Device components are designed to minimize health, safety, and environmental risks when disassembled or disposed.
Key indicators
Direct contact with any dangerous disinfection media is prevented.
Minimize health, safety, or environmental risks when components are disposed of through local channels (e.g., landfill, incineration).
Minimize user contact with surfaces where pathogens or toxins may be concentrated, such as external surfaces of ceramic filter elements.
Notes and exceptions
Evaluate the toxicity of disposed disinfectants to other organisms such as fish, insects, livestock, and crops.
Supporting evidence
Drinking water contaminants maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) page. United States Environmental Protection Agency website. Available at: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html. Accessed April 1, 2011.
