I contacted the EPA in Philadelphia, where I live and asked how I should dispose of my full sharps containers and can you believe they told me to throw it away with my normal trash!? I couldn't believe it, I have tried to bring it to my Dr's and they told me no, I contacted a few of the local Hospitals and they said no, there is a service you can purchase through CVS but it is .00 that is almost like literally throwing in the trash, I don't have to chuck! I wrapped my container in like 5 shopping bags and used a full roll of duct tape and then threw that in a heafty bag full of egg cartons and cereal boxes but I just don't feel right about it, Any ideas?? Y'all have a happy, hell have two!
Phats
You know, they let you drop your newborn baby off at hospitals, but god forbid they help dispose of unsafe needles. How weird is that.
So I say, wrap them in a baby blanket, and leave them on a hospitals doorstep. Do not throw them in the trash. Someone could get injured. Pay the 25
dollars or burn them. They are a biohazard and should be handled properly. I contacted several of our disposal companies and could not find anywhere to dispose of them. Here was I was told:
Drop them in an empty 2liter pop bottle
Take the pop bottle shut
Paste a "biohazard" sticker on it (waste disposal provides them)
call waste disposal and leave it on the porch on trash day.
Very odd if you ask me, when I have sharp containers to put them in. They won't pick them up that way.
I am sure that it is the same here in Wyoming, but our allergy syringes I can break the needles...so I do that before they go into the gullet of the biohazard box. My humira shots are still intact though...there are only four of them. I don't know...I don't feel comfortable just pitching them....I think I will wrap them in a blanket and leave them as Katie said! < =text/>_popupControl(); Try contacting your local health department to take your full sharps containers. I actually use a used gallon milk jug to dispose of mine. One of the girls writes BIOHAZARD and CAUTION: SHARPS on it. And then of course draw pretty pictures on it lol. I bend my needles and then drop the syringes in there and put the cap on.
Our health department take my full containers for free and disposes of them properly.
No one wants to take responsibility for sharps, can't understand it. I bend my needles and put in plastic milk container, tape shut, put out with my trash. That's what I was told to do. I'm really uncomfortable doing it but what do you do? LindyIf you take Humira *not sure if Enbrel does it as well* they offer where you can get a free sharps container from them, they send it to you in box along w/ a sticker to send it back no fee paid to you and they get rid of it themselves. Then you call the 800 number and order a new one.I've got so many sharps containers I used to say I was going to give them aways as Christmas gifts! When I started Enbrel they were always sending them to me. I have them in every shape and size. Anyway, here in MI all I have to do is take them to my RD when I go They dispose of it for me.
After I was showed how to do the shots when I needed blood thinners at the hospital, I was told when I was done then take them back to the hospital or my doctors office for them to dispose of.
15 days later we tired. Both places said tape and throw in your own trash. Even when we explained how we were told to return it to the hospital. They just wouldn't take them.
I hated throwing them away but we were in the middle of moving so I duct taped them and threw them out.
Try where you get your blood drawn. I was told they would just add it to theirs. However, I am taking advantage of the Humira offer. I had 2 years of needles --1 Sharps container full that I took to the post office and it is gone! My fear was having someone know I had needles in my house - or someone stealing the used needles and they knowing it was from my house.
I think the real threat is someone who is picking up the trash gets accidently poked by a used needle and worrying about all that goes with it.
I even called Enbrel Enliven services and they could not tell me where to dispose of the needles. Everyone bitches about biohazardous waste, but it's tougher than tough to figure out how to get rid of it!
get an empty coffee containter, mark on it hazard all over it then when it is about 2/3 full tape the top on really well and put it in the garbage can. Thats what the company that takes our garbage told me to do. THe health department by me wouldnt take it and the nurse at my RDs office said that they cannot take them because they are charged a price per pound from an outside company so they are not allowed to take needles from patientsHERE IN OREGON IF YOU DISPOSE OF NEEDLES IN TRASH THEY WILL FINE YOU, I BELIEVE PER NEEDLE. SO PUTTING IN TRASH COULD BE BAD FOR YOU FINANCIALLY!!
SAFEWAY PHARMACY WILL DISPOSE OF THEM (LITTLE NEEDLES) FOR 4.00 IF THEY ARE IN A CONTAINER. ALSO SOMEONE ELSE ALREADY TOLD YOU ABOUT HUMIRA. GREAT DEAL IF YOU ARE ON IT.
KAREN
I live in NC and my RD told me to throw it away in the trash! They also said if I didn't feel comfortable doing that I could bring it to the office.