Sharps box collection...

[Mini-Vicki]

Happy Easter guys!
I have a few sharps boxes I need to dispose of, but my pharmacy won't take them.
I was given the number of a company that will collect, but I wrote it in a safe place - so safe I have no idea where I put it!
Does anyone else have to organise this, and if so do you have a number for the company?
I'm in Wiltshire 🙂
My pharmacy isn't open until Tuesday, so I thought I'd try on here first.
Thanks all xxx

 

[Robin]

Happy Easter guys!
I have a few sharps boxes I need to dispose of, but my pharmacy won't take them.
I was given the number of a company that will collect, but I wrote it in a safe place - so safe I have no idea where I put it!
Does anyone else have to organise this, and if so do you have a number for the company?
I'm in Wiltshire 🙂
My pharmacy isn't open until Tuesday, so I thought I'd try on here first.
Thanks all xxx

Try your local council. They usually have ultimate responsibility.
http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/rubbish-and-recycling/hazardous-clinical-waste
(just happen to have read that somewhere. If you don't know, you don't know where to start looking!)

 

[Northerner]

Hi Vicki, this varies so much from CCG to CCG, and often surgery to surgery! Mine are collected by the council - I wonder if the following page will help in your council area?

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/fswastecollectionforresidentswhoneedsupport.htm

 

[Northerner]

Hehe @Robin - posted exactly the same time!

 

[Sally71]

I take mine to the GP surgery and they dispose of them for me.
We only have a 1 litre one though and it takes about a year to fill it - because we're pumping it's only one needle every 3 days, and I put lancets in the normal bin because they are the Multiclix ones in a drum so no sharp bits protruding 🙂

 

[Caroline]

Try the local council but not all councils collect sharps bins from people. my local council says it wont because it is not domestic waste and the sharps are considered clinical waste. Not sure if NHS direct 111 will be able to help.

 

[Mini-Vicki]

Thanks all 🙂
I'll try the council on Tuesday and see what they say.
I manage to fill 1 sharps box a month, so I've got a bit of a collection at the moment 🙄

 

[Northerner]

Thanks all 🙂
I'll try the council on Tuesday and see what they say.
I manage to fill 1 sharps box a month, so I've got a bit of a collection at the moment 🙄

My council give me a 5 litre box - I've had the current one two years and it's only about a quarter full! 😱 Last time I had to get my GP to re-refer me to the service because they had taken me off their register - it had taken so long to fill the box they thought I was probably dead or moved away! 😱

 

[trophywench]

I take mine to the GP surgery and they dispose of them for me.
We only have a 1 litre one though and it takes about a year to fill it - because we're pumping it's only one needle every 3 days, and I put lancets in the normal bin because they are the Multiclix ones in a drum so no sharp bits protruding 🙂

And the blue bit off the end of every reservoir you fill, not to mention the clip on the end of the tubing that connects that to the cannula - I cut them off the tubing and they go in the sharps bin.

Reasons, Sally? - because if the pads of MY finger can fit in the space sufficiently to be spiked - then clearly that's where they all belong. You don't even need to have slim fingers for the reservoir filling double ended spike! - Pete could also be spiked by the fat end of them. Hence, takes me about 4 months to fill one LOL Less now actually cos there's much more waste with the Insight.

 

[Sally71]

Oh yes I put the blue cap off the cartridge in, the bit on the end of the tubing isn't sharp though, is it?! Or is the Insight different?

 

[trophywench]

No - the actual clip is slightly different, but the same design with slightly different dimensions. (so you can't use Combo cannulas)

Yup there's a needle in the channel in the middle of that bit Sally- so if they drop a heavy weight on it at the tip or in the dustcart on the way there - one exposed needle. Safer to dispose of it in the receptacle provided!

If you don't see how this could happen - get your daughter to try and access the tip of that needle, with the soft part of the pad/end of her little finger - I've done the exact thing accidentally - and I assure you it hurts!

 

[Austin Mini]

GPs surgery or pop into your local hospital where they do blood tests. In ye olden days we put 'em in a Domestos bottles and into the dustbin they went.

 

[jocat]

My local council Tendring district doesn't have anything to do with sharps, pre insulin a sharps bin 1 litre lasted me about 4 years, since being on basal bolus insulin I fill a 1 litre in just under a month. Have to take sealed bins to my go surgery and give them to one of the diabetes nurses
Jo

 

[trophywench]

I didn't say - our council collect them but since I actually attend medical services in the neighbouring council area - I just hand them in at the pharmacy cos that's how it is done just up the road!

I admit I wasn't keen on the council, cos you register as a sharps bin user, ring em when you have one (so far so good) - and then leave it outside your house and they'll 'collect it some time'. Oh yes? - on a main road, with a bus stop smack in front of the house and a public footpath down the side of it with no fence since the footpath users dismantled it by smashing every piece of wood in it bit by bit? For years all we have left is the posts and the godfathers which anchor them. Useful for the bloke the other side of the 'jitty' from us in the terraced house and back gate onto said jitty opposite our front fence, to thus access his garden with his motorbike - with our complete permission in this instance though, which is just a bit different!

If it ain't nailed down ...... and honestly - it isn't actually what you would think of as a 'rough' area. A few odd small rows of Victorian terraced here and there, but mainly semis and detached, complete with drives and nice gardens! And countryside at the backs of said houses at our end, though we have a cul-de-sac between our rear and the fields beyond - semis in the 'head' and semis and detached in the rest of it. It's bonkers! Nearest pubs are about 3 parts of a mile.

 

[William 2003]

Hi Newbie here. I have my sharps bin collected by a courier from a Drug Company Norvartis because I take other injections (not diabetes related), But I still put my used Insulin equipment in their sharps bins.

 

[pat.y]

Council supplied mine and they collect when you ask.