Organic vs Non Organic Chemicals

[joness]

Hi Everyone,

I was just wondering, is there a list anywhere of "Organic Chemicals" and "Non Organic Chemicals"? I have two bottles set up for disposal but sometimes I am not sure as to what goes in which bottle.

Susie

[RosalieM]

Organic chemicals are carbon based, such as alcohols.

[dime]

The organic ones are usually smelly

[sunray18]

so are some teachers! Can we put them into the waste bottles?

[J]

What about the junior students? They can be pretty smelly at times! Our Year 7s are really on the nose at the moment, and on a good day we might get to 15 degrees.
Don't know how we'll cope when the weather warms up!
J

[noona]

There are a set of old Chemistery book of Inorganic and Oganic that I am sure I can give you if you want them.
Just let me know
P.S. Email me your address

[Labbie]

We do not use the large bottles any more. I just use the disposal list from the CSIS to treat, recycle, Neutralise, dulite down the sink, or store for collection. By keeping the large waste bottles, it cost us quite a bit to get them removed.

I just have much smaller bottles for Silver, Lead, Copper, zinc, copper sulfate of course we recycle.
For silver nitrate: I add solid sodium chloride, stir and transfer the mixture to a silver residues waste bottle. When the precipitate settles, the clear solution above it may be decanted and washed down the sink. Store precipitate for collection.

Ends up so much cheaper.