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Needles and Strips - What do you do with them?

ConleighS
ConleighS Posts: 1,058 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
I've a bunch of containers of used strips and now collecting needles. How do I dispose of them? I know just throwing them away is bad....

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  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    I don't know anyone interested in recycling them :s, but you can cram the strips and a couple lancets in an empty strip cannister and just pitch them or drop them at a clinic or doctor's office with medical waste bins. (I only change the lancets every few weeks and go through 5-10 strips/day, so there's plenty of space.)
  • jvcjim
    jvcjim Posts: 812 Member
    edited May 2017
    a "sharps box" works well. where i live i can simply throw the box in my trash... other places you can get rid of the box is usually at your dr's...
  • judyvalentine512
    judyvalentine512 Posts: 927 Member
    Here in Ottawa, and I'm sure a lot of other places, the pharmacies have a sharp container(usually free). When it is full, you bring it back and they give you a new one. Check your pharmacy or clinics in your area.
  • ConleighS
    ConleighS Posts: 1,058 Member
    I'll check with my pharmacy. Thanks.
  • amyfrogred
    amyfrogred Posts: 187 Member
    A plastic water bottle or a empty medicine container works for me.
  • ConleighS
    ConleighS Posts: 1,058 Member
    amyfrogred wrote: »
    A plastic water bottle or a empty medicine container works for me.

    And then do you just throw away?
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