§ 21-79. Special procedures for transportation and handling of biomedical waste.

No biomedical waste shall, for purposes of disposal in the City of Cartersville, be transported into the City of Cartersville or from place to place within the City of Cartersville except under the following conditions:

(1)

All transports shall be in refrigerated trucks maintaining a temperature of not more than forty (40) degrees Fahrenheit.

(2)

All trucks transporting medical waste shall be used exclusively for the transport of medical waste and each truck shall have placed upon it at a prominent location a sign reading as follows: "Medical Waste Only - Not for Transportation of Other Materials." Such sign shall be in bright yellow letters readily discerned from a distance of one hundred (100) feet.

(3)

All biomedical waste shall be transported in leak-proof, puncture-proof boxes of the following specifications:

Die cut body with lid attached. Blank sheet size 62 7/8 × 74 finished product size—Inside dimensions—18×18×23 board—400 double wall B/C flute, board combination 69/40/69/40/69 wet strength medium, water proof adhesive. Board to be curtain coated with wax on both sides. All mediums to be wax impregnated. Box must have leakproof corners. Box will be self-locking outer liner of box to be of oyster white linerboard. Box to be printed four (4) panels, one (1) color. Print to include appropriate information on the contents and handling of the materials contained in carton.

Liner for above carton. Blank size—39 13/16 × 74 5/8 No joint scored sheet to fit above carton to further insure that it is leakproof. Board—400 double wall B/C flute, board combination 69/40/69/40/69 wet strength medium, water proof adhesive. Board to be curtain coated with wax on both sides. All mediums to be wax impregnated.

(4)

No biomedical waste shall be transported for purposes of disposal into City of Cartersville, Georgia, in plastic bags having colorants which contain cadmium, arsenic, mercury, antimony, lead or selenium. The planning commission may require random samplings of plastic bag material from any principal use medical incinerator facility to assure compliance with this section. The planning commission may also require any owner or operator of a principal use biomedical waste incinerator to demonstrate that it has taken proper precautions and made proper arrangements with biomedical waste generators and handlers to assure compliance with this section.

(5)

No principal use biomedical waste incinerator may be operated in the City of Cartersville, Georgia, unless provisions have been made for storage of the waste in refrigerated facilities in accordance with state regulations. Such refrigerated storage facilities shall be served with a backup system of power generation preventing interruption by reason of electrical failure. The applicant shall show by calculation that adequate refrigerated space is provided to at least two (2) days volume of medical waste at the average rate of delivery.

(6)

No principal use biomedical waste incinerator facility shall be operated in the City of Cartersville, Georgia, unless the facility shall have in operation a screening device which automatically removes unburned particles or globules of a size of two (2) centimeters or more and returns them to the incineration process.

(7)

Each owner or operator of a principal use biomedical incinerator in the City of Cartersville shall, at such time as may be determined by the planning commission, at least two (2) times per year obtain from a planning commission approved engineering firm, a putrescible matter determination test of the incinerator ash in accordance with Method A prescribed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Performance Test Codes, Paragraph 7.3. Should any test show that putrescible material is not being properly incinerated, the license for said incinerator shall be suspended until such time as the owner or operator thereof shall demonstrate to the planning commission that appropriate corrective measures have been taken.

(8)

No principal use biomedical waste incinerator facility shall be operated in the City of Cartersville, Georgia unless the incinerator ash produced by the facility contains no more than six (6) percent by dry weight of combustible material as demonstrated at regular intervals of no more than six (6) months apart. The incinerator ash shall be sampled and tested according to standard methods published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (PTC33) and American Society of Testing Materials.

(Ord. No. 15-92, § IX, 7-23-92)