Disposing of sharps on the road??
 

I thought I remembered seeing a Travel Health forum, but when I looked for it, I couldn't find it, so either its gone or I'm crazy.
My brother has begun weekly infusions of medicine. Next week, we'll be out of town, and he doesn't want to carry his sharps container with him. Does anyone have any ideas of what to do with his sharps and other bio-trash? The best idea I came up with was to take them to a doctor's office or hospital, and ask them to take them (it's not a lot, maybe a ziploc baggie full). I was just wondering if anyone had any other ideas, or has had success with this.
thanks
sammy

Some bathrooms (esp. airport bathrooms) have medical waste/sharps containers.

CVS and I'm sure others make single use disposable units for $2.80 for four of them. I'm fairly certain if you search you can find them in bulk, one of the people I know who uses them mentioned she buys them in bulk when she travels for her daily injections

http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/cvs/gatewa...?prodid=420997

If by any chance he's in New York State on his travels, their full listing of collection sites is here

http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseas....htm#directory

I don't know if other states maintain such a listing or not.

By law in NY, all hospitals and nursing homes have to accept sharps from the public.

If you don't care about recycling the waste or being eco-friendly, you can usually just dispose of the waste in the regular trash. In most states, the instructions are the following, http://www.bddiabetes.com/us/main.aspx?cat=2&id=3284

For some states, there are additional disposal requirements.

Also, you could use the Sharps By Mail service where you can mail in your container into a disposal center.

I would assume that all hospitals or doctors offices will take your needles. If not, you can find places that definitely will through The Coalition for Safe Community Needle Disposal.
http://www.safeneedledisposal.org/dispcenters.html

If disposing as regular trash, please secure it and label it so those poor souls who rummage through trash for soda cans won't accidentally get stabbed by it. Otherwise, maybe airport bathrooms? You know, I don't really know...

Thanks for all the replies! I guess we'll go with the thing from CVS, that seems easiest...

call a local pharmacy?
 

In Silicon Valley some of my local pharmacies have sharps disposal. Call a few at your destination and ask.

I've seen sharps disposal places in most airport bathrooms.

US carriers have sharps containers on board. If you need one inflight, just ask the flight attendant. We'll give it to you to dispose of the needle, and then hand it off at the arrival city for proper disposal.