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  1. I put mine, the broken and the used, into an empty tablet container, and in all my longarming years, I have only ever filled one, and this went into the bin, with the lid on, so should be fairly safe I think.

  2. I have a plastic toothpick container in my sewing room that I put all the bent pins and broken needles into and when that gets full I look for a small glass jar with a lid and transfer them to that before putting in the garbage. Or if I happen to have emptied a face cream jar I’ll use that to dispose of them.

  3. Once the lid goes on those yellow sharps bins, they are never opened again, just incinerated. So, sad to say, no one will ever know your trash is more interesting than diabetic needles. 🙂 In the labs they end up with far worse in them than a few sewing needles anyway. Since your sharps are going into community waste, it is a great idea to contain them. Nearly done on your 31 days!

  4. Yes, I feel the same about sharp things in rubbish. I use whatever I can find, small minty tins, my little dog used to have regular pills so the empty pill boxes are still going, cocktail stick bottles etc….
    Hugz

  5. I also use an empty toothpick container – I can just rotate the lid to put one in, then close it again. At work we use pill pottles for all our needles, etc. Before I emptied and started using my toothpick container I used to put my used sharps in the plastic case the cutting blades come in (labelled so I didn’t get muddled!) but it didn’t store very many and not as ‘safe’ to open up ….. they could fall out more easily.

  6. Hi Joy, I like your idea of putting them in a little jar. I was just putting them into a piece of paper and throwing in the waste basket to go in the trash. Maybe not such a good idea. I like yours better! Nancy

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