Offensive waste is healthcare waste that is unpleasant but is not assessed as infectious. It usually goes in a yellow-and-black tiger-stripe bag, code 18 01 04, and that entry is non-hazardous. Infectious waste could cause infection and goes in orange or yellow. The producer’s assessment decides. Cost does not.
Non-infectious healthcare or hygiene waste, segregated from both infectious waste and mixed municipal waste. HTM 07-01 uses tiger-stripe for this stream.
Ask whether the item is assessed as infectious. If yes, it is not tiger-stripe. If no, and it is a healthcare item that should not go in a black sack — some continence products, dressings from a non-infectious procedure, used PPE that is not infectious — tiger-stripe is the usual colour where that stream is used.
An unused glove from reception is often general waste. A pad from an infectious case is not offensive waste just because a pad is usually offensive.
No. Offensive waste is non-infectious. Clinical infectious waste uses orange or yellow.
Environment Agency measures allow energy-from-waste or landfill for carefully segregated offensive hygiene waste. That rule is not a reason to put infectious items in tiger-stripe.
The producer, using their risk assessment and HTM 07-01. We can describe typical examples. We cannot rewrite the assessment on the doorstep.
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