Question

Biomedical wastes are disposable into different colored containers for collecting different types of waste.
A. True
B. False
C. Ambiguous
D. Data insufficient

Answer 1

Biomedical wastes or hospital wastes include infected syringes, needles, fluid bottles, drapers, gloves, cotton bandages, human tissues and other hospital wastes. These also include disinfectants, and other harmful chemicals and pathogenic microorganisms.

Complete answer:
The careless handling of the biomedical wastes pose a high risk of AIDS and other deadly infectious diseases. The biomedical waste treatment is done very carefully and in a scientific manner. The various color codes used for biomedical wastes are:
Yellow colored bags or containers are used for human tissues, body parts and aborted foetus wastes. It also includes animal anatomical wastes like animal faecal wastes, carcasses, organs and blood, body fluids, plaster casts, items contaminated with bloods. Pharmaceuticals wastes like cytotoxic drugs, antibiotics, chemicals like discarded disinfectants, silver X-ray film developing liquid, and bedding contaminated with blood or other body fluids and stocks of live or attenuated microorganisms are discarded in this category.
The red colored bags or containers are used for disposing of wastes like intravenous tubes and sets, syringes, gloves, urine bags, etc. The white colored bag or containers contain wastes that have sharp edges like metals, needles, scalpels, or any contaminated sharp object.
The blue colored wastes containers have broken or discarded glass materials like medicine vials, metallic body implants, etc,.
So it is true that biomedical wastes are disposed of in different colored containers for collecting different types of wastes.
So, the correct answer is “Option A”.

Note:
So, these must be handled and disposed of with utmost care especially in incinerators. Some of these wastes are also treated by autoclaving or micro-waving techniques. Some of these like medicine vials can be disinfected or thoroughly autoclaved and recycled for use