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Fill out the chemical waste disposal request form
June 2014
Filling out Chemical Waste Disposal Request Form
1 Locating the link
Go to “All Forms” page on Ryerson IRM website and click on “Waste Pick-up Request (Chemical Waste
Disposal Request Form)” link. You will be requested to log on with your matrix ID.
After logging on, you will notice a screen similar to seen in the figure below. Near the bottom of the
page, you will notice a link to chemical waste disposal request form (as highlighted below). Click on the
link to proceed to submission page.
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2 Filling out the form
On the next screen, you will be prompted to fill out the form that has three important sections
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Your contact information,
Pick up location
and Chemical waste information
Note: The system will save your progress automatically in case you log-out.
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2.1 Contact Information
Under Submitter field, you will need to enter your first and last name (if not automatically
pulled from your Ryerson matrix id).
Under Phone ext. or no field, you will be required to enter your 4-digit Ryerson phone extension
e.g. 1234 or other phone number.
Under Department field, enter your department’s full name (please avoid using acronyms)
Under Supervisor name and email field, enter his/her information.
Additional field can be used to enter more than one email addresses of your supervisor
2.2 Location Information
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The Pick-up date field requires you to select a date from the dropdown list. Chemical waste is
usually picked up every two weeks. Select the earliest available date to ensure waste is picked
up soon (as seen in figure below).
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Under Building field, choose your building from the dropdown menu.
Next field will require you to enter your room number e.g. 1234
Location in Room field will require you to provide the location of the chemical waste in the
room. Please include as many details as possible to ensure your waste is picked up on time.
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2.3 Entering Chemical Information
If you have not been assigned a tag number, leave this field empty. If you have been assigned
one, enter your tag number. If there is more than one tag number, you can add multiple tag
numbers by clicking on “Add” button on the right side.
Under Chemical Composition field, please enter the composition of the chemical. This
information will be helpful in determining the properties of the substance.
Next field will require you to choose the Physical form of the chemical from gas/aerosol can,
solid and liquid.
Depending on the property, you will need to select from “Total Volume” or “Weight” option for
the chemical. Once you select an appropriate option, you will notice that another field will
appear below.
If you selected Volume, you will need to enter the volume in either liters/gallons and weight in
kilograms/pounds.
Under Total Number of Containers field, you will be asked to enter the number of containers (if
there is just one container, enter one)
The next field will ask you to enter container size in litres/gallons
Under Container material field, select the material of the container from the dropdown.
The last field will ask you whether any sharps are included in the waste. There should be no
biological sharps in the chemical waste.
o To ensure safe and proper disposal, please use an approved sharps container
2.4 Multiple Chemicals ready to be picked up
If there is more than one chemical waste ready to be picked up, click on “Add” button to enter the
information for next chemical (as seen in figure below)
3 Submit
Please verify that information entered on the submission form is correct before submitting the form by
click on “submit” button.