DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
- smeee
- Posts: 617
- Joined: 02 Jun 2006, 10:00
- Job Title: Lab Technician
- School: LaSalle Catholic College
- Suburb: Bankstown
- State/Location: NSW
DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I have been asked about the correct disposal of sharps.
How do you get rid of your yellow container when it is full ?
How do you get rid of your yellow container when it is full ?
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I give mine to the district health nurse when they do the vaccination injections.
- Loopy
- Posts: 592
- Joined: 08 Jun 2006, 10:00
- School: Mater Dei Catholic College
- Suburb: Wagga Wagga
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Or ask your local hospital. I'd be surprised if they didn't help.
Lou.
PS I'm jealous of your impending trip to NZ, want lotsa pictures and infor from the conference K?
Lou.
PS I'm jealous of your impending trip to NZ, want lotsa pictures and infor from the conference K?
- matchstick
- Posts: 134
- Joined: 27 Feb 2009, 09:07
- Job Title: School Admin.Assistant
- School: Strathfield South Public School
- Suburb: Strathfield
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
hi
the company that collects the lady sanatary bins collects my yellow bin every collecton,wether it is empty or full.Its part of their contract! Maybe its worth looking into.......
Matchstick
the company that collects the lady sanatary bins collects my yellow bin every collecton,wether it is empty or full.Its part of their contract! Maybe its worth looking into.......
Matchstick
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Hi
Rang a local chemist yesterday and they said they would take the sharps containers. They will also sell me a new one for $6! Can you get them elsewhere and are they any cheaper?
Regards
Sue G
Rang a local chemist yesterday and they said they would take the sharps containers. They will also sell me a new one for $6! Can you get them elsewhere and are they any cheaper?
Regards
Sue G
-
- Posts: 226
- Joined: 22 Mar 2007, 10:00
- Job Title: Labbie
- School: Goulburn High School
- Suburb: Goulburn
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Excuse my ignorance but why do you have a sharps bin in science.
- Loopy
- Posts: 592
- Joined: 08 Jun 2006, 10:00
- School: Mater Dei Catholic College
- Suburb: Wagga Wagga
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I use mine for scalpel blades.
Lou.
Lou.
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I use mine in the prep. room for scalpel blades, the ones in the labs are for display only the kids can get the blades out if they try hard enough. So everything is returned to me for disposal.
- Labbie
- Posts: 3243
- Joined: 28 Nov 2006, 10:00
- Job Title: Retired
- Suburb: At Home
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Yes Scapel blades, old rusty nails, in fact any thing sharp.
Regards Labbie
Lab Manager/Lab Tech, mind reading etc etc
Now retired
Lab Manager/Lab Tech, mind reading etc etc
Now retired
- Kathryn
- Posts: 390
- Joined: 01 Jun 2006, 10:00
- Job Title: Lab Technician
- School: Cedars Christian College
- Suburb: Farmborough Hts, Wollongong
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Being only a school school, we don't go through many sharps. So I just wrap any in layers of newspaper and put them in the bin
Kathryn
Kathryn
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I got one many years ago, thinking that I could put broken glass in it. But it was difficult and dangerous to put the glass in the top with the plastic "fingers". Easier to wrap it up in newspaper.
-
- Posts: 1795
- Joined: 20 Mar 2007, 10:00
- Job Title: Lab Assistant
- Suburb: Tamworth
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Why don't you just have a glass bin for your broken glass? I have a kitchen bin with a swinging lid for my glass. It has a "Broken Glass Only" sign on it (although i found a ham sandwich in it the other day!!).
Our sharps container is less than 1/4 full and I've been here nearly 3 years and it was already started when i got here. We mainly use it for scalpel blades.
Our sharps container is less than 1/4 full and I've been here nearly 3 years and it was already started when i got here. We mainly use it for scalpel blades.
- vlclabbie
- Posts: 367
- Joined: 21 Apr 2009, 11:22
- Job Title: Lab Chick
- Suburb: Albury
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Ohhhh I thought we all HAD to have a sharps disposal yellow bin? I do & ours takes a LONG LONG time to fill up too. Well worth the money - no potential cut fingers! I haven't had to empty it yet since I began work so I'm not sure what we do with it yet... will ask!
We also have a broken glass bucket that gets emptied into a recycle glass container.
Kelli
We also have a broken glass bucket that gets emptied into a recycle glass container.
Kelli
-
- Posts: 1795
- Joined: 20 Mar 2007, 10:00
- Job Title: Lab Assistant
- Suburb: Tamworth
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I've read somewhere (probably here on chemtalk) that the glass we use here in the labs is not recyclable because of the processes used in making it to be so highly heat resistant.
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
Yeah your right you can only recycle soda glass no pyrex and alike
- Lyn
- Posts: 706
- Joined: 16 May 2006, 10:00
- Job Title: Lab Assistant (Technician)
- School: St. John's Catholic College
- Suburb: Darwin
- State/Location: NT
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I have a bucket with lid in each prep room for broken glass. They are labelled as "broken glass bin". When they are full I transfer the broken glass into a box which is taped securely and has broken glass written over every surface with texta. This is then disposed of in the industrial bin. For the disposal of scalpel blades I have small blue containers which remove and store used scalpel blades. When these blue containers are full I put them with the broken glass for disposal. The used single edge blades are also put in the glass bin for disposal.
Lyn.
Lyn.
- fibreweb
- Posts: 620
- Joined: 20 Jul 2006, 10:00
- School: Oxley High School
- Suburb: Tamworth
- State/Location: NSW
Re: DISPOSAL OF SHARPS
I grab any solid box that stores come in that is about 30cm square. I line it with a garbage bag and tape down the sides labelling it BROKEN GLASS. There is one of these in each of my 3 prep rooms.
When it is full I tie up the bag, close the top back up and severely tape it up and put it straight into the dumpster. To me it saves rehandling and tipping the glass from a bucket into something else.
I think I just taped up my yellow sharps container when it was full and added it to the sharps box. It's not as if it's contaminated waste like from a hospital with the risk of AIDS or Hep B or C that needs to be specially disposed of.
Wendy ( who is enjoying her holidays but is that addicted to Chemtalk she still logs on from home to see what is going on)
When it is full I tie up the bag, close the top back up and severely tape it up and put it straight into the dumpster. To me it saves rehandling and tipping the glass from a bucket into something else.
I think I just taped up my yellow sharps container when it was full and added it to the sharps box. It's not as if it's contaminated waste like from a hospital with the risk of AIDS or Hep B or C that needs to be specially disposed of.
Wendy ( who is enjoying her holidays but is that addicted to Chemtalk she still logs on from home to see what is going on)