Sharps, pathological, pharmaceutical —
handled to Class 6.2.
What this service covers
- Sharps — needles, syringes, lancets, scalpel blades, and contaminated broken glass
- Anatomical waste — human and animal tissue, organs, and body parts
- Pathological waste — histology, surgical, and autopsy material
- Blood & blood products — fluid blood, serum, plasma, and blood-saturated items
- Soft contaminated waste — gauze, dressings, gloves, drapes, gowns, and tubing with blood or OPIM
- Cultures & lab waste — microbiology cultures, stocks, specimens, and swabs (Category B, UN3373/UN3291 schedule)
- Pharmaceutical waste — expired or unused medications, non-controlled
- Cytotoxic waste — chemotherapy drugs, vials, and contaminated materials
- Isolation waste — PPE and materials from infection-control settings
- Dental & veterinary biomedical waste — extracted teeth, blood-contaminated dental materials, animal tissues, and clinic sharps
- Vaccine & vial waste — spent vials, ampoules, and immunization sharps
- Sharps containers & UN3291 bagging supplied on first pickup at no charge
How it works
You request a pickup — by phone, email, or the customer portal. Within one business day we confirm a window and dispatch a manifest number. A Class 3, TDG-certified driver arrives in our hazardous-cargo-endorsed truck with UN-rated containers if you don't already have them, weighs the load, signs custody transfer with you, and routes the material to the appropriate disposal partner.
You retain the paper manifest on site. The digital twin appears in your portal within 60 minutes. The disposal certificate — signed by the receiving facility — follows within 90 minutes of the truck's end-of-route drop. Every document is archived for the seven-year Alberta retention window.
Target sectors
Pricing details
Base rate of $165 per pickup covers up to the stated base load. Overage is billed at a flat $0.20 / kg — no tier brackets, no fuel surcharge, no documentation fee. Multi-stream customers who consolidate a second stream onto the same visit receive a $15 multi-stream discount per pickup.
No minimum frequency. No annual contract. Cancel any time, with one business day's notice.
The credentials behind
this specific stream.
Every Bioshield service runs under the documented regulatory regime listed below. Certificates available on request.
UN3291 packaging
UN-rated containers for Category B clinical waste — supplied on first visit.
Class 6.2 TDG
Federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods classification, infectious substances Category B.
UN3373 protocol
For Category B diagnostic specimens requiring separate documentation.
Sharps SOP
Driver SOP for sharps custody transfer — no shake test, no manual probe.
Biomedical Waste questions.
Quote for biomedical waste?
One call, one quote, one truck. Same-week pickup standard for new accounts.