I’m a physician. Sharps boxes are designed for safe disposal of all sharp medical waste, whether a scalpel, needle or broken glass.
I asked a British doctor, and she confirms that “sharps” is also the correct term in England. Syringes are not sharp. It’s the needle (which may be attached to a syringe) that is the issue On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:21 AM Markus <selfishseaho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 23:10, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > So, would waste=sharps be an acceptable term? > > According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_waste), > sharps waste includes: > > * Hypodermic needles > * Disposable scalpels and blades > * Contaminated glass and some plastics > > Therefore we may need both waste=sharps and waste=syringes as it is > most likely not allowed to throw e.g. scalpels into boxes that are > only labelled 'syringes'. > > > Would they be best tagged as a separate node of their own? [...] > > > > Sharps bins like these https://goo.gl/images/pmXf7G are frequently > found in public toilet blocks - would they also get a separate tag on the > building, or just be listed under attributes of the toilet? > > I would tag outdoor syringes drop boxes (like > https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2625/3712579179_78e4c15daa_b.jpg) on a > separate node and indoor ones as an attribute of the toilet, perhaps > syringes_bin=yes? > > Regards > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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