morgue

[malocchio]

O.K. the blade bank gets full.you have done a good job not loading up precious land with used 35 cent toxic plastic throw away 2 shave razors made in tijuana...now...how do you recycle your blades? I am fortunate,being a batchelor I am lucky to have a few nurses I know recycle my blades in the "sharps" blade container at the hospitals where they work..I hope the hospital does the right thing with them..but how about you guys ? what do you do with your blade morgue inventory??

 

[dpm802]

what do you do with your blade morgue inventory??

There's a creepy old guy up the street who offers to buy my used blades for more than I paid for 'em new. Keeps muttering something under his breath about "Gonna get those trick-or-treaters this year."

 

[dpm802]

There's a creepy old guy up the street who offers to buy my used blades for more than I paid for 'em new. Keeps muttering something under his breath about "Gonna get those trick-or-treaters this year."

Seriously, though ... I guess I'll just toss 'em in the trash, recycle with the aluminum cans.

After two years of wet-shaving, my first blade-bank is almost full. Time to get another one, but I haven't decided what type, or maybe make my own this time.

Even if I just keep until I die, the full bank doesn't take up much room. Then, it will be a problem for the Executor of My Estate to solve.

Besides, they make a satisfying "thunka-thunka" sound when I shake the can back and forth, to remind of all the fun I've been having since I started my wet-shaving odyssey.

 

[Stubblefield]

Sharps container --> Incinerator. Works for me, and I'll only have to do it once.

 

[DavyRay]

The amount of steel involved is trivial. I don't think this is a major recycling deal.

However, it is an easily solved problem. If your community has recycling for tin cans, you are all set. Those cans are steel, with a flash of tin plating. Just put your used blades in a tin can, flatten the can to contain the blades, and you are done. You may have to do this once a decade, longer if you use a large tin can.

 

[djh]

My bank is a relatively large coffee can. Seeing as I shave with a straight a lot of the time, there will probably be a new and environmentally friendlier way to deal with used blades by the time I fill the bank.
Otherwise, they will go in the steel recycling...

 

[huntmol]

My blade bank is a large peanut butter jar, I'm not sure if there are enough shaves left in my lifetime to fill it up

 

[polaar]

My bank is the wall behind my medicine cabinet!

 

[ouch]

There's a creepy old guy up the street who offers to buy my used blades for more than I paid for 'em new. Keeps muttering something under his breath about "Gonna get those trick-or-treaters this year."

That one never gets old.

 

[FL shaver]

Ferrous metal is recovered at my local incinerator. I toss my old blades in the garbage in the wrapping the new blade comes out of. I wonder if it just winds up in the landfill.... Have to look into that. I just don't want to wind up on "Hoarders."

EDIT: My county solid waste site says to get a sharps container from a pharmacy, health department location, or fire department, and to turn it in at a health department location.

 

[rjt65]

hmmm newbie trying to decide what to use as a blade bank... we have recycling so guess i can bank em up, than put into the recycle bin....

hmmm coffee cans, PB jar, what else are peeps using to collect their blades?

good thread, thanks

 

[Rudy Vey]

Being diabetic, I have sharps container in which I put my blades as well as my used testing stuff (lancets and strips). Takes a few year to fill up, though.

 

[pauls51]

I've been using a small tin blade dispenser for the past year and it still practically empty!!!

 

[jwcarlson]

I suppose I could fire up my forge when I have enough and burn them?

 

[Hreafn]

I use a pint yogurt tub i dont think i will ever fill it up

 

[johnmrson]

Mine get emptied into an empty steel can and the top squashed and bend over so none can fall out. It them goes out into the recyling bin.

 

[Jaymo]

I suppose I could fire up my forge when I have enough and burn them?

Never thought about that. Guess I could faggot weld them together and make a useful chunk of steel.
Faggot welding is a blacksmithing term, for those who don't know and may get offended.
Then, I'd use that hunk of steel to make blade to replace the broken one in one of my dad's pocketknives.
But that's just me.


BTW, My blade bank is a 30 yr old allspice can with a plastic flip top. It'll probably hold a 500 blades.

 

[Rocketeer]

...how do you recycle your blades?

Mine is made from a 4oz can whose top has been reseated and sealed, with a blade slot cut in the top side of the can. When full, it goes into the recycle bin.

 

[superspot]

I save mine for candy apples on Halloween.

 

[superspot]

Just Kiddin !

My wife is a nurse and she takes care of them.