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Residents
Residents of San Joaquin County can utilize the following resources to
properly dispose of medical sharps:
To safely dispose
of your used sharps, place them in a biohazard sharps container and contact
your physician, clinic, or local pharmacy, and ask if they have a sharps
take-back program for their customers. A list of sharps mail-back
services is also available from the California Department of Public Health:
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/medicalwaste/Pages/MailBackSharps.aspx.
Home-generated medical
sharps may also be taken to the HHW Facility for proper disposal. To
protect facility technicians from needle-stick injuries, all sharps must be
delivered in a sealed biohazard sharps container.
Sharps containers for residential use can
be picked up free of charge at the HHW Facility.
Click the HHW link below for more information.
Businesses
Businesses can utilize the following resources to properly
dispose of medical sharps:
Small businesses can dispose of medications at the San Joaquin County
Household Hazardous Waste Facility (HHW) for a small fee. Conditions
apply, for details click the Business HHW link or CESQG Brochure link below.For more resources visit
http://www.safeneedledisposal.org
or call the Coalition for Safe Community Needle Disposal at 1-800-643-1643.
For more information on medical waste call the California Department of
Public Health at (916) 449-5671.
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