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R120, Pharmaceutical-use waste.

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    Pharmaceutical-use waste

Victoria R120: the waste must come from using pharmaceuticals, rather than making them.

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Waste from using pharmaceutical products, rather than making them. Medicines and cytotoxic drugs have their own codes.

Is Victoria R120 priority waste?

Yes. R120 is pre-classified priority waste, so no mirror assessment decides its Schedule 5 status. Transactions and transport are both reportable.

Where the duty applies, enter R120 as the Schedule 5 waste code in the Waste Tracker record. The tracking exceptions and designation and household rules still apply.

What does Victoria R120 cover?

Waste from using pharmaceutical products, where items 96, 98 and 99 of the Table have no other entry. The source is the use of a pharmaceutical, and the neighbouring healthcare wastes those items name are excluded.

Schedule 5 item
97
Classification
pre-classified

Is pharmaceutical-use waste Victoria R120 or R140?

CodeWhen it fits
R120The waste came from using pharmaceuticals and no neighbouring entry fits.
R140The waste came from making pharmaceuticals or cosmetics.

Name the waste itself before choosing a code for something in it. A chemical in soil or another material doesn't settle which description goes on the load record.

What does a Victoria R120 load need before it moves?

For a reportable transaction, the producer creates the Waste Tracker record before dispatch. A transporter or accredited consigner can do this for the producer, who stays accountable and keeps a copy. Arrange the transporter and receiving site first.

Record the code, an accurate description, form, amount, packages, treatment, industry, dispatch date and the parties involved. Add dangerous goods details where they apply. The driver records collection and delivery, and the receiver records receipt. Priority waste going to landfill, and soil that is priority waste, also needs the disposal category that applies.

Which wastes take Victoria R120?

WasteWhen it’s R120
Pharmaceutical wasteThe pharmaceutical was discarded after supply or use, not during manufacture.

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