Your institution must comply with all local, state, and federal guidelines 
for disposal of hazardous waste.  You can be held personally responsible 
for any infractions.  Your safety guy may not have all the correct 
information.  I don't know about Alaska (although I always imagined it as 
the last really pristine state) - but I've never worked in another state 
where formalin could be poured down the drain - EVER.  In Hawaii, we joked 
about pouring it into a volcano, but really didn't want to ire Pele, the 
goddess of fire.  At that time, (10 years ago) we were paying $1,500 per 
55 gallon drum for disposal of xylene and formalin waste.

Jacqueline M. O'Connor HT(ASCP)
Abbott Laboratories
Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Discovery Chemotheraputics
847.938.4919





Jill Songer 
Sent by: histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
01/16/2004 07:47 AM

 
        To:     Barbara Murray , Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
        cc: 
        Subject:        Re: [Histonet] Formalin down the sink


We collect ours in 5 gallon containers and our Environmental Health and 
Safety Dept. picks it up once a week. From there it gets picked up by a 
truck and hauled off to an unknown (at least on my part) destination.





At 08:04 PM 1/15/2004, Barbara Murray wrote:
>Greetings,
>We have been using a solidifier for our formalin, putting it 
>into  biohazard boxes for pickup by the  housekeeping dept. We were told 
>by our Safety Officer that we can now pour it down the drain with lots of 

>running water.
>For the ones of you who are using formalin, how are you disposing of it?
>Thanks for your replies. Have a great day and weekend!
>
>Barbara A. Murray,HT.(ASCP)
>The Alaska Native Medical Center
>Anchorage, Alaska
>
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Jill Songer HT (ASCP)
Histopathology Lab
Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital
Virginia Tech


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