As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS: The "resource conservation and recovery act", the "toxic substance control act", the "comprehensive environmental response, compensation and liability act", the "solid waste disposal act" or any comparable federal or state statutes or any regulation promulgated under any of such federal or state statutes relating to the protection of human health or the environment.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: Any and all hazardous or toxic substances, materials or wastes as defined or listed under the environmental laws.
INFECTIOUS WASTE: Means and includes:
Biological Waste: Blood and blood products, excretions, and exudates. Secretions, suctionings and other bodily fluids that cannot be directly discarded into a municipal sewer system, and waste materials saturated with blood or body fluids, but does not include diapers soiled with urine or feces.
Culture And Stocks: Etiologic agents and associated biologicals, including specimen cultures and dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate and mix cultures, wastes from production of biologicals, and serums and discarded live and attenuated vaccines. "Cultures" does not include throat and urine cultures.
Pathological Waste: Biopsy materials and all human tissues, anatomical parts that emanate from surgery, obstetrical procedures, autopsy and laboratory procedures and animal carcasses exposed to pathogens in research and the bedding and other waste from such animals. "Pathological waste" does not include teeth or formaldehyde or other preservative agents.
Sharps: Needles, IV tubing with needles attached, scalpel blades, lancets, glass tubes that could be broken during handling and syringes that have been removed from their original sterile containers. (1996 Code § 13.50.020)