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The Eureka! Sharps
Disposal Program was developed to:
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Help you properly dispose
of your needles and lancets
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Provide an environmentally
safe option for disposing of sharps
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Prevent injury to human
and animals
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Keep Sharps out of
household trash and recycling bins
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Provide the public with
more collections sites for home-generated needles and lancets
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Prevent the spread of
infectious disease
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Remove used needles from
circulation and prevent the sharing of needles
**It is important to
remember that Sharps are only a problem when they are not handled
properly**
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 Sharps
are needles and lancets that you use at home to inject yourself, your child
or your pet with medicine. Needles that are not thrown away properly
are dangerous because used needles sometimes injure innocent people.
Until now there has not been an easy solution to this problem. Eureka!
Sharps Disposal is a program that provides small household containers,
called Sharps containers, that hold your used needles and lancets, and
collection kiosks located throughout your community for you to safely throw
away your full Sharps containers.
Eureka! Sharps Disposal Sites
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Simple Rules to dispose
Sharps the right way!
- DO use a container that is
puncture resistant and not see through
- DO keep containers in area that
are child and animal proof
- DON'T put Sharps in soda cans
or bottles, juice bottles, glass containers or milk cartons
- DON'T put Sharps containers in
your recycling bin.
- DON'T flush needles down the
toilet
- DON'T throw loose needles or
lancets into the recycling bin trash or Eureka! Kiosk
- DON'T empty Sharps containers
into the Eureka! Kiosk. Throw away the full container
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