[[ERROR-TRANS]]¿Lugares donde desechar las agujas?

Good, I have several yellow containers full of needles, but I don't know where to look at what clean points, pharmacies or health centers they accept this.Is there any way to know?Removing go face -to -face and ask, of course.

Thank you so much!

Clean points and pharmacies sure not.

Health centers, I don't know.In mine they told me to put them in a boat and when it would be filled, threw it well closed at normal trash.

They have never given me containers.Ask in your health center, that if you give them, the same picks them up.

I suppose it depends on each autonomous community.In Catalonia there are more and more green points (deixalleries) that collect them and process them properly.

In this link he explains how to save them and what points can you take them: Link

I keep them in a 1.5L plastic bottle and when it is full I carry it and take it without problem.In my town, also if you take 15 things a year to the green point (which cannot be recycled in normal containers) the garbage collection tax bonuses you 20%, so the issue goes well.

When I started with this diabetes, I wondered the same as you.

No one knew where to get rid of the happy needles, neither the doctor, nor the pharmacist, nor the garbage collection company.

In my opinion they should be the pharmacies that supply them so gladly, but I took the first two boxes of needles that I used and told me very alarmed that "here not here."

Now I also think that the MCG should go somewhere where they can treat them (they have a needle and a stack), but I asked the diabetes nurse and told me that I had no idea what to do with this material.

In the end.....

In Madrid, what they told me in the Health Center, the Dexcom, which is stuck to the skin that has a pile is recycled like a battery.The thread with the containers to yellow (you will tell me if that is a container) and what carries the needle delivers it to the nurse with the review.

The needles, lancetas and strips, that the goals in a bottle of soda and normal trash, which seems to me a barrabasada, are residues that should also go to them from the health center.

And then, the insulin bolis to the Sigre point of the pharmacy (which I learned that even the spent blisters of the pills with their box had to be delivered), but with those of Trulicity I have not yet achieved that anyone tells me what to do, because they do not even pick them up in the health center or should be able to throw in the sigre, but in theory yes because the needle is covered.

And I add that my noses touches my noses that nobody wants to take care of this waste because they are supposed to have their risks, but they happily tell you that you throw them into the trash.I suppose that this personnel who will treat him in a plant like the one who throws a rest of the chicken is not important or any care with them.

Hello!In Navarra we deliver them in the "clean points".The health centers give you containers for sharp objects, and once full and sealed, it takes to the clean point and they manage their elimination.I imagine that it depends on the management that each autonomous community makes of the waste.

Aristarco said:
@Aristarco said:

[[ERROR-TRANS]]Cuando empecé con esto de la diabetes, me pregunté lo mismo que tú.

[[ERROR-TRANS]]Nadie sabía dónde deshacerse de la dichosas agujas, ni el médico, ni el farmacéutico, ni la empresa de recogida de basura.

[[ERROR-TRANS]]A mi entender deberían de ser las farmacias que tan gustosamente las suministran, pero le llevé las primeras dos cajas de agujas que use y me dijeron muy alarmados que "aquí no aquí no".

[[ERROR-TRANS]]Ahora también pienso que los MCG deberían de ir a algún lugar donde los puedan tratar (tienen una aguja y una pila), pero le pregunté a la enfermera de la diabetes y me dijo que no tenía ni idea de que hacer con este material.

In the end.....

To me in the health center, (Alboya - Valencia), they give me a yellow boat to throw them and once full I take it to the center, they stay with the full and give me another empty boat.

I am from Granada and in my health center they told me that he will throw the needles in the trash ... I was stunned because the needles are biological waste in contact with blood and must have a special treatment.I told them that if they threw the injectable needles, for example in the trash and, of course, no.My sister works in a hospital and told me that each health center pays a tax for the collection of biological materials and is rate depending on the weight of the residue.In summary, they do not catch needles because they raise their rate.

I commented on the hospital, and there they will have another recycling system or rate and they told me that it will wear the needles there and we are doing so.

In short and as always money sends ... 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Thera in Madrid, before, gave a yellow container that you filled with the needles, but canceled it.

Actually the amount of metallic material is very low in a needle, its environmental impact is insignificant compared to a drop of oil in the water that goes through the pipe simply when washing a plate.

The only risk is biological for the possible remains of blood in the needles.

I throw everything in normal trash, every day that happens I realize that everything is a great media ball, with many economic and political interests.Who or what is Ecoembes?Why is there a single recycling company? Why mixes the waste and sells them palletized?

Hello people, I already solved my question.

In Madrid, at least at the clean point of Barajas, the staff explained to me that they have yellow containers, so you just have to take your container with the needles, and they give you the yellow container to empty your container there.Then they are in charge of closing their yellow container and processing it.

They have explained that, at least in Madrid, it is done in all clean points, without exception.And the truth that the girl explained it super kindly and clearly.

Let's see if those of Madrid serve you the info!

Thanks anyway for your comments ❤️