There are many dangerous chemicals in a school, college, or university and many are not obvious. If your facility uses, purchases, stores, or disposes of hazardous materials, you will want to learn how and when to perform a spring chemical…
It is frustrating and time-consuming when you have to prepare your hazardous waste materials for shipping. To make it less confusing and to limit loading times at the dock there are ways you can keep track of your chemical waste…
Laboratory experiments, exotic research, workday procedures, and medical tests all generate hazardous waste. These wastes can be broken down into three categories, (1) pathological wastes, (2) chemical wastes, (3) infectious wastes, and how they are disposed of is regulated by…
Chemical waste disposal can become a challenge for school, college, and university laboratories. Not all materials are safely stored, properly sealed, and labeled correctly which increases the health and safety risks to all students and staff coming into contact with…
Managing end-of-year chemical waste cleanout of your hazardous materials in laboratories, colleges, schools, and manufacturing facilities always comes with new challenges. Keeping up with the constant changes to your state's and the federal government's regulations is crucial for your facility's…
All businesses in any industry are responsible for making safe and sustainable waste management practices their priority. Laboratories, schools, certain government agencies, pharmaceuticals, and research and development all have many chemicals in stock that have gone over their expiration dates.…
A lab cleanout is the removal of any excess, unwanted, abandoned, unused, or expired chemicals left in your school, college, or any other laboratory from last year, or summer programs. This cleanout can involve bio-hazardous or radioactive wastes and any…
The summer break is almost over and now is the time to make sure all your hazardous chemical materials are up to date and any partial or unnecessary substances are disposed of before the next school year begins. Many labs…
When an educational facility, medical center, warehouse, government agency, or laboratory generates an abundance of hazardous waste materials, they have to properly dispose of it every year. It can be a challenging, time-consuming, and costly task to dispose of these…
With the changing of seasons comes the closing of classrooms, meaning it's time to start a chemical cleanout of school and college science laboratories. During the summer months, a lot of your non-teaching staff will remain on campus to clean…