What do you put in your sharps box???

[pav]

Only sharps go in my sharps bin, though getting as bad as others a lancet seams to last forever these days.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

+1 for only sharp things. Currently for me:

Used lancets (once in a blue moon!)
Reservoir filler double-spiky thing
Snipped off ends of Medtronic tubing/connectors that have a sharp in them
Enlite sensor needle thing (though this is covered/enclosed so probably fine)

My only addition is obviously medical-looking things that might give someone a bit of anxiety if they came into contact with them so used infusion sets and sensors.

I’ve asked in clinic about strips and they were happy for them to go n household waste for the reasons suggested already.

I dismantle Libre applicators to put the sharp from them in too, then split the plastic according to our local rules do what is and isn’t recyclable.

 

[mikeyB]

There’s nothing sharper and far more danger from a used razor blade. I put them in the paper envelope they come in and pop them in a tin in the metal recycling. Men who use traditional shaving methods don’t have sharps boxes, so I think folk are getting a bit paranoid. Like needles, razor blades aren’t contaminated.

And as has been said, of it’s blood you’re bothered about, do you put sanitary towels or used plasters in a clinical waste bin?