Sharps, extracted teeth and amalgam. The amalgam is the part that needs handling differently from everything else.
Dental amalgam contains mercury. It cannot be treated as ordinary clinical waste, and it should not go through the same route as your sharps and soft waste. Amalgam separator contents, extracted teeth containing fillings and setting scrap all need to be kept back and handled as a distinct stream.
Most practices know this. What catches them out is that the separator contents accumulate quietly and then need documented disposal, and that the practice is the one holding the obligation, not the person who fitted the separator.
Extracted teeth are anatomical waste. Kept separately, documented separately, and — where teeth carry amalgam — separately again. We set the containers up so the segregation happens at the chairside rather than being sorted out later, because sorting waste after the fact is not permitted.
A dental practice generates fairly steady waste, which makes scheduling straightforward. Most practices we size run fortnightly or monthly. You get a fixed day, a call before we arrive, and a manifest signed on site.
Month to month, priced on what you actually generate. Even if that is one container.
Get a quoteSend us a photo of what you are currently throwing away and we will tell you honestly whether you need us, and what it would cost.