My new needle disposal box

[Northerner]

Can't see how that would happen, are we to believe that the council shifted through the waste before dumping it in the back of the truck, how else would they know.

As MikeB says, razors go in general waste, even when you cut yourself with one, that would be a good counter argument to those councils.

I did find it unlikely, but apparently they were able to trace the 'perp' 😱 🙄

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Good grief! Seems a bit OTT. Though whenever I’ve looked into this sort of thing the way that people put plasters and sanitary products in general waste seems to go distinctly against guidelines

As soon as it’s something identifiably ‘medical’ and you look it up, it seems that everything needs special handling by people in hazmat suits.

 

[nonethewiser]

I did find it unlikely, but apparently they were able to trace the 'perp' 😱 🙄

Aye right, of course they did.

Northie, they need to put a cordon with warning signs around your house until you get that hazardous waste bin.

 

[Sally71]

If you send a faulty sensor back to Abbott they expect you to double wrap it in two layers of biohazard bags! I put everything else in the normal waste though, nobody has ever told me to do anything else. And what about female sanitary waste? You aren't allowed to flush them down the loo any more, so where else is there to put them? If things like that and used plasters and so on are dangerous then we should all have medical waste bins and shouldn't have to ask for them!

 

[Matt Cycle]

It's ridiculous. So, are they saying dogsh*t and nappies are alright but bits of plastic and a retracted needle are hazardous waste? For years I put my sharps in an empty drinks can, plugged the top with cotton wool and chucked it in the normal waste. I now have a 4 litre container that has a big enough hole to fit the pump cannula applicator. If the container's full then normal waste it is until I get another one. All my household waste goes in the wheelie bin in bags so unless you're placing needles, Libre bits and the like on top in full view in your bin those collecting it will never even see them.

 

[Flutterby]

At my Libre course we were told to put the part with the retracted needle in a sharps box but the other bits in household recycling. The disposal of sensors wasn't even mentioned. It seems we are all being told different things.

 

[Austin Mini]

Mine lives on a kitchen widow ledge, concealed by the edge of the curtain so doesn't get knocked about and has the vicious plastic ' fingers' where your ruddy great hole is Austin. We (or rather my husband) has to break off and remove half of the 'fingers' because trying to get the 'quite big' pump parts with sharps and the quite big infusion set inserters past those things takes a fair bit of effort - if I ever get arthritic finger joints I'll be up a gum tree without a paddle. Coventry CCG will only allow us those ones according to my GP and the pharmacy - a one litre one lasts me about 5 weeks. I've begged and pleaded for one like yours Austin for years - but can't get one.

Ahh TW it’s for putting bigger bits in, I see now I am just a 4mm needle man

 

[Sally71]

You'd need a sharps bin with a very large hole to get the Libre applicator in!!
Methinks they are being somewhat overcautious just to avoid being sued in the unlikely event that there might be some sort of "incident" involving bits of Libre plastic... 🙄

 

[mikeyB]

I agree with Matt, I’m sure binmen dnt have the time or inclination to sort through your black binsacks in the bin. They will if they hear bottles or cans clanking, but that’s about the limit.