[Tagging] Sharps / syringe disposal

[Joseph Eisenberg]

I’m a physician. Sharps boxes are designed for safe disposal of all sharp
medical waste, whether a scalpel, needle or broken glass.

I asked a British doctor, and she confirms that “sharps” is also the
correct term in England.

Syringes are not sharp. It’s the needle (which may be attached to a
syringe) that is the issue

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:21 AM Markus <selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 23:10, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > So, would waste=sharps be an acceptable term?
>
> According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_waste),
> sharps waste includes:
>
> * Hypodermic needles
> * Disposable scalpels and blades
> * Contaminated glass and some plastics
>
> Therefore we may need both waste=sharps and waste=syringes as it is
> most likely not allowed to throw e.g. scalpels into boxes that are
> only labelled 'syringes'.
>
> > Would they be best tagged as a separate node of their own? [...]
> >
> > Sharps bins like these https://goo.gl/images/pmXf7G are frequently
> found in public toilet blocks - would they also get a separate tag on the
> building, or just be listed under attributes of the toilet?
>
> I would tag outdoor syringes drop boxes (like
> https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2625/3712579179_78e4c15daa_b.jpg) on a
> separate node and indoor ones as an attribute of the toilet, perhaps
> syringes_bin=yes?
>
> Regards
>
> Markus
>
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