Magic!

[loracs]

How do you make a bag of syringe needles disappear legally?



With the nifty BD Safe-Clip Needle Clipping & Storage Device.  See that little hole on the end opposite my fingers?

 

Put the needle in that hole and squeeze the end I'm holding.

 

And presto-chango, you have a de-needled syringe!  Since the laws changed  on how to handle needle disposal, I've been collecting them in a zip lock bag and it was overflowing.  Now I can throw the syringes in the garbage - they are only used for insulin and copaxone injections - no blood draws.  The mighty little device will hold 1500 needles before I have to send it to a medical disposal facility. 
And the final best thing about it, I got two of them for $15.00 including shipping.  YAY!

Comments

[loracs.livejournal.com]

I understood as long as there was no blood product possible in the syringe, then it was regular garbage. If you are using the syringe for blood draw, then the entire syringe with needle is hazardous medical waste. I'm too tired to try and track it down now, but I really hope this is true. When I had Blue Cross, the pharmacy I used would take the sharps container and dispose of it at no charge. Kaiser doesn't deal with it at all. When I first started using insulin, the nurse educator said to put them in a bleach bottle and poor in some plaster mix and water. Put the lid on tight and shake it up. Then you could put it in the regular garbage.

[firecat]

I have a big sharps container with a prepaid mailing box. It's expensive but it should last a year or two. I think sharpsinc.com is where I got it, but there are a few other choices.