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In TB patient biomedical waste management used glass slide is discarded into which dustbin

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Under the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules (India), a used glass slide (e.g., from AFB/sputum smear microscopy for TB diagnosis) falls under Category "Blue" — the glassware category.
Category Blue - Glassware:
  • Includes broken or discarded and contaminated glass, including medicine vials and ampoules (except those contaminated with cytotoxic waste)
  • Container: cardboard boxes with blue coloured marking (or a puncture-proof blue/white translucent container, per updated 2016 Rules)
  • Treatment: disinfection (e.g., chemical treatment or autoclaving) followed by shredding/recycling
So a used TB smear glass slide should NOT go into the yellow bag (human anatomical/soiled waste) or red bag (contaminated plastics/recyclables) or the white sharps container (needles/blades) - it goes into the blue-coded glassware bin/box.
  • Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, Table 3 (Bio-Medical Waste Management categories)
Quick reference - BMW categories:
CategoryColorContents
YellowYellow bagHuman anatomical waste, soiled waste, expired/discarded medicines, chemical waste
RedRed bagContaminated recyclable waste - tubing, IV sets, catheters, gloves, urine bags
WhitePuncture-proof white containerSharps - needles, syringes with fixed needles, scalpels, blades
BlueBlue-marked cardboard box/containerGlassware and metallic body implants - broken/discarded glass, vials, ampoules
Note: A quick check against very recent guideline updates (post-2016 amendments) turned up no contradicting evidence in this pass since I did not run a PubMed check for this India-regulatory/administrative topic — it's a policy/rules question rather than a clinical evidence question, so PubMed literature isn't the relevant source here.
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