I have filled my blade bank. Could you give some suggestions for safe disposal? Local pharmacy, presumably with a sharp
disposal receptacle, wouldn't take it.
disposal receptacle, wouldn't take it.
Disposing of full blade bank
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Personally I would put it in the metal recycling bin.
Try your local health department. Mine will take sharps in a non-sharps container, but it has to be sturdy plastic, like a coffee tub. If not, they will usually give out free sharps containers.
I put mine in in stack in tin foil, and Duck tape, then in trash.
See if your local recycling center will take it. If not, wrap your blade bank in several layers of duct tape and toss it in the regular trash. By then, you’ve tried hard enough.
Bang the opening shut with a hammer and toss it in the trash.
Recycled metal ..simple..
Our library bathrooms have a sharps container.
TRASH IT.
Recycling centers are rarely automated and have actual REAL PEOPLE picking through the stuff to separate it. They often hire people with intellectual deficiencies.
Recycling a few grams of metal isn’t worth injuring someone.
Sharps containers probably get incinerated along with other medical waste, I don’t know how incinerated waste is taken care of.
Recycling centers are rarely automated and have actual REAL PEOPLE picking through the stuff to separate it. They often hire people with intellectual deficiencies.
Recycling a few grams of metal isn’t worth injuring someone.
Sharps containers probably get incinerated along with other medical waste, I don’t know how incinerated waste is taken care of.
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Yup, seal it up and trash it. Where I am sharps of all types are not allowed in recycling for the reasons Frito Ray mentions above.
I unscrew the lid of my blade bank, empty the blades onto a long strip of duct tape & wrap them securely. They are then put in the trash.
It depends on the local recycling centre. Out here in Australia most recycling centres will not recycle razor blades of any type. If you can get them into a Sharps Container they will be incinerated in an industrial incinerator therefore they are not recycled. I do know that Gillette runs a recycle program called Terracycle. With this program they recycle cartridge blades and cartridge blade packaging. It doesn’t help us with our DE and SE blades but at least there are some types of blades and packaging being recycled which is a great thing.
Our local trash/waste site has a sharps disposal section for free; you could try searching your local area for "sharps disposal". I should add that I keep my used blades in a plastic pharmacy sharps container to help with disposal.
A common theme from some smart fellas
I use the Feather blade bank( I'm at work atm so here is a photo via Executive Shaving Co) 
When the previous one was full, I simply took a random heavy object & smashed the top of the blade bank. The slot thus deformed in a way that will prevent anything from going in or out. I then simply tossed it into the recycling bin. After of course I wrote something like "used razor blades" onto the tin. Little danger of some intellectually deficient person cutting themselves on one of the blades. This also has at least the theoretical possibility that it might actually be recycled.
When the previous one was full, I simply took a random heavy object & smashed the top of the blade bank. The slot thus deformed in a way that will prevent anything from going in or out. I then simply tossed it into the recycling bin. After of course I wrote something like "used razor blades" onto the tin. Little danger of some intellectually deficient person cutting themselves on one of the blades. This also has at least the theoretical possibility that it might actually be recycled.
+1! I put a strip of duct tape over the hole first.
