Needle Disposal

[Guest guest]

The legality varies from state to state.

Joanna Hoelscher

630-833-7361

RE: [ ] Re: needle disposal

Actually, I was at my doctor's office this past week and they said it's not

legal for needles to be thrown in the trash.

[Guest guest]

Here is a couple of links to State Disposal Laws

http://www.safeneedledisposal.org/resslaws.html#NV

http://www.cdc.gov/needledisposal/

This is what it says for home users in Nevada.

Exempts home users of syringes - The definition of medical waste used in

Nevada specifically exempts syringes used in the home. Therefore,

individuals are not required to comply with Nevada's medical waste

regulations and may dispose of syringes in the trash. However, medical waste

generated by a health care provider and taken outside of the home is subject

to the medical waste regulations.

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

In my community, Ann Arbor, MI, there is a division of our Recycle

Ann

Arbor recycling program that will properly dispose of your needles for

you. It involves calling the recycling center ahead of time (they

only

have certain times of the year when they do the needle recycling) and

I

usually store up about 6 months worth of needles before calling for

recycling. I store them in a cut away plastic gallon milk jug with a

big

piece of tin foil over the top affixed with a rubber band so they

don't fall

out accidentally. I store them on a high shelf out of the way, so no

one accidentally gets involved with their contents.

Also, at any major hospital the ombudsperson for the hospital

relations

administration should be a good person to contact for disposal of

medical waste. The disposal of these needles is a category of

disposal

of medical waste. There are several negative results that can occur

from simply throwing the needles in the trash-- so I hope you are

able

to at least locate a local hospital that can have you add in your

needles to their usual medical waste disposal system.

My best to you and my congratulations for your concern about the issue

of

properly disposing of your used syringes and needles. We all help

each

other and our environment thru this sort of thoughtful concern.

All the best

Hurwitz

elizabethwhurwitz@...

>

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Thank you ,

By the responses that I got, it looked at though maybe this subject

had not been brought up before. Quite a few of you were as concerned

as I am, and will probably be looking for better ways to dispose of

their needles. Good for us!

[Guest guest]

When I went to pick up my methotrexate the other day I was telling my pharmacist

what others had been to told to do with their needles (throwing them in the

garbage) and she was apauled. They supply sharps containers which you fill and

return to the pharmacy for another container.

[Guest guest]

I used to take my used Enbrel needles to my doctor's office, but am

also told that the Fire Station takes them. Definitely told me NOT to

dispose in trash!! (I think it's even in the Enbrel literature.)

Enbrel originally sent me a kit of sorts to collect the used shots.

Cheryl M.

[Guest guest]

I would appreciate hearing how any of you handle the disposal of your

needles from Enbrel, etc. I have quite a collection, & everyone I

contact tells me to contact someone else. I live in the Houston area,

so there should be an easy answer.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Judy

[Guest guest]

i had the same trouble - if you have them in a sharps container you can

give them to you rh - they should take them.

[Guest guest]

Do you use the sharps boxes from Enliven Services? When I got my shots at home,

I'd call the waste co and they usually said to seal the sharps box and throw it

in regular trash. I get my shots at work now, and they're disposed with the

medical waste. I wonder if you could bring your filled sharps box to your dr's

office or the hospital for disposal?

[ ] Needle Disposal

I would appreciate hearing how any of you handle the disposal of your

needles from Enbrel, etc. I have quite a collection, & everyone I

contact tells me to contact someone else. I live in the Houston area,

so there should be an easy answer.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Judy

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Hope I don't get in trouble but, my pharmacist told me to get a milk jug and to

dispose of my needles in it. When it's full, duck tape it closed and put it in

the regular trash.

My rheumy also told me that this was fine.

Phyllis

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Hey there Judy! I get a sharps container from the pharmacy that dispenses my

Humira. Either my insurance covers it completely, or it's free, but I've never

had to pay for it. You can also get a free one if you sign up for the Enliven

Services through Enbrel: http://www.enbrel.com/ra/enliven-services.jsp

I live in PA and can just throw the needles away in the sharps container.

HTH,

Lori

http://home.comcast.net/~queenstitcher/

http://stitchingqueen.multiply.com

[ ] Needle Disposal

I would appreciate hearing how any of you handle the disposal of your

needles from Enbrel, etc. I have quite a collection, & everyone I

contact tells me to contact someone else. I live in the Houston area,

so there should be an easy answer.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Judy

.

[Guest guest]

Hello posters,

( retired doc,haem, oncology, UK here)

Wow,

Help! What a worrying 'gap' you have revealed  and in such a developed country

as USA, a bit frightening... the lack of a standardised provision  for a

complete community service of SAFE and regulated 'supply through to disposal' of

needle requiring treatments and other medical drug wastes especially sharps.It

starts at supply, prescription, the responsibility should be with the

professionals who instigate treatment,  and that should follow right THROUGH

to disposal. It should not depend on a patient thinking 'what's best?', but

thank goodness you do wonder!! Good on you!

Oh what a good  thoughtful question  to raise this  is and it is indeed an

eye opener . It should not be a case of 'passing the buck' or chance between

agencies whether safe disposal is or not but built in to the treatment plan...

Try reading ' Community options for safe needle disposal' ...I hope will

come up with link..

www.epa.gov/epaoswer/othermedical/med-govt.pdf  if this doesn't work

Best wishes,

Chris

[ ] Needle Disposal

I would appreciate hearing how any of you handle the disposal of your

needles from Enbrel, etc. I have quite a collection, & everyone I

contact tells me to contact someone else. I live in the Houston area,

so there should be an easy answer.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Judy

[Guest guest]

The way you're supposed to dispose of them varies by state and maybe

even by community. In my county, there are no rules as far as I know. I

put mine in a plastic container with a lid. I add needles until the

container is full, and then just put them in the regular trash. You

might check with someone in your county government.

Sue

On Wednesday, July 23, 2008, at 09:49 AM, judyamcgee wrote:

> I would appreciate hearing how any of you handle the disposal of your

> needles from Enbrel, etc. I have quite a collection, & everyone I

> contact tells me to contact someone else. I live in the Houston area,

> so there should be an easy answer.

> Thanks for any suggestions!

> Judy

[Guest guest]

Humira at least has a sharps mail back program -

http://www.myhumira.com/Disposal/Default.aspx

You might want to see if Enbrel has something similar.

On 7/23/08, judyamcgee <judyamcgee@...> wrote:

>

> I would appreciate hearing how any of you handle the disposal of your

> needles from Enbrel, etc. I have quite a collection, & everyone I

> contact tells me to contact someone else. I live in the Houston area,

> so there should be an easy answer.

> Thanks for any suggestions!

> Judy

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I put mine in a sharps container, and when full take it to the

doctors office.

>

> Hello posters,

> ( retired doc,haem, oncology, UK here)

> Wow,

> Help! What a worrying 'gap' you have revealed  and in such a

developed country as USA, a bit frightening... the lack of a

standardised provision  for a complete community service of SAFE and

regulated 'supply through to disposal' of needle requiring treatments

and other medical drug wastes especially sharps.It starts at supply,

prescription, the responsibility should be with the professionals who

instigate treatment,  and that should follow right THROUGH to

disposal. It should not depend on a patient thinking 'what's best?',

but thank goodness you do wonder!! Good on you!

> Oh what a good  thoughtful question  to raise this  is and it is

indeed an eye opener . It should not be a case of 'passing the buck'

or chance between agencies whether safe disposal is or not but built

in to the treatment plan...

> Try reading ' Community options for safe needle disposal' ...I hope

will come up with link..

> www.epa.gov/epaoswer/othermedical/med-govt.pdf  if this doesn't

work

> Best wishes,

> Chris

>

>

>

> [ ] Needle Disposal

>

> I would appreciate hearing how any of you handle the disposal of

your

> needles from Enbrel, etc. I have quite a collection, & everyone I

> contact tells me to contact someone else. I live in the Houston

area,

> so there should be an easy answer.

> Thanks for any suggestions!

> Judy

>

>

[Guest guest]

I got a sharps container from Enbrel. You can also get them at the

pharmacy (they usually sell them for diabetics). You doctor should be

willing to dispose them for you once your container is full. I am wary

of throwing anything like that in the trash myself. You never know

whose going to go through it.

[Guest guest]

In some areas you can also drop full containers off at the ER of your local

hospital.  linda

From: megan_hartman <megan_hartman@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Needle Disposal

Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 8:56 AM

I got a sharps container from Enbrel. You can also get them at the

pharmacy (they usually sell them for diabetics). You doctor should be

willing to dispose them for you once your container is full. I am wary

of throwing anything like that in the trash myself. You never know

whose going to go through it.

[Guest guest]

Hi Barb I never see this I will look for this when I do my next shot. Some

times I will post and lose it don't know why it happens every where so I am so

sick of re typing posts I do them in my Email and then cut and paste them at the

forums. When ever I post I check later to see if it went through. When I find

one that did not work I re cut and paste it.

So on my tool bar I will have 3 to 4 Emails sitting there once I see the post

went through I delete the Email.

Most of the time when one dose not get through I get an error message.

Co-Moderator

Phil

> From: Barb <baba@...>

> Subject: Needle Disposal

>

> Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 10:56 AM

> Just noticed the wrapper says " do not

> reshield used needles. "   So you're not supposed to put

> the cap back on when you throw it in the Sharps box? 

> Anyone know why?  Anyone know what they do with all the

> old needles/syringes? Just curious.

>

> Barb

>

>

> P.S.  I answered a post Friday night and it has still

> not shown up today (Sunday).  Wonder if this one will.

>

>

>

>

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>

>

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The sharps are incinerated in a high temp furnace. The plastic burns away

and the metal is melted to slag. Yes you are NOT supposed to recap

needles. This is a safety step that is part of the Blood Borne pathogens

procedures. Many people have been stuck by recapping needles so the sharps

box is supposed to be thick enough to prevent needle sticks. Just drop them

in.

I have also had insulin needles poke through the caps and they are painful

when they go into your fingers... just drop 'em in don't worry about them.

When done take your needles to your local hospital, EMS or Fire station and

often they will take the sharps container for you.

> Just noticed the wrapper says " do not

> > reshield used needles. " So you're not supposed to put

> > the cap back on when you throw it in the Sharps box?

> > Anyone know why? Anyone know what they do with all the

> > old needles/syringes? Just curious.

> >

> > Barb

>

[Guest guest]

The no recapping thing is mainly for a clinical setting. You don't want to

get poked with someone else's needle and you sure don't want to mistake a

recapped used needle for a new one and inject someone else with it..

Your home, it your germs, you can do whatever you want with them. Just

don't throw then in the trash so the trash man gets poked. I save some,

they're handy in the work shop for injecting glue or such as that.

Sometimes I cut the needle end completely off and use them (after rinsing)

for feeding baby birds etc. Works good. Brett

Re: Needle Disposal

> The sharps are incinerated in a high temp furnace. The plastic burns away

> and the metal is melted to slag. Yes you are NOT supposed to recap

> needles. This is a safety step that is part of the Blood Borne pathogens

> procedures. Many people have been stuck by recapping needles so the

> sharps

> box is supposed to be thick enough to prevent needle sticks. Just drop

> them

> in.

>

> I have also had insulin needles poke through the caps and they are painful

> when they go into your fingers... just drop 'em in don't worry about them.

> When done take your needles to your local hospital, EMS or Fire station

> and

> often they will take the sharps container for you.

>

>

>

>> Just noticed the wrapper says " do not

>> > reshield used needles. " So you're not supposed to put

>> > the cap back on when you throw it in the Sharps box?

>> > Anyone know why? Anyone know what they do with all the

>> > old needles/syringes? Just curious.

>> >

>> > Barb

>>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Brett what kind of birds do you raise or hand feed. I use to do this with my

Cockitels and use to own a African Gray. I love birds but it's a lot of work to

care for them the right way.

Co-Moderator

Phil

> From: Brett Savage <brshop@...>

> Subject: Re: Needle Disposal

>

> Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 2:41 AM

> The no recapping thing is mainly for

> a clinical setting.  You don't want to

> get poked with someone else's needle and you sure don't

> want to mistake a

> recapped used needle for a new one and inject someone else

> with it..

>     Your home, it your germs, you can do whatever

> you want with them.  Just

> don't throw then in the trash so the trash man gets

> poked.  I save some,

> they're handy in the work shop for injecting glue or such

> as that.

> Sometimes I cut the needle end completely off and use them

> (after rinsing)

> for feeding baby birds etc.  Works good.  Brett

> Re: Needle Disposal

>

>

> > The sharps are incinerated in a high temp

> furnace.  The plastic burns away

> > and the metal is melted to slag.  Yes you are NOT

> supposed to recap

> > needles.  This is a safety step that is part of

> the Blood Borne pathogens

> > procedures.   Many people have been

> stuck by recapping needles so the

> > sharps

> > box is supposed to be thick enough to prevent needle

> sticks.  Just drop

> > them

> > in.

> >

> > I have also had insulin needles poke through the caps

> and they are painful

> > when they go into your fingers... just drop 'em in

> don't worry about them.

> > When done take your needles to your local hospital,

> EMS or Fire station

> > and

> > often they will take the sharps container for you.

> >

> >

> >

> >> Just noticed the wrapper says " do not

> >> > reshield used needles. "   So you're not

> supposed to put

> >> > the cap back on when you throw it in the

> Sharps box?

> >> > Anyone know why?  Anyone know what they

> do with all the

> >> > old needles/syringes? Just curious.

> >> >

> >> > Barb

> >>

> >

> >

> >