Household Sharps Waste: Properly dispose of your household needles, diabetic lancets, and syringes.

• Step 1 - Contain your sharps in a sharps container or other hard plastic container, such as a laundry detergent bottle or mouth wash bottle. Close the container.
• Step 2 - Dispose of your container at a local household sharps collection site, or use a mailable sharps container system and bring it to your local mail place to be sent out for disposal.

Household Medicine Waste: Properly dispose of your household's unused medicines & pills.

• Option 1 - Bring your medicines to a local collection site or take back event. You can find the medicine collection site that is nearest to you by using Google’s special locator tool or the DEA’s locator tool.
• Option 2 - Some medicines can and should be flushed down the sink or toilet. Read the FDA’s information on flushing medicines.