"Elizabeth Blake" <
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> "Marshall" <
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> > My local hospital is no longer accepting sharps containers for recycling of needles etc. Any
> > suggestions?
>
> In NYC, you're supposed to put them in a leakproof, puncture proof container, seal it up & label
> it and put it in the regular trash.
Please don't tell me that NY has a person who sifts through all the garbage looking for writing
that's "non standard" on any (and all presumably) leak proof, puncture proof containers? What do
they do when they find these containers? I bet they throw them in the trash.
I use the
> commercial sharps containers. I reuse pen needles & syringes so it takes
me
> awhile to fill one up. I do always wrap it in a bag before putting it in the trash bag.
You can't do that. The trash inspector won't be able to read the label and your container might slip
through the net and end un..... in the trash
I know that some of the service staff where I live wouldn't
> be too happy seeing it, even if it is sealed. A couple of years ago they sent letters around
> asking people to not just throw insulin syringes into the trash, as one of the service staff
> got poked.
And they knew it was an insulin syringe and not a heroin syringe? Did the person responsible for
this lack of care not LABEL the syringe "For diabetic use only". Shame on him.
>
> Sometimes I have to change my pen needle at work. I put the little inner cap back on, and the
> bigger outer cap from a new needle over that. Then I tape it all up with heavy tape, put it in an
> envelope, fold that up and
tape
> it. I get paranoid that someone might get hurt.
I just put the spent needle in the pen case where the new one came from and then throw it out the
car window on the way home. Or I leave it lying in an ashtray if I happen to spot one (and that's
getting harder these days
Beav