California Health and Safety Code

§ 118215

HSC § 118215 Effective Jan 1, 2015Div. 104 · Part 14 · Ch. 8

Statute text

(a)Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), a person generating or treating medical waste shall ensure that the medical waste is treated by one of the following methods, thereby rendering it solid waste, as defined in Section 40191 of the Public Resources Code, prior to disposal:

(1)(A) Incineration at a permitted medical waste treatment facility in a controlled-air, multichamber incinerator, or other method of incineration approved by the department which provides complete combustion of the waste into carbonized or mineralized ash.

(B)Treatment with an alternative technology approved pursuant to paragraph (3), which, due to the extremely high temperatures of treatment in excess of 1300 degrees Fahrenheit, has received express approval from the department.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 564, Sec. 70. (AB 333) Effective January 1, 2015.