Sharps...

[Cozzer]

Rang my local chemist...
"Do you have a sharps box, please?"
"Do you have some sharps?"
The sarcastic side of me wanted to say "No, of course not. I'm simply asking for something to do and kill some time..."
"Yes. Scalpel blades, some double-sided razor blades and a few Maped mount cutter blades..."
"No, we don't. But your GP will..."
The response was along the lines of "Computer says no...."

Rang the GP.
Yes, they have a sharps box. No, I can't have use of it. It's only for the medical staff who work there.
"Right...any idea what I'm supposed to do with them?"
"You could try the local chemist..."
"Have done. They suggested you..."
"Well, if you place them in your own sharps box, we could take them for you...as long as your box fits inside ours...."
"Right....what size is yours?"
"I've no idea. I've never actually seen it or use it, because I'm just the receptionist and don't use anything medical...."

 

[Sideways]

I have two plastic tubes for used scalpel blades
"Sharps" have lost their new edge but have life left for rough jobs
"Blunts" will stick you but are otherwise trashed.

I think my dilemma will be like yours. Chemists don't have a box any more and the surgery is so agonisingly bureaucratic over everything, so I wouldn't waste my breath or sanity.

 

[Cozzer]

I have two plastic tubes for used scalpel blades
"Sharps" have lost their new edge but have life left for rough jobs
"Blunts" will stick you but are otherwise trashed.

I think my dilemma will be like yours. Chemists don't have a box any more and the surgery is so agonisingly bureaucratic over everything, so I wouldn't waste my breath or sanity.

Indeed. Sanity...
I keep hearing myself saying that the world's gone mad!
In another post on here I wrote about witnessing some flytippers, active on Christmas Eve evening.
We're told "do this, do that", but there was no point in trying anybody on the Council line, so chose 101 instead.
The cops couldn't wait to say that it was "nothing to do with them", until I told them that one of the tippers had dropped his mobile before they shot off.
Slight change of attitude, and the phone was indeed collected between Xmas and New Year.
The cops couldn't "open" the phone. The council refuge boys wouldn't be able to either. It would "break the law"...
I suggested that they could wander around any marketplace and find someone to unlock it for a "fiver"....no, they couldn't do that.

I chased progress last week, a month after the event.
The council people still hadn't got the phone. They'd been told it was passworded, but nobody had actually tried. There was a phone number and email address of someone sharpied on the phone cover...they weren't aware of that. All the villain's contacts, good or bad, lay within. For all they and I know, maybe the phone just needs charging, and all might be revealed. This is a whole month after the offence....

For all I know, the **** might have flytipped a dozen times since losing his phone...but "we" haven't the right to inspect his phone because it would be "against the law".

But.... don't forget, if you see anything suspicious, report it.
Just don't expect anything to be actually done....

 

[Cabinetman]

I’ve always just stuck a bit of tape over the edge and put them in metal recycling. Even taped up I wouldn’t just put them in a waste bag.

 

[Phil Craddock]

Rang my local chemist...
"Do you have a sharps box, please?"
"Do you have some sharps?"
The sarcastic side of me wanted to say "No, of course not. I'm simply asking for something to do and kill some time..."
"Yes. Scalpel blades, some double-sided razor blades and a few Maped mount cutter blades..."
"No, we don't. But your GP will..."
The response was along the lines of "Computer says no...."

Rang the GP.
Yes, they have a sharps box. No, I can't have use of it. It's only for the medical staff who work there.
"Right...any idea what I'm supposed to do with them?"
"You could try the local chemist..."
"Have done. They suggested you..."
"Well, if you place them in your own sharps box, we could take them for you...as long as your box fits inside ours...."
"Right....what size is yours?"
"I've no idea. I've never actually seen it or use it, because I'm just the receptionist and don't use anything medical...."

I get mine from Boots but I agree that some chemists are not interested in selling them.

I'm diabetic and inject every day, so I have a lot of disposable needles to get rid of but the chemist who supplies these needles and my insulin will not provide a sharps box!

 

[Blackswanwood]

Double sided razor blades, workshop scalpel blades, Stanley knife blades etc just go in a tin, when full it goes in the metal recycling and start a new tin. Not sure there is any need to involve a chemist or GP with non-clinical sharp waste.

 

[Cozzer]

Double sided razor blades, workshop scalpel blades, Stanley knife blades etc just go in a tin, when full it goes in the metal recycling and start a new tin. Not sure there is any need to involve a chemist or GP with non-clinical sharp waste.

You have a metal recycling bin?

Or are you suggesting I find a scrap yard who'll take them?

 

[Blackswanwood]

You have a metal recycling bin?

Or are you suggesting I find a scrap yard who'll take them?

We do have a council supplied recycling bin for metal cans etc

The council tip (or household waste and recycling centre if you are posh!) has a skip for waste metal.

 

[Jacob]

You have a metal recycling bin?

Empty sardine tin will do. You put that in your recycling bin when it's full.

 

[Chief Sawdust Maker]

Empty 500ml water bottle cut a slit in the neck fill with blades when full tape over then as Blackswanwood says drop in your green bin