Sharps

It is illegal to throw your home generate sharps into your garbage or recycling containers!

Home-generated sharps include hypodermic needles, pen needles, intravenous needles, lancets, and other devices that are used to penetrate the skin for the delivery of medications that you use in your home.

To ensure compliance with the new law, the City recommends that customers with home-generated sharps use one of the following disposal methods:

• Take it Back: Check with the hospital, clinic or pharmacy where you acquired a sharps device to see if it can be returned.
• Mail it Back: A convenient and confidential way of properly disposing your sharps. Sharps disposal services approved by the California Department of Health can be found at: http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/HHW/Sharps
• Take it to a Household Hazardous Waste Facility (HHW): The following HHWs in the region will accept home-generated sharps.

Sacramento Recycling and Transfer Station
8491 Fruitridge Rd. (916) 808-5454

North Area Recovery Station
4450 Roseville Rd. (916) 875-5555

This is a state law.  More information regarding Sharps Waste can be found through the California Integrated Waste Management Board