Clinical and Healthcare Waste Collection
Clinical waste must be segregated, contained and collected by licensed specialists. We help healthcare and personal care businesses arrange the right service.
- Licensed suppliers across England, Scotland and Wales
- Waste paperwork provided with every job
- Free, no-obligation quotes
Clinical waste collection is the scheduled or one-off removal of healthcare waste – such as infectious waste, sharps, medicines and offensive waste – by licensed carriers for treatment or incineration at permitted facilities. It is separate from general waste and skips, and correct segregation at source is essential. NationwideSkipHire.com helps clinics, dental practices, care homes, pharmacies, vets, tattoo studios and beauty salons arrange collections through licensed suppliers, subject to verified supplier coverage in your area.
Enquiries go through our WastePrime quote form, or call 0333 121 1056.
Segregating clinical waste
Healthcare waste is separated into streams using colour-coded packaging. Common examples include orange bags for infectious waste suitable for alternative treatment, yellow for waste requiring incineration, sharps containers for needles and blades, purple-lidded containers for cytotoxic and cytostatic medicines, and yellow-and-black bags for non-infectious offensive waste. Your supplier will confirm the streams and containers that apply to your setting.
Your responsibilities
As the producer you must classify and segregate waste correctly, store it securely until collection and keep consignment or transfer notes. Some treatment facilities require a pre-acceptance audit of the producer’s waste. Hazardous clinical waste travels with a hazardous waste consignment note in England and Wales and a special waste consignment note in Scotland. See our hazardous waste guide for background.
What to include in your enquiry
To set up a clinical waste service, please include:
- Material description – what the waste is, where it came from and its condition
- Quantities – number of items, approximate weight or volume
- Packaging and containment – how it is currently stored, bagged, drummed or contained
- Relevant photographs – the waste, its containers and the collection point
- Safety data sheets – where the material is a product or chemical that has one
Tell us the type of setting, which waste streams you produce, how much per week or month and how often you would like collections.
Typical waste streams
- Infectious clinical waste
- Sharps
- Offensive (non-infectious) hygiene waste
- Pharmaceutical and medicinal waste
- Cytotoxic and cytostatic waste (by arrangement)
- Dental amalgam (by arrangement)
Not accepted
- Clinical waste mixed with general waste
- Unsealed or overfilled sharps containers
- Radioactive waste
Not sure? See our waste types guide or ask us when you book.
Suitable for
- GP surgeries and private clinics
- Dental and veterinary practices
- Care homes and home care providers
- Tattoo, piercing and beauty studios
Clinical Waste Collection – your questions answered
Can’t see your question? Call 0333 121 1056 or send us a message.
Can clinical waste go in a skip?
No. Clinical waste must be segregated and collected by a licensed specialist.
Do I need sharps bins and coloured bags?
Yes. Suppliers usually provide the correct containers and bags for each stream as part of the service.
How often are collections made?
It depends on your volumes, from weekly to monthly or on request, subject to supplier availability.
Do you cover multi-site healthcare groups?
Multi-site services can be coordinated through one point of contact; see national accounts.
Get a free, no-obligation quote
Tell us the site postcode, what you need and when – add as many services as the project needs. Photos, site plans or data sheets help us price accurately.
NationwideSkipHire.com is operated by Waste Cloud Ltd. Services are carried out by licensed suppliers in our network across England, Scotland and Wales.