19-7-113. SPECIAL WASTES.

1. Prohibited Materials. The following materials may not be deposited in a landfill in a refuse can or in a receptacle the contents of which are to be deposited in a landfill: dead animals weighing over 15 pounds; sewage; human or animal excrement; hot ashes; infectious wastes; hospital or medical waste; hazardous wastes, except for household hazardous wastes exempt from federal regulation; radioactive wastes; explosives; containers previously containing pesticides or herbicides unless the containers have been cleaned as required to eliminate substance residue.
2. Hospital or Medical Waste. Hospital, medical or other infectious waste must be incinerated at the point of generation or transferred to another medical facility for incineration. During transfer, the waste must be carried in specially marked red plastic bags bearing the words “hospital waste.”