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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 347649" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>I believe it depends on your particular local council how and where you acquire and dispose of sharps bins. In some areas they can be collected and dropped off at your GP surgery or local chemists although in my area you have to phone the environmental health services (bin men) and they arrange a call back from a private firm who drop off a bin and when its full you phone them up and they arrange to collect it from you and drop off a replacement.</p><p></p><p>I used to have to leave mine on the doorstep overnight and it would be gone in the morning and a new one left for me, well I say "a new <strong>one</strong>" it was actually two or three at a time to save them the cost of collection I assume.</p><p></p><p>Oddly this thread has reminded me that I still have two bins, one full and one empty that I have had stashed behind my desktop PC case for the last 3 years since I stopped using insulin, I did arrange collection for them twice but both times they failed to collect them and I just forgot about them till I read this thread again. </p><p></p><p>As my wife works at a local hospital I think I'll give them to here to dispose of in the hospitals clinical waste area, I cant be bothered to phone the council services for a third time.</p><p></p><p>Here they are :roll: The pen gives an idea of the size of the ones issued here in my borough.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.acecreative.co.uk/diabetes/pics/sharps.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 347649, member: 19121"] I believe it depends on your particular local council how and where you acquire and dispose of sharps bins. In some areas they can be collected and dropped off at your GP surgery or local chemists although in my area you have to phone the environmental health services (bin men) and they arrange a call back from a private firm who drop off a bin and when its full you phone them up and they arrange to collect it from you and drop off a replacement. I used to have to leave mine on the doorstep overnight and it would be gone in the morning and a new one left for me, well I say "a new [b]one[/b]" it was actually two or three at a time to save them the cost of collection I assume. Oddly this thread has reminded me that I still have two bins, one full and one empty that I have had stashed behind my desktop PC case for the last 3 years since I stopped using insulin, I did arrange collection for them twice but both times they failed to collect them and I just forgot about them till I read this thread again. As my wife works at a local hospital I think I'll give them to here to dispose of in the hospitals clinical waste area, I cant be bothered to phone the council services for a third time. Here they are :roll: The pen gives an idea of the size of the ones issued here in my borough. [img]http://www.acecreative.co.uk/diabetes/pics/sharps.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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