Sid Bonkers
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- Location
- S.E.London, N.W.Kent borders
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
- Dislikes
- Customer helplines that use recorded menus that promise to put me through to the right person but never do - and being ill. Oh, and did I mention customer helplines :)
I think it depends on your local council as to how sharps bins are provided and collected. I was on insulin for the first year after diagnoses of T2 diabetes and was told I would get a sharps bin on prescription and could dispose of t at the doctors.
When I went to the doctors to arrange this I was told that I had to phone the local council and they would supply a sharps bin and arrange for its collection and drop off a replacement at the same time.
I phoned the council and they gave me another number of a private company who had the contract with my council, they dropped me off two boxes and I had to ring them when they were full and they would come round and swap the full ones for empty ones.
This worked well until I last phoned and said I had two bins to collect but did not require any more, this was 5 years ago now and I still have two used sharps boxes sitting behind my computer desktop tower!! Out of sight out of mind......
This thread has reminded me to call them again or perhaps I shall just give them to my wife to take to work as she works in a hospital and I'm guessing could dispose of them there somewhere, I shall ask her tonight, just thinking as im typing now!!
As for what to do if you run out or dont have a sharps bin I used to use an empty water bottle when I went away rather than take a bulky sharps bin with me, you could always do that and then when you get a new bin just tip/decant them into the new bin
When I went to the doctors to arrange this I was told that I had to phone the local council and they would supply a sharps bin and arrange for its collection and drop off a replacement at the same time.
I phoned the council and they gave me another number of a private company who had the contract with my council, they dropped me off two boxes and I had to ring them when they were full and they would come round and swap the full ones for empty ones.
This worked well until I last phoned and said I had two bins to collect but did not require any more, this was 5 years ago now and I still have two used sharps boxes sitting behind my computer desktop tower!! Out of sight out of mind......
This thread has reminded me to call them again or perhaps I shall just give them to my wife to take to work as she works in a hospital and I'm guessing could dispose of them there somewhere, I shall ask her tonight, just thinking as im typing now!!
As for what to do if you run out or dont have a sharps bin I used to use an empty water bottle when I went away rather than take a bulky sharps bin with me, you could always do that and then when you get a new bin just tip/decant them into the new bin
