If you don’t have a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved sharps disposal container, you can make your own with a household container, such as an empty laundry detergent bottle.

All metal sharps must be separated from other wastes and placed into puncture proof, non-leaking containers such as biohazard sharps containers (best option), rigid plastic containers, metal ...

Examples include empty laundry detergent bottles with screw-on lids. You can also purchase a sharps disposable container from a pharmacy. Label the empty container, “Do not recycle: Household ...

If you use injectables as a form of medication or for any other reason, it can be hard to know how to dispose of your used ...