Sharps Waste Disposal - Butte County, CA
Medical Sharps Waste Disposal Services & Companies near Butte County
Northern Waste Services
Location – 920 American Way, Paradise, CA Zip code 95969
Phone. 530 876 3340
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NRC Environmental Services Inc
Location – 1111 Marauder Street Chico, California Zip code 95973
Phone. 530 343 5488
Sharps are broken glass, needles, syringes, scalpel blades, lancets or metal shards. It’s important to properly dispose of sharps, so when you dispose these items, you must concern to prevent harm or injury to the handlers carefully. Here are some tips for dispose your used sharps safely:
· You must to place sharps into a sharps container or a hard plastic container with a secure lid because your used sharps may be harm or injury to the handlers. You can buy a sharps container at any drugstore, department store, pharmacies, or online medical supply companies.
· During disposal your used sharps or whenever, do not touch your used sharps especially used needles.
· Do not try to empty and sterilize sharps containers by hand because that increases risk of getting a needle stick.
· You must to approve that “biohazard material is contained in the package” on your sharps containers when you mail it through the postal service.
· Do not discard medical sharps in normal trash streams because medical sharps be harmful to disposal workers or people who handles the trash stream.