Environmental Health & Safety
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Hazardous Waste Disposal: |
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Please do not at any time for any reason leave unattended waste materials or chemicals outside the waste lab door.
Do not bring waste to the waste laboratory without an appointment. To request a waste pickup, complete a work order
request at
http://www.fac.pdx.edu/workorder/index.html.
If you have any questions or need supplies, please call the waste lab at 503-725-3403 or e-mail the lab at
psuhazlab@pdx.edu
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Click on the appropriate link and follow the instructions for waste disposal
| Waste Category | Description |
| Chemicals |
new or used chemical reagents, solvents, mixtures and commercial products |
| Biohazards |
sharps, pathological, biomedical, and animal waste |
| Environmentally Hazardous Materials |
commercial pesticides and fertilizers, batteries, aerosol cans, photographic fixer, paint related material, used oil,
asbestos, acetylene and propane cylinders, flourescent light tubes, light ballasts, transformers, and polychlorinated biphenyls
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| Radioactive Isotopes |
alpha-, beta-, and gamma- emitters, tritium, carbon-14, phosphorus-32, uranium compounds, etc. |