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Needle and Sharps Disposal
Overview
Why to Dispose Properly:
- It’s the law! It is illegal to knowingly toss sharps in trash, recycling, or green waste containers.
- It protects people from needle sticks, particularly janitorial, pest control, groundskeeping, waste management workers, children, and pets. It also prevents people and businesses from enduring the various hardships that may result.
How to Dispose of your Sharps:
- Purchase an FDA-approved sharps container or pick up a free container from the Public Works Department at City Hall* or one of the sharps drop-off locations listed below (City staff recommend calling ahead before visiting Conejo Valley Medical Group or Los Robles Hospital to ensure container availability)
- Drop off the sharps container at one of the approved locations listed on the right hand side.
- Do not attempt to remove, bend, break, or recap the needle.
- For safety reasons, sharps will NOT be accepted in liquid detergent bottles, bleach bottles, coffee cans, glass containers, milk jugs, soda bottles, etc.
*Do not bring used sharps to City Hall.
SHARPS Mail-back
Safely dispose of used sharps from home by ordering a free mail-back Package here.
What to Dispose:
- Home-generated medical sharps and needles
- Hypodermic needles
- Intravenous needles
- Syringes
- Auto-injectors e.g. EpiPen®
- Infusion sets
- Connection needles/sets
- Lancets
- Other devices that are used to penetrate the skin for the delivery of medications derived from a household (includes multifamily residence or household)
What’s Not Accepted at Sharps Drop-off Locations:
- Commercially generated medical sharps and needles
Other Medical Devices
For proper electronics disposal, battery-containing home medical devices such as Auvi-Q® auto-injectors, digital thermometers, and glucometers should be brought to the City's Household Hazardous Waste Facility.