Keep it closed, in the right colour, in a store the public cannot wander into, until an authorised carrier collects it. Do not hold it in a corridor, a waiting room or a black sack. The producer’s duty of care starts when the waste is produced, not when the van arrives.
Waste kept so it cannot leak, be opened by the wrong person, or be mistaken for general rubbish. HTM 07-01 and the duty of care both expect segregation and safe storage. They do not set one national number of days for every surgery.
There is no single legal interval for every practice. Frequency follows how fast the containers fill: weekly, fortnightly or monthly are typical for a surgery; a busier clinic may need more than one visit a week. Bio Waste Solutions Group accepts a day only if the round will hold. Call 0121 663 6796 if a store fills between rounds.
Sharps stay in the UN bin. Medicines stay in the medicines container. Amalgam stays in its pot, never a sack or a drain. Unknown chemicals stay identified and apart. Household clinical waste from a resident is the council’s service, not a bag added to a practice store.
Only if that is a secure, agreed point and the bags are closed. A public pavement is not a store.
No. Decanting spreads contamination and destroys the description of the first bag.
The producer. The carrier’s duty starts with the waste they accept. A refused bag stays yours.
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