Medical Waste Disposal Biddeford, ME

You have several options in Biddeford, and MedPro Disposal is among them. We have served healthcare facilities since 2009, hold a BBB A+ rating, and are rated 4.5 out of 5 across 882 Google reviews. Our pickups cover medical waste, sharps and pharmaceutical waste throughout Maine. Service is confirmed at your address when you request a quote.

Put the same questions to every company serving Biddeford: what Maine requires of them (Maine DEP, Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management can confirm), where your waste is treated, whether you get a record of each pickup, how often they collect, and how the contract handles its term and price changes. Two or three quotes on the same terms will show the real differences.

Any Biddeford facility that treats patients or handles blood, sharps or pharmaceuticals does. In federal Medicare and HRSA records, Biddeford has 2 nursing homes, 1 dialysis center and 1 health center site. The national provider registry also lists 8 physician offices with a lab certificate, 26 dentists and 9 pharmacies. Private practices, dental offices, veterinary clinics and laboratories generate it too, though not all of them appear in those records.

The cost depends on how much waste your Biddeford practice makes, your containers, how often you need pickups and how we get into your building, so we quote each facility individually. MedPro customers save an average of 30%.

Medical waste from a Biddeford practice goes to a company set up to collect and treat it, not into the dumpster or to a drop-off site. Maine regulates it as biomedical waste. Waste from home use, such as personal sharps, follows separate household rules in York County.

Maine regulates medical waste as biomedical waste. The main rules are cited as 06-096 CMR ch. 900, §§ 6(C), 7. Maine DEP, Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management is one of the agencies that oversees them. Federal OSHA oversees workplace safety for private employers in Maine. Requirements can differ by waste type and by county or city, so confirm what applies to your Biddeford facility.

Not from a healthcare facility. OSHA’s bloodborne pathogens standard requires contaminated sharps to go into closable, puncture-resistant, leakproof, labeled or color-coded containers, which are then collected for treatment. Household sharps follow local rules, so check Maine’s household sharps guidance in York County.

Yes, we offer both online with certification. OSHA requires employers whose staff may be exposed to blood or other infectious material to train them at hire and at least yearly, and HIPAA requires covered practices to train their workforce on patient privacy.

Biddeford has 3 ZIP codes: 04005, 04006, and 04007. We confirm service at your address when you ask for a quote.

Close to Biddeford we serve Saco (5 mi), South Portland (13.9 mi), Sanford (15.6 mi), Westbrook (16.5 mi), Portland (17.1 mi), and North Windham (24.7 mi), along with the rest of Maine. Service is confirmed at your address when you ask for a quote.

Use the form at the top of this page or call (888) 641-6131. Have your Biddeford ZIP code, your type of practice, the kinds of waste you generate and roughly how much ready, and tell us whether you are starting service or switching providers.