The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Rosemary on February 20, 2014, 06:47:02 pm
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How do folk get rid of clinical waste - used syringes, needles, bottles of vaccines etc? I have a sharps box which will take a long time to fill but at some point I'll have to dispose of the contents.
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You could take it back to the vet assuming you bought them from the vet in the first place.
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Some I did, some I didn't. Our vet will take it and charge for disposal if they didn't supply.
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Just dump them in any hospital or GP surgery - they will by obligation dispose of them with their own waste - syringes, swabs, limbs etc
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Once the sharps bin is sealed how will the vet know they haven't supplied everything in it? I don't think a GP surgery or hospital would take clinical waste from animals so vet may be only possibility.
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I do micro chipping so have a sharps box, my micro chip needles and the needles from the any of the animals all go into the box.
I had a word with the vet and he says when the box is full just take it in and they will dispose of it with their stuff.
I was told when I did the micro chipping course that if you take your sharps box to any drug related drop in centre without mentioning what is in there they will dispose of it and give you fresh needles and box :-\ I don't think I would have the courage to try that though ::)
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I was told when I did the micro chipping course that if you take your sharps box to any drug related drop in centre without mentioning what is in there they will dispose of it and give you fresh needles and box :-\ I don't think I would have the courage to try that though ::)
Me neither - or dropping it and running at the local health centre ::)
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I ask mum's district nurses very sweetly if I can put my needles in their sharps boxes and then I give them some handmade bath goodies in return.
our vet said to just take used needles etc and they will dispose of them for us...if you have loads of animals, they offered a sharps box of our own which they then dispose of too (this was 4 yrs ago and by now they have probably found a way to make money out of this though :-\ )
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In the past, I got a sharps container from my health centre and handed it in closed at the reception,
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Mine goes to doctors surgery no problem
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I buy sharps box from vets and price includes disposal. Think its about £7-8 for a 7 litre one. Unused drugs should in theory go in a doop bin, if taking to a vets dont he surprised if you are charged as doop is expensive to get rid of.
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What's a doop bin?
I have a sharps container in which I just put needles. The first was tiny and took several years to fill. The vet made a small charge to get rid of it. Now I have a larger one and I think it will outlive me. Empty syringes I put in the household waste. I've a feeling empty bottles go in there too although I tend to keep them for ages in case of inspections.
Disposal of farm sharps doesn't seem to be covered by any formal regs, or none that I've heard of, although it certainly should be.
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I have a sharps box for my glucose meter needles and put needles and syringes that I've used on the goats in with them. It just goes back to my GP surgery.
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Why do people throw away syringes, wash out and use again.
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Why do people throw away syringes, wash out and use again.
I've thrown them away up till now...is there a way of ensuring they are really clean? I'm just nervous of them still not being 100%, I know I could stick them in milton etc but I'd be worried (I do like the idea of saving cash though ;D )
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Why do people throw away syringes, wash out and use again.
I've thrown them away up till now...is there a way of ensuring they are really clean? I'm just nervous of them still not being 100%, I know I could stick them in milton etc but I'd be worried (I do like the idea of saving cash though ;D )
It really depend son what meds you have used in the syringe 1st time. Thick AB's would be very difficult to wash out, but if you take your vaccinations/vit B etc syringe and rinse straight away it will be possible to clean out. I have often done a quick wash and once I have a few together I just boil them in water for 10 minutes. A 70deg dishwasher cycle also sterilises (I was told that when baby bottles were on the agenda).
But I have found that the once-a-time syringes I get from the vets loose their scales almost immediately once you wash them afterwards....
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I find that after a few uses the black rubber seals start sticking too. I don't use many syringes, and they're very cheap, so I only reuse them for several sheep if I am treating them together, but I don't stock them up in a manky cupboard somewhere. I do sometimes reuse them for other things though, such as measuring out liquid dyes
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I used to put any sharps and syringes from the animals into our wood burner when it was well hot . Nothing recognisable ever came out in the ash.
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A doop bin is for leftover drugs eg out of date bottles of antibiotic or leftover vaccine :). Vets have them dont know about doctors though
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Oh my god please tell me you are not serious about reusing syringes! !!!!
1- they will not be sterile so run a very big risk of abscess etc
2- many many different medicines cling to and permeate into the plastic so no amount of washing will remove ot and mixing drugs is a big risk such as vaccine and antibiotics.
3- if you inject any water in to antibiotic bottle such as synulox it will make the sediment gloopy and lumpy so when mixed not all the antibiotic is mixed so not the right strength.
Seriously its not the dark ages of boiling glass syringes and reusing! !!!
Personally I think it's a major problem DON'T DO IT! Syringes and needles are single use only for a reason!!!
Farmers have the privilege to hold medicines and syringes etc, its people who abuse it by giving antibiotics as they like without good reason and not for an appropriate course and who jab several animals with tbe the same needle etc who make it easy for the anti people having a case for that privilege to be taken away and it be vet only.
Rant over