Kathryn,
 I use the 5 gallon red metal waste containers that can be purchased
thru just about every major supplier. We get our formalin in the 5gallon
cube conatiners and it is just too awkward to try and pour waste
formalin back in.  We pay the hospital to come and pick up the red waste
containers and they dispose of  the contents and bring the containers
back. We use this same method for disposal of our xylenes and ethanols.
Betsy Molinari
Texas Heart Institute

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> From: 	ruud[SMTP:ruud@olypen.com]
> Sent: 	Monday, February 14, 2000 11:51 PM
> To: 	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	formalin containers
> 
> Hello, We are trying to be environmental sensitive and are washing our
> formalin containers relabeling, filling, and sending them back out.
> We have
> been having leakage problems, does anyone else do this?  What kind of
> containers are you using, how many times can they safely be reused and
> what
> method do you use to keep track?  Thanks for all your help.  I hate
> the
> thought of tossing all the plastic.
>      Kathryn Ruud
>      Pathology Supervisor
>      Olympic Memorial Hospital
>      Port Angeles, WA
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