transparencies,
  • Carbon paper (belongs to combustible waste)
/ Offices: Grey waste basket in offices. When the basket is full, it shall be emptied in the big white or green container in the corridor, cloakroom or copy room. / The person who generates the waste - contact
Campus-service, Medicinare-berget for collecting the recycled paper
mail:

Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Privacy Paper /
  • Waste paper with sensitive content, personal data, research.
/ Corridor: paper shredder. Full container shall be emptied in the big paper waste bin. / The person who generates the waste - contact
Campus-service, Medicinare-berget for collecting the recycled paper
mail:

Cardboard
Note: flattened /cut down! /
  • Only corrugated cardboard with wavy interlayer.
/
  • Paper packaging
  • Plastic covered cardboard,
  • Cardboard contaminated with food
/ Corridor: grey metallic rack
Copying room:
grey metallic rack
Cloakroom:
grey metallic rack / Campus-service, Medicinare-berget. Collecting is done automatically
Packaging (clean) of:
Metal packaging, clean and dry, remove caps and closures that is made of plastic. /
  • Metal capsules,
  • Aluminum and sheet metal packaging
  • Tin cans,
  • Aluminum trays,
  • Light cases,
  • Returnable bottles,
  • Empty spray cans,
  • Bottle caps,
  • Returnable bottles with deposit,
  • Metal food tubes
  • Clean metallic containers from lab.
/
  • Electric and electronic waste or parts therefrom,
  • Tools,
  • Scissors
  • Metal that is not packaging
  • staples
  • metal clip
  • Metal components
/ Lunch room:
In the drawer labeled with metal packaging at the gray waste tower.
From Lab: In marked waste bin on the roll stand in the corridor. Labeled with metal packaging
Only if the items are clean from chemicals!! / Cleaning service
Paper packaging, clean and dry /
  • Cardboard boxes,
  • Milk boxes
  • Juice boxes
  • Paper bags,
  • Wraping paper,
  • Paper packaging by more than 50% of paper or cardboard,
  • Kitchen rolls,
  • Paper cups,
  • Padded enveopes
  • Clean cardboard boxes from lab.
/
  • Corrugated cardboard
/ Lunch room:
In the marked drawer at the gray waste tower.
From Lab: In marked waste bin on the roll stand in the corridor.
Only if the items are clean from chemicals!! / Cleaning services
Plastic packaging
Remove metallic caps and closures /
  • Hard and soft plastic packaging,
  • Plastic clips,
  • Pet- bottles,
  • Plastic cans,
  • Bubble wrap plastic,
  • Plastic caps,
  • Clean plastic containers from lab.
  • Plastic bags,
  • Clean plastic pipettes,
  • Clean plastic tubes
/
  • Styrofoam,
  • PVC-plastic (throws in Non-recyclable waste fraction)
/ Lunch room:
In the marked drawer at the gray waste tower.
From Lab: In marked waste bin on the roll stand in the corridor. / Cleaning services
Packaging
(clean) of:
Glass- colored
Clean and dry, remove caps and closures /
  • Bottles and cans,
  • Clean[1] glass-packaging from lab.
/
  • Broken colored glass,
  • Porcelain,
  • Pyrex glass,
  • glass,
  • Mirrors,
  • Incandescent bulbs
/ Lunch room:
In the marked drawer at the gray waste tower.
From Lab: In marked waste bin on the roll stand in the corridor. / Cleaning services
Glass – clear
Clean and dry, remove caps and closures /
  • Bottles and cans,
  • Clean1 glass- packaging from lab.
/
  • Broken glass,
  • Porcelain,
  • Pyrex glass,
  • glass,
  • Mirrors,
  • Incandescent bulbs
/ Lunch room:
In the marked drawer at the gray waste tower.
From Lab: In marked waste bin on the roll stand in the corridor. / Cleaning services
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
PET-bottles and returnable bottles,
Clean and dry, remove caps and closures /
  • Bottles and cans,
/ Lunch room:
In the marked drawer at the gray waste tower. / Cleaning services
Other waste
Styrofoam /
  • Smaller parts of styrofoam
  • Food containers
  • Major parts of styrofoam.
  • Transport boxes of styrofoam
/
  • Platic parts
  • Plastic containers
/ Lunch room:
Waste bin
From Lab:
Smaller parts- waste bin
Major parts- marked wagon in room 1477 (floor 1000) / Cleaning services
Campus-service, Medicinare-berget. Collecting is done automatically
Wood /
  • Smaller parts of wood
  • Major parts of wood,
  • Transport boxes.
/ Lunch room:
Waste bin
From Lab:
Smaller parts- waste bin
Major parts and volumes, contact Campusservice,medicinareberget / Cleaning services
mail:
Hazardous waste:
Computers and devicies /
  • Computers,
  • devises
/
  • Other electronic waste
/ Not relevant / For pic up, contact Campus-service, Medicinare-berget.
e-post:
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Hazardous general waste:
Otherelectronic wasteandrefrigerator and freezers /
  • Everything that has wired of powered by batteries such as:
  • Telecommunications equipment,
  • Electric motors,
  • Cables,
  • Medical equipment,
  • Laboratory equipment
/ Not relevant / For pic up, contact Campus-service, Medicinare-berget.
e-post:
Flourescent tubes /
  • Flourescent tubes
/
  • Its packaging
  • Regular light bulbs
  • Halogen light bulbs,
  • Low energy
  • Compact flourescent lights
/ Not relevant / For pic up, contact Campus-service, Medicinare-berget.
e-post:
Compact fluorescent lights /
  • Low energy lamps
/
  • Its packaging
  • Regular light bulbs
  • Halogen light bulbs,
  • Floutescent tubes
/ Floor …….: / Campus-service, Medicinare-berget. Collecting is done automatically
Regular light bulbs /
  • Regular light bulbs,
  • Halogen light bulbs
/
  • Its packaging
  • Halogen light bulbs,
  • Floutescent tubes
  • Compact fluorescent lights
/ Floor……… / Campus-service, Medicinare-berget. Collecting is done automatically
Batteries /
  • Torch batteries,
  • Radio batterier,
  • Other samll batteries,
  • Rechargeable batteries,
  • Lithium batteries
/
  • Car batteries (returnes to de deliver company)
/ Floor …….. / Campus-service, Medicinare-berget. Collecting is done automatically
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Hazardous general waste:
Toner cartridges from printers and copiators /
  • Empty toner cartriges
  • Empty toner cartriges that contains any kind of metal mechanism
/
  • Its packaging
/ Corridor:
From Lab: In marked waste bin on the roll stand in the corridor.
Empty toner cartridgies: In marked waste bin for plastic, on the roll stand in the corridor
Empty toner cartridgies with metal parts: Ordinary bin for Non-recyclable waste / The person who change the old toner cartridge to new.
Chemical waste:
Chemical waste
Including contaminated pipette tips, tubes, gloves etc.
Continue Chemical waste /
  • Solid and liquid chemicalwastefor example:
  • residues ofhazardous chemical substance,
  • contaminatedmaterials such assaturated cottonand useddecontaminant,
  • uncleaned packagesthatcontained a dangerouschemical substance
  • Paint
  • unpolymerized Glue
  • Oil
  • Gasolin
/ Plased in a labelled waste carboard box or yellow waste container with a tightly fitting lid.
Further instructions on chemical waste, can be find in the folder “Instructions on chemical and hazardous waste”, located on the web page
The board´s regulations on chemical occupational risks:
Full container/cardboard boxes: Bring to the storage room for chemical, hazardous and biological waste. The door is labeled “AVFALLSRUM”.
Room no: …………… / HA-Andersson
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Hazardous waste:
Hazardous sharps /
  • Used needles,
  • Lancetts,
  • scalpel blades,
  • Broken glass from the lab,
  • Injection bottles with remains from drugs,
  • Used glass ampules
/ In yellow small containers or in Cardboard boxes marked ”Riskavfall”
Further instructions on Hazardouse waste, can be find in the folder “Instructions on chemical and harzadous waste”, located on the web page:
Full container/cardboard boxes: Bring to the storage room for chemical, hazardous and biological waste. The door is labeled “AVFALLSRUM”.
Room no:………. / HA-Andersson
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Hazardous waste:
Biological waste
Not infectious / Parts ofhumans, deadanimals, discarded biological material frompathologicaldepartment
Definition:
Biological agent-Normallynot contagious. Cannot containgenetically modified
micro organisms, GMM, chemical agents, anticancer agents,radioactive substances / Further instructions, please read how to handle the radiaoctive waste on following link:

Shall be stored in freezer until pic up.
Dead animals: bring back to EBM and put in the freezers. / The person who use animals shall bring them back to EBM and put in the freezers
Otherbiological wasteis collected byHAAndersson
Infectious Biological waste
-Human tissues waste and blood waste ( blood are always considered to be infectious)
It also includes contaminated pipett tips, tubes and gloves etc. /
  • Material containing biological, protection class 2 or higher levels.
  • Materials containingbiologicalsubstancesCategory 2 orhigher levels andthat cannot beneutralized.
  • Exwaste frommicrobiologicalactivityof handlinghumanpathogens, bloodsamples containingknown or suspectedrisk of infection.
/ Biological waste
Hazardous sharps (needles, scalpels, broken glass from the lab. And gloves contaminated from chemical substances)
Hazardous sharps and contagious waste
Pharmaceuticals
Genetically modified micro-organism (GMO) waste (not Infectious )
Genetically modified micro-organism waste (GMO) (Infect-
ious )
Radioactive chemicals or items / In big yellow containers or in Cardboard boxes marked ”Riskavfall”
Further instructions on Hazardous waste, can be find in the folder “Instructions on chemical and hazardous waste”, located on the web page
Full container/cardboard boxes: Bring to the storage room for chemical, hazardous and biological waste. The door is labeled “AVFALLSRUM”.
Room no: ……….. / HA-Andersson
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Hazardous waste:
Radioaktive waste
It also includes contaminated pipett tips, tubes and gloves etc. / Shall contain radioactive substances or material that have been in contact with radioactive materials,
orif itis suspected to havebeen in contact withradioactive substances. / Animals containing radioactive substances Radioaktiva försöksdjur transporteras till EBM och läggs i speciella frysar för radioaktivt avfall. Kartongerna / Further instructions, please read how to handle the radiaoctive waste on following link:

Animal subjected to radioactive substances,
transports toEBM andplaced in specialfreezersfor radioactive waste. / HA-Andersson
The person who use animals shall bring them back to EBM and put in the freezers for radiactive waste.
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals
continues /
  • Discarded drugs
  • Pharmaceutical residues
    Expacks oftablets.Drugsin unopenedampoules orvials.
  • vialswith residual
/ In big yellow containers or in Cardboard boxes marked ”Riskavfall”
Further instructions on Hazardous waste, can be find in the folder “Instructions on chemical and hazardous waste”, located on the web page
Full container/cardboard boxes: Bring to the storage room for chemical, hazardous and biological waste. The door is labeled “AVFALLSRUM”.
Room no: ……….. / HA-Andersson
Type of waste / Example / This does not include / Sorted where / Responsible for emptying
Hazardous waste:
Biological waste
Not infectious / Parts ofhumans, deadanimals, discarded biological material frompathologicaldepartment
Definition:
Biological agent-Normallynot contagious. Cannot containgenetically modified
micro organisms, GMM, chemical agents, anticancer agents,radioactive substances / Further instructions, please read how to handle the radiaoctive waste on following link:

Shall be stored in freezer until pic up.
Dead animals: bring back to EBM and put in the freezers. / The person who use animals shall bring them back to EBM and put in the freezers
Otherbiological wasteis collected byHAAndersson

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