Sharps Disposal Program

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Residential Sharps Disposal Program

Do you have sharps you need to dispose of?

Bring them to:

The Pollution Prevention Household Hazardous Waste Facility

Each year, 8 million people across the country use more than

3 billion needles, syringes, and lancets--also called sharps—to

manage medical conditions at home. Unsafe disposal methods

can lead to increased community exposure to sharps.

Sharps: These are objects that penetrate the body such as needles, scalpels, lancets, syringes, broken capillary tubes and glass, knives, exposed dental wires, drills, and burs.

• Sharps can be an accidental health threat to you, your children, your pets, and your community.
  
• Sharps thrown in the trash can hurt sanitation workers during collection rounds, and hurt landfill employees. Sharps can get stuck in equipment.
  Improperly contained sharps can hurt recycling employees when processing them and can get stuck in equipment.
  
• Sharps flushed down the toilet can hurt sanitation workers and contaminate drinking water.
  
• People exposed to sharps face not only the risk of a painful stick, but also the risk of contracting a life-altering disease such as HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis B or C.