Sharps, amalgam separator service, lead foil, and red-bag pickup for Maryland dental practices.
Dental practices are small-quantity generators with outsized compliance complexity — sharps and bloody gauze fall under OSHA bloodborne pathogens, amalgam waste falls under the EPA Dental Office Category Rule (40 CFR 441) and Maryland's amalgam separator requirements, lead aprons and foil are universal waste, and old prescription pads and patient charts are HIPAA-regulated. We package all four streams into one quarterly visit with one invoice.
These are the citations Maryland inspectors and surveyors look for first. Your service should be built around them.
| Agency / Rule | What it requires |
|---|---|
| EPA 40 CFR 441 |
Dental Office Category Rule — every dental practice discharging to a POTW must operate an ISO 11143 amalgam separator and submit a One-Time Compliance Report. |
| Maryland Department of the Environment COMAR 26.04.04 + 26.13.11 |
Maryland dental amalgam pretreatment standards and Special Medical Waste rules. |
| OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030 |
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard — written Exposure Control Plan, annual training, and sharps engineering controls. |
| Maryland Board of Dental Examiners COMAR 10.44 |
Infection control and waste handling requirements for licensed dental practices. |
Puncture-resistant sharps container exchange and EPA/USPS-compliant mail-back kits for needles, syringes, scalpels, and other sharp medical devices.
Learn more →Compliant collection, transport, and autoclave or incineration treatment of regulated medical waste (RMW) — also called biohazard, infectious, or red bag waste.
Learn more →Generator-status profiling, lab-pack, and disposal of P-listed, U-listed, and characteristic hazardous waste from clinical and laboratory operations.
Learn more →Segregated collection of expired, unused, and partial pharmaceuticals across non-hazardous, RCRA hazardous, and controlled-substance streams.
Learn more →Locked-bin paper destruction with on-site mobile shredding trucks or off-site plant-based shredding, plus Certificates of Destruction.
Learn more →Maryland-based dispatch. No call centers, no contracts you can't read.
Request a Quote Call 1-240-518-7862Yes — the federal EPA Dental Office Category Rule (40 CFR 441) and Maryland pretreatment standards require an ISO 11143 amalgam separator at every dental practice that places or removes amalgam and discharges to a POTW. We supply, exchange, and document the separator buckets.
Yes. USPS-approved DOT 49 CFR 173.197 mail-back kits are a legitimate program for low-volume practices, and we include the chain-of-custody and Certificate of Destruction OSHA inspectors expect.
Teeth without amalgam are managed as regulated medical waste in red bags. Teeth with amalgam restorations must be segregated as amalgam waste and shipped to a permitted recycler — never the red-bag stream.
We dispatch from regional Maryland hubs in Baltimore, Bethesda, Frederick, and Salisbury. Browse a few cities below or see all Maryland service areas.