Best needle destruction & sharps containers according to redditors

It works, but I try to avoid things that look like food or candy as well as things that can be easily opened. Ideally a lid is permanently attached and a slot cut big enough to fit a blade.


I would not want to have a child find this thinking there may be candy in there. Here is what I use.

These are what I used to use when I was a medic, should meet your needs. If you want to shop around for a different size try googling "Sharps shuttle", that's what we called the smaller containers.

https://www.amazon.com/AdirMed-6-Pack-Biohazard-Disposal-Container/dp/B079TBNYFF/ref=sr_1_2?gclid=CjwKCAjw67XpBRBqEiwA5RCocQyM86eibRGNYSNIAAut8kp3xwRKX8eZuGkVge_er_rF0rZvLqToohoCsUUQAvD_BwE&hvadid=241938625435&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9021480&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=5554398179610338977&hvtargid=aud-647006051489%3Akwd-3041943577&hydadcr=24661_10400817&keywords=sharps+shuttle&qid=1563325952&s=gateway&sr=8-2

It's really important to properly dispose of used needles. There are needle exchanges in many cities or you can just buy this.

Don't half ass this. You can save someones health or at least spare them the incredible stress of an accidental stick.

I personally use:

• This reacher-grabber . It's strong enough to pick up a brick but also can easily pick up cigarette butts at walking speed. It really is a back saver.
  
• This bag holder. It has a handle and keeps the bag open(awesome for windy areas) but is a bit overpriced. I use regular 13 gallon kitchen bags from Costco.
  
• A sharps container from Amazon. I personally don't have a problem picking up(and disposing) or sharps safely, but some people may want to let their city/town municipal workers hand that.
  
• I also use leather hiking boots, bring water, and have a pair of leather work gloves that I rarely use since I never handle any trash with my bare hands.
  
• I also use cut up cereal boxes(or any similar thin sturdy packaging) to make little disposable dog poop dustpans.
  
  For instance, last night I collected (2) 13 gallon bags of trash in a span of 40 min walking/working 4 blocks (both sides) of San Francisco. I had just cleaned up the same area 2 days earlier. San Francisco (Oakland and Berkeley as well) has an overwhelming amount of street trash that is just not getting picked up. Even though the trash keeps coming you can see that the neighborhood looks cleaner, and I've had neighbors say so as well.
  

My area is up two 4-6 hour wait times for assault and about 30 minute - 1 hour wait times for armed robbery.

Useful skills/Tips for Public Safety.

• Get First Aid Training,Basic Life Support,CPR and AED-Defibrillator Training.
  
  
• Learn to use Naloxone, You might find yourself in a situation where you may have to administer the drug to someone that potential overdosed.
  
  
• Get a Public Safety Scanner or Police Scanner.
  
  
• Keep a EMS grade/large first aid kit in your vehicle/home.
  
  
• Keep a safety helmet or hard hat in your vehicle/home.
  
  
• Keep a seat-belt cutter on your person/vehicle.
  
  
• Help clean up your local parks or recreational areas with a sharps container.
  
  Feel free to add to this list. :)

Amazon has them for around $7 and they’re Prime.

Medline MDS705153H Biohazard Patient Room Sharps Containers, 1.250 gal, Red https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JXPVJ26/

Put them in a sharps container, seal it up and throw it out with your regular trash. Or take it to hazardous household waste. DSWA on Lambson Lane collects HHW every Wednesday and the first Saturday of each month.

http://dswa.com/facilities/the-delaware-recycling-center/

You can get a huge sharps container on Amazon for cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/Kendall-Sharps-Container-Rotor-Lid/dp/B000WOOR1M/

Source:

https://safeneedledisposal.org/state-search/?state=DE

For used needles, I use two things when I'm out and about: a BD needle clipper and a sharps shaft. First I clip the needle from the pen needle; then I use the plastic piece that the pen needle comes packaged in to unscrew it from my pen; then I drop it into the sharps shaft. Once I get home, I put it in my usual sharps container (I've also included a link for that below in case you're looking for a good sharps container for home, too.)

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Needle clipper: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VE6KB8/

Sharps shaft: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006AZZQG2

Home sharps container: https://www.amazon.com/BD-4332398307-Home-Sharps-Container/dp/B000SOP4UY/

You ask for a local provider, but you also mentioned having looked on eBay.

Is there any reason this 2 gallon container from Amazon wouldn't work for you?

I use a Sharps container, available online and sometimes at local pharmacies.

If you know anyone in the medical industry, you could try to persuade them to grab one for you, as well.

I assume they thought people would bring them home responsibly.

However that is assuming alot of people that have a needle they need to discard and nowhere to put it alone in a bathroom with a nearby trashcan.

Some people that require daily shots have little containers they keep on them

http://www.amazon.com/Sharps-Container-North-American-Rescue/dp/B006AZZQG2/ref=pd_sim_121_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=31yjR5ZiP2L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1RDVWQ766K5PC5TVSVEZ

When I travel by air I use a small sharps container like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Sharps-Container-North-American-Rescue/dp/B006AZZQG2

You shouldn't have any issues with US Customs with one.

> They dont sell sharps containers at Walmart so you cant get one unless you pull one off clinic wall and sneak out with it

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001B9W78W/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_s_it/142-3567966-7006315?ie=UTF8&qid=1498011848&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Sharps-Container-Biohazard-Needle-Disposal/dp/B001B9W78W/ref=sr_1_3?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1412780809&sr=1-3

The sharps containers I buy are actually really cheap. A few bucks ($6) and they last for a few months, even when on MDI. We thought disposal was going to be a hassle, but it turns out that our local waste transfer station will take them for free. To save trips, we just saved up 6-8 of them before dropping them off. They much preferred to get proper containers as the risk to them is greatly mitigated. When we dropped ours off, they went straight into a 55 gallon barrel, which I assume they later took to an incinerator.

These containers are only $6 on Amazon, but I have seen them cheaper in my local big box store:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SOP4UY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There's also a nifty little needle point cutter that will blunt them for safe disposal.

Listen, this is what you need to do TODAY, NOW.

1. Go online on Amazon or another website and buy her 100 clean sterile syringes that are 27, 28, or 29 gauge luer lock 1ml. The higher the number the better (up to 29), but 27 is fine.
   
2. https://www.amazon.com/Diameter-Individually-Packaged-Biomed-Scientific/dp/B06Y15LBZ5/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=micron+wheel+filter&qid=1562185313&s=gateway&sr=8-2
   
3. Get her alcohol swabs
   
4. https://dancesafe.org/product/fentanyl-test-strips-pack-of-10/ Buy her some of these it's VERY important.
   
5. Buy two of these, needs to be two of them https://www.amazon.com/AdirMed-Sharps-Bio-Hazard-Disposal-Container/dp/B079TLTRXR/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=113GHOFD5RKQQ&keywords=syringe+container+disposal&qid=1562196502&s=gateway&sprefix=syringe+container%2Caps%2C902&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1
   
6. Buy two soda can and cut the bottoms off about an inch from the bottom, cut evenly. She can cook her dope up without using someone else's can/spoon/etc. (spreads HIV/Hep C/Hep B). (PM me your region...depending on her type of dope she may not or should not be heating it up.)
   
7. Tell her if it tests positive for fentanyl, and she's too poor to consider just throwing it away, She should mix up all the dope she bought in one mix, using the same amount of water she injects her bag/dose that she normally does (yes multiple normal doses), POP OFF the needle part of the syringe, and draw up a 0.5ml dose (half as much liquid as normal, half the dose of normal) and squirt a tiny bit up her nose, just a little bit at a time and not all at once, maybe a little squirt every 5-10min ( 30-45min is best but let's be real junkies won't wait). From there she can figure out the potency. If she mixed up say 5 normal doses in one big batch all together and let's say the dope is 80% as strong as her normal dose get her high/well she now knows the other 4 doses are exactly the same strength. Fentanyl mixed in dry powder is SO dangerous.
   
8. Please PM me your general region (nothing more than say your state is needed) and/or country so I can give advice to pass on (whether she should heat up her dope or not, etc.) As well as direct you to other phone numbers to help her.
   
   This stuff will keep her alive MUCH longer, giving her longer to have a chance to get help. It will reduce her chance of IV damage by 99%, reduce chance of Hepatitis C/HIV by almost 100%, and she's less likely to OD.
   
   This should be the ONLY support you give her besides an offer for a free ride and paid for methadone program (if she passes her future drug tests), and don't you dare give her too much equipment all at once or she might be dumb enough to try to resell it. Maybe give her say 10 sets of each (alcohol pad, filter, fentanyl test strip) and maybe a few extra stringes (15-20?). Then wait and see how long until she comes back for more. Eventually you can figure out a spot to stash each "set" near the house but outside in something that won't damage it, assuming you don't want her seeing you or the kid.
   
   Tell her that every time she comes back, either you'll personally exchange it or she'll know where you put the new set outside the house, that she NEEDS to put all her used needles WITH THE CAP ON ALWAYS, the used filters, and the used fentanyl strips and anything else all in the red sharps container, and to take the new/empty container with all the new stuff with her. TELL HER if a single syringe or anything in these kites except the alcohol swabs are missing or the count is short, you will either start giving her less or cut her right off. That way she doesn't just sell this stuff hopefully. (Don't actually count that crap or even touch it; you should just dump it all into massive empty cardboard box inside another cardboard box, and keep it out of reach of your child. Eventually when it's too full, close the flaps and tape up the box inside a box and trash it).
   
   Apart from offering her a free ride to a methadone clinic and offering to pay for her methadone as long as she never fails a drug test after getting in the program(seriously never offer to pay for this more than the first time she fucks it up), give her absolutely nothing apart from maybe a home made sandwhich the SECOND time she visits for more injection stuff, not the first (so you can tell for sure how often roughly that she needs more IV supplies without worrying she's coming extra often just for the sandwhich).
   
   If she can manage say 30 days on the program without testing positive/getting kicked or or getting arrested, maybe you'll "consider changing your living arrangements." (BE VAGUE and promise nothing in stone or anything specific.

I use a sharps container from Amazon. Not sure what I'll do with it when it's full, but I've probably got a solid 4 or 5 years before I have to worry about that.

I am assuming you are T1. I am T2 so not sure what you need to carry with you. I know it is vastly different than what my mother carried 40 years ago.

I put my stuff in my laptop bag most of the time, sometimes in my carry on suitcase.

I use this for longer trips. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0195K6QNK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 By longer I mean more than 2 weeks.

I use this for my Sharps and used test strips: https://www.amazon.com/Ever-Ready-First-Aid-Transportable/dp/B01EGJ9GFA/ref=pd_sim_121_4/134-2990766-5969959?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01EGJ9GFA&pd_rd_r=86b33df2-c57e-4418-93dc-46263fd1e902&pd_rd_w=PC0ZO&pd_rd_wg=Er1YW&pf_rd_p=5c130f77-a5ef-4ffd-9db1-c29a354f52f9&pf_rd_r=7YVCZDPCVQ3BE8BVSW7A&psc=1&refRID=7YVCZDPCVQ3BE8BVSW7A

When I went out of country I had to use the ice packs, I inquired at TSA about the ice packs and their response was: "It is up to the individual agent as to whether to let the ice pack through if it is melted in any way."

Thanks TSA! Way to be consistent and accommodating.

I use a smaller case for most of my trips, 2-4 days. It has a pouch in the front (I think it is for a cell phone) that I keep my test kit in but you have the Libre so ... I can't find the link though. It is by Sun Win International LLC and is called "Double bag Diabetic Organizer".

It has enough room for about 4 pens, needle tips, alcohol pads, and 2 or 3 rolls of Smarties for times I go low.

I am also PreCheck and I never take any of my stuff out of my bag. The one time they searched my bag (because of something else) I just said "I have my insulin in there, there are needle tips." Never had a problem.

Go to the TSA website and print off all the info about carrying medicines and put it in your bag in case someone give you a hard time. This was suggested by a TSA agent at my usual airport.

You should not have to do any additional screening, although they may wand you if the sensor sets off the scanner and they cannot see the sensor.

One of these.

BD Sharps Disposal by Mail Worry free Needle Disposal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001IKKHF4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_X4L9ybTC6WTED

It comes with a box and pre-paid shipping label to use to return when full. Just drop it in a mailbox.

I don't think DE blades have any real way of being recycled. I personally feel they should be regarded as medical waste, particularly any blades that have come into contact with blood. I bought a sharps container on Amazon for $7 that will hold literally hundreds of blades and last me for years. I produce no real waste a negligible amount of this way, considering nothing gets thrown out in my trash can to sit in a landfill, and I will be disposing of it at a drop-off site years from now (the major hospital in my city has one).

EDIT: For the record, I admire your commitment to ecologically friendly practices, definitely not trying to attack you there. Also, that sharps container is mad cheap now: [liiiiiink](Medline Sharps Container Biohazard Needle Disposal Container - 1 Quart https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B9W78W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_7ekQzbZGVCCSY)

Try straight razor or safety razor shaving. Not trying to be a pretentious hipster douchebag encouraging you to buy a $200 dangerous straight razor with no experience. I got a $10 pack of 100 blades to use with my $20 safety razor. After I got comfortable, I got a (literally) $8 straight razor that I use with the same blades. A year later, my only expenses are a thing of shave soap, a sharps container for my old blades, a brush, and a brush stand that a folded out of a piece of coathanger that I colored black with a sharpie.

Is it a revolutionary shave, closer and more perfect than any expensive cartridge? Is every shaving session an equivalent sensation to making love with my face? No. It takes easily 1.5x as long, and requires more components, so I have to let my brush sit out and dry. Changing a blade takes a clear 30 seconds compared to the 2 seconds it used to. BUT, I make up ALL of that time and more with how little I have to run my blade under the water, especially if it's been a few days. And, after the initial, what, $60 investment, I shave for like $10 a year now? And a get a fresh blade every 3 shaves. It could be every shave if I wanted, you snap the 10¢ double edged blades in half for the straight razor, that's five cents a blade. Take that, Dollar shave club. I'm in the six cents shave club, assuming a $10 brick of soap only lasts a year, which it's usually a month or so over.

I picked up one of these Biohazard Sharps Containers from a drug store in Canada, there was no charge for it and when it’s full you can return it to them for disposal. I use it for all my razor and utility knife blades. They are also available on Amazon. Also some public washrooms have these containers mounted on the wall, you could dispose of your blades there.

Real talk you can buy [sharps containers on amazon](Medline Sharps Container Biohazard Needle Disposal Container - 1 Quart https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B9W78W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_g7CsDbN25B65J ) for cheap. Check with your local municipal laws about the disposal of sharps containers, but usually you then put the container in a brown paper bag, label that bag “biohazard-sharps”, fold and staple it closed, then toss with your normal trash