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12-17-2007, 11:38 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Oregon
Posts: 8
| | | What to do with bio-hazard red container? I don't know what forum to post this in, but I hope it can be moved if this is the wrong forum. A month ago I had to go on insulin and I shoot a 4 or more shots a day. I bought this red bio-hazard container to put the empty done shots in, but now its full. My question is what in the world do I do with the red container that has 50 or more shots that are used with? Its full and I don't know how to dispose of it. | 
12-17-2007, 11:42 PM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 5,601
| | | Ask your doctor's office if they will take it. | 
12-18-2007, 12:52 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,667
| | | Look up to see if your garbage service will take it. Mine does. You just have to duct tape it closed...in fact, it doesn't have to be a bio-hazard container, it can just be an empty liquid laundry detergent container, with duct tape around it and marked "Insulin Syringes".
Also, most fire stations, local hospitals, some pharmacies, and doctor's offices will take them for you. | 
12-18-2007, 04:11 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Grove City Ohio
Posts: 2,116
| | | I put mine out with the trash. They only require that I set it on top of the garbage can, so they see it.
__________________ Jim Diagnosed April 1990 Pumping with the Clear 722 along with the CGMS
Last A1C 7.1 ( February 2008 ) Diabetes & Endocrinology Center Of Ohio Website Proud Fan Of NASCAR Nextel Cup Driver Jimmie Johnson, Lowes #48 the 2006 AND 2007 Nextel Cup Champion. The opinions expressed are mine alone and do not necessarily represent
those of my wife who runs our house and makes more important decisions
than I do | 
12-18-2007, 04:41 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 166
| | | Call your local hospital. Many take them to dispose off properly as community service.
JayP | 
12-18-2007, 04:50 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: illinois
Posts: 3,316
| | | call your trash pick up folks and your pharmacy. i use a laundry detergent bottle. when it's full,i'm supposed to double bag it and put it in the tras. no bio hazard label to keep the junkies out of it...... | 
12-18-2007, 05:21 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,831
| | | In Canada, perhaps not all parts because places like Manitoba are weird, but here the pharmacies take them. Return a full one and they give you an empty for free. |  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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