[Pharmwaste] Looking for Collection Receptacle Inner Liners

[Ed Gottlieb]

Greg,

The inner liner can be an opaque plastic bag.  My program uses heavy duty, black plastic garbage bags.  The bag can be sealed with tamper-proof tape.  The bag size, weight, and ID # can be written on the tape with indelible marker.

To prevent officers from being stuck with a sharp, the bags should be handled with care.  Immediately placing the bag in a cardboard box or plastic storage tote is a good idea.  Alternately, the collection boxes plastic tote could be replaced with a cardboard box (if you can find one that is the same size) which would be lined with the plastic inner liner.  That may be the most efficient way to handle collected medications, especially if they will go to a reverse distributor.  Be sure to copy the required information (bag size, weight, and ID #) onto the box from the inner liner.

Best of luck,

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607) 273-8381
fax: (607) 273-8433
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From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] on behalf of Fabisiak - CDPHE, Greg [greg.fabisiak at state.co.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:22 AM
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Subject: [Pharmwaste] Looking for Collection Receptacle Inner Liners

Good Morning,

I'm wondering if anyone is aware of vendors that are selling drug collection receptacle inner liners. I'm looking for inner liners to be used by law enforcement agencies. Since, in some cases, they may be turned over to a reverse distributor for disposal, they would need to be constructed and labelled as described in Subsection 1317.60 of the DEA rule for disposal of controlled substances.

My Google searches for vendors have come up empty. I'm only looking for the liners, not the entire receptacle.

Any assistance would be appreciated!


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Greg Fabisiak
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