We normally used 4 liter narrow mouth bottles, recycled from laboratory
reagents such as acids and bases, for general laboratory wastes. That
was for economic reasons. We did place large wide stem plastic
funnels on top of the bottles to reduce spills that would contaminate the
exterior of the waste bottles.
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I'm getting ready to order some waste accumulation bottles for
our laboratories and wonder if there is a practical reason to have narrow
mouth bottles rather than wide mouth bottles. It seems like the wide mouth
bottles would eliminate the need for a funnel during the filling process and
lead to less exterior contamination of the waste bottle. However, standard
practice appears to be narrow mouth bottles and I wonder if this is due to a
specific practical reason or inertia?
Thanks for any thoughts on
this.
- Ralph
Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO Chemical Hygiene
Officer Keene State College
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