Medical Sharps Disposal

[eques]

Not sure if this is the best place to put this question, but here goes anyway.

Does anybody know where I can dispose of sharps?  My girlfriend has four (soon to be five) filled sharps containers.  I wouldn't mind getting rid of the used needles and lancets, and it wouldn't be quite right to dump them into the river.  Heh.

[Braddogg]

I wouldn't mind getting rid of the used needles and lancets, and it wouldn't be quite right to dump them into the river.  Heh.

You're a bad libertarian 

[Spencer]

Check out this website:

http://www.des.state.nh.us/factsheets/sw/sw-31.htm

Although placing household generated sharps in the regular trash is allowable under state rule, some municipalities prohibit this disposal method. Please check with the local authority to determine whether or not it is acceptable in your community.

[eques]

I wouldn't mind getting rid of the used needles and lancets, and it wouldn't be quite right to dump them into the river.  Heh.

You're a bad libertarian 

Who said I was a libertarian? 

Oh, er, and would it make me a good libertarian to dump the sharps into the river, potentially injuring or polluting somebody else's property?  I'm a bit confused. 

[eques]

Check out this website:

http://www.des.state.nh.us/factsheets/sw/sw-31.htm

Although placing household generated sharps in the regular trash is allowable under state rule, some municipalities prohibit this disposal method. Please check with the local authority to determine whether or not it is acceptable in your community.

Excellent--I'll turn them into the hospital in Laconia as that's closest.  Thanks.

[dareme03244]

Another place you can check with is your local transfer station.  They will take "medical sharps" if you properly store them in a five percent solution of bleach and water.  Seal the top with duct tape. 

[toowm]

I just put used syringes in empty 2-liter bottles, seal them with a cap and put them in the regular trash. No town garbage collectors, so we contract with a private firm that does not have any restrictions.