Medical Waste Codes
The Regulation of the Minister of Climate of 2 January 2020 on the waste catalogue defines the waste catalogue divided into groups, subgroups and types, indicating hazardous waste.
Depending on the source of their generation, waste is divided into twenty groups, including group "18" containing medical waste codes.
Medical waste is divided into three types:
- Infectious waste,
- Hazardous waste, other than infectious,
- Waste other than hazardous.
Infectious waste is medical waste with codes:
18 01 02* Body parts and organs and blood containers and preserves used for its storage (excluding 18 01 03)
18 01 03* Other waste containing live pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins and other forms capable of transferring genetic material, which are known or for which there are reliable grounds to believe that they cause diseases in humans and animals (e.g. infected diapers, sanitary napkins, underpads), excluding 18 01 80 and 18 01 82
18 01 80* Used peloids after procedures performed as part of medical activities with infectious properties
18 01 82* Residues from feeding patients in infectious wards
Hazardous waste other than infectious waste is waste with codes:
18 01 06* Chemicals, including chemical reagents, containing hazardous substances
18 01 08* Cytotoxic and cytostatic drugs
18 01 10* Dental amalgam waste
Non-hazardous waste is waste with codes:
18 01 01 Surgical and treatment instruments and their scrap (except 18 01 03)
18 01 04 Wastes other than those mentioned in 18 01 03 (e.g. dressings made of material or plaster, bed linen, disposable clothing, diapers)
18 01 07 Chemicals, including chemical reagents, other than those mentioned in 18 01 06
18 01 09 Medicines other than those mentioned in 18 01 08
18 01 81 Used peloids from procedures performed as part of medical activities, other than those mentioned in 18 01 80
