§ 118035 Medical Waste Transfer Rules

• •Medical waste can't be moved from one truck to another unless it's at a special approved place.
• •The only time you can move medical waste to another truck is if the first truck breaks down or there's an emergency.
• •This rule is to keep people safe from germs and dangerous stuff in medical waste.

A truck carrying used needles and bandages from a hospital breaks down on the highway.

The driver can move the medical waste to another truck right there because the first truck is broken. But if the truck wasn’t broken, they’d have to drive all the way to a special transfer station to move the waste.