Acrylamide Disposal!!! - (Oct/21/2009 )

Hi all..

Can anyone tell me how to discard acrylamide gels presuming i dont have a government run service tat will collect all harardous waste from my lab!!!

Cheers
Pradeep

We collect the polymerized acrylamide gel in a plastik flask and dispose it with the normal lab disposal. If the acrylamide is polimerized it shouldn't be hazardous.
Greez jana

we throw polymerized acrylamide gels into the regular garbage. there is no need to pay extra to remove them from the lab.

and, yes, we are heavily regulated and this is appropriate.

thanx everyone!!!

What about incinerate the gel ? is it safe?

http://www.inchem.org/documents/hsg/hsg/hs...ionNumber:4.7.2

might be useful!!!

Pradeep Iyer on Oct 22 2009, 07:13 AM said:

the link is educational but it is about the acrylamide monomer. once polymerized the polyacrylamide is non-toxic.

adrian kohsf on Oct 22 2009, 12:43 PM said:

This I won't do in a lab..only in a kind of furnace. The polyacrylamide contains nitrogen and to incinerate it with lab equipment (e.g. bunsen burner) will produce a whole zoo of chemicals, as well toxic (such as nitrogen oxides) as non-toxic (if it works perfect only CO₂ and water)...

hobglobin on Oct 23 2009, 02:45 AM said:

I see, this is because we discard into incineration bins which will be incinerated by our university hired company. I Not sure how they burn it, but i hope the gas will not be simply release into the air and then pollute the environment.

adrian kohsf on Oct 22 2009, 07:32 PM said:

that should be fine.