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Into which containers are sharps/needles to be dispoased of?

  1. Red pails.

  2. Yellow hard-plastic sharps containers.

  3. Containers lined with yellow bags.

  4. Boxes lined with black/dark green bags.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Places all needles/sharps in Sharps disposal containers immediately after they have been used. This will reduce the risk of needle sticks, cuts, and punctures from loose sharps. Sharps disposal containers should be kept out of reach of children and pets.

How is clean, unbroken or broken glass waste to be disposed of?

  1. Into containers lined with black bags.

  2. Into containers lined with clear bags.

  3. Into a cardboard box lined with a black bag and taped. For small quantities of broken glass, put into sharps containers.

  4. Into containers lined with yellow bags.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Clean, unbroken or broken glass waste should be disposed into a cardboard box lined with a black bag and taped. For small quantities of broken glass, put into sharps containers.

River Gomti has become polluted due to the waste of __________________.

  1. iron and steel industry

  2. paper and sugarcane industry

  3. cement industry

  4. cotton textile industry


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

River Gomti is a major tributary of the Ganges, which is completely polluted due to industrial units established near and around the banks of the river. These industries are sugar industries, yeast units and remaining are agro-based paper companies. It is a major river in Uttar Pradesh.

Anatomical waste consists of human and animal tissue, organs, and body parts. Which containers should this waste be disposed into?

  1. Red containers.

  2. Sharps containers.

  3. Containers lined with yellow bags.

  4. Containers lined with black bags.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Anatomical waste consists of human and animal tissue, organs, and body parts. These wastes are disposed into red containers.

General waste is put into which type of bag?

  1. Containers lined with black bags

  2. Containers lined with clear bags.

  3. Sharps containers.

  4. Containers lined with yellow bags.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Container lined with black bags is a type of bag, where general waste are put. Such bags are useful to line the insides of waste containers  to prevent the insides of the receptacle from becoming coated in waste material. Most bags these days are made out of plastic, and are typically black in color.

Objects that may be capable of causing punctures or cuts, that may have been exposed to blood or body fluids including scalpels, needles, glass ampoules, test tubes and slides, are considered Biomedical Waste. How should these objects be disposed?

  1. Containers lined with black bags.

  2. Containers lined with clear bags.

  3. Sharps containers.

  4. Containers lined with yellow bags.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Objects that may be capable of causing punctures or cuts, that may have been exposed to blood or body fluids including scalpels, needles, glass ampoules, test tubes and slides, are considered Biomedical Waste. These objects should be disposed into sharps containers.

Which statement describes one type of biomedical waste?

  1. Materials that may be poisonous, toxic, or flammable and do not pose disease-related risk.

  2. Waste that is saturated to the point of dripping with blood or body fluids contaminated with blood.

  3. Waste that does not pose a disease-related risk.

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Biomedical waste is any kind of waste  containing infectious (or potentially infectious) materials.  Biomedical waste is generated from biological and medical sources and activities, such as the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of diseases.

Which statement describes general waste?

  1. Much of the general waste at St. Paul's Hospital includes common items found in household garbage.

  2. General waste at St. Pauls Hospital is different and must be treated in special ways.

  3. General waste at St. Pauls Hospital is not the same as other garbage and is dangerous if not disposed of properly.

  4. All of above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Much of the general waste at St. Paul's Hospital includes common items found in household garbage describes general waste. General waste also known as residual or mixed waste, is waste that has not been source separated for recycling.

Biohazardous waste can be one of the following.

  1. Hazardous chemicals

  2. Controlled substances

  3. Cultures, Stock, or Specimens of Microorganisms, Live or Attenuated Vaccines, and Human/Animal Cell Culture

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

The key component to zero waste is ________.

  1. Recycling

  2. Ecological footprint

  3. Biofuel

  4. Industrial ecology


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The key component to zero waste is recycling. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.