Sharps & Waste Disposal

Most municipal garbage or recycling collection programs do not allow the disposal of a sharps container within the garbage or recycle bin. To find out if this is the case, it is always best to contact the local facilities and ask. The only time it is permissible to toss a sharps container in the garbage is if your municipal garbage disposal company expressly states it.

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Sharps container disposal options unfortunately vary from state to state. It's important to ask your doctor or nurse, or home-care nurse to explain to you how you should use a sharps container and where it may be disposed. Not all garbage disposal facilities will allow you to place a sharps container directly in a garbage bin.

A biohazard sharps container is a hard plastic container specially designed to allow the safe disposal of syringes and needles, as well as other sharp medical instruments. Sharps containers within the U.S. are usually red and marked with the universal biohazard symbol for ease of recognition.