Sharps waste is a type of biohazardous waste. For more information, review Sharps 101: Understanding Sharps Waste and Proper Needle Disposal.
Sharps Disposal Services
We offer a wide range of reusable and disposable sharps containers and sharps disposal service options tailored to your facility type and size. We can help you safely manage sharps disposal at your facility.
Convenient and Safe Sharps Waste Disposal Services with a Compliance Expert
Prevent Needlestick Injuries with Safe Needle Disposal
Whether they’re disposable or reusable, Stericycle sharps containers are designed with safety in mind to help you compliantly dispose of sharps and reduce needlestick injuries that can result in bloodborne pathogens exposure.
Flexible Sharps Disposal Service Options to Match Your Needs
Reusable, mail back, and disposable sharps containers, as well as full service and self-service options for sharps container exchange, supporting a variety of healthcare facilities and businesses.
Regulatory Compliance
We offer sharps disposal and documentation to maintain compliance with applicable federal and state, OSHA and DOT regulations.
Trusted Service Partners for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
While many healthcare organizations focus on how to safely and compliantly dispose of sharps waste inside their organization, they can lose sight of what happens to waste once it leaves the facility. From disposal to transportation to treatment, a knowledgeable medical waste management partner can play a key role in ensuring the waste management process is handled properly from end to end.
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Our Sharps Disposal and Management Solutions
Disposable Sharps Solution
Our Disposable Sharps Containers allow you to easily manage sharps waste with your biohazardous or “red bag” waste disposal safely and compliantly.
Reusable Sharps Containers
Our Sharps Management Service utilizes reusable containers and streamlines the collection and disposal of sharps waste helping you protect what matters.
Workplace Sharps Disposal
Our Workplace Sharps Solution provides customers and employees a convenient solution to safely dispose of hypodermic needles used from self-injected medications.
SafeDrop™ Sharps Mail Back
Stericycle's SafeDrop Sharps Mail Back program includes everything needed to safely collect and dispose of sharps with auto-replenishment options available.
Carbon Footprint Calculator
In 2020, Stericycle and its client-partners diverted 104 million pounds of plastic from entering landfills through the use of reusable sharps containers. Stericycle was a pioneer in sustainable medical waste disposal and continues to this day to innovate safe, compliant, and eco-conscious solutions that protect the team members, patients, and communities of healthcare organizations around the world.
Use our Carbon Footprint Estimator to see how your healthcare organization will reduce greenhouse gas emissions if you switch from single use, disposable containers to Stericycle reusable sharps containers. If you are currently using Stericycle reusable sharps containers, use the tool to calculate and celebrate your sustainability achievements.
Frequently Asked Questions About Sharps Disposal
Contaminated sharps can pose a threat to the safety of staff and communities if not properly disposed.
Sharps containers are designed to collect sharps material and mitigate risk of needlestick injuries.
Contaminated items that can puncture skin or packaging should be disposed of in a sharps container.
You can obtain a sharps container from Stericycle – we’d be pleased to help you. Contact us via the phone number on this webpage or by filling out the “Request Free Quote” button on the top right of this webpage.
A sharps mail back program has everything required to easily and conveniently collect and dispose of sharps waste. Simply fill the provided sharps container with used needles, pen needles and syringes. Once full, pack and ship the container with the prepaid return label for disposal.
There are several methods for disposing of sharps containers including autoclaving and incineration. For more information, review Sharps 101: Understanding Sharps Waste and Proper Needle Disposal.
Why Stericycle?
Your Single Nationwide Partners
We manage all healthcare regulated waste streams, and offer related compliance support such as training and educational materials. Our network of localized team members across the country maintain a 97% on-time pickup rate.1
Your Risk Reduction Experts
Our Regulatory Affairs team under Environmental Health & Safety keeps up to date with regulatory changes and engages with federal, state, and local agencies as needed to help keep our customers informed and compliant.
Your Sustainability Champion
In 2023, Stericycle recycled 906 million pounds of paper, incinerated 55 million pounds of pharmaceutical waste, and helped our customers divert 101 million pounds of plastic from landfills by using reusable sharps and pharmaceutical waste containers rather than single-use containers.1
1. Source: Stericycle data, 2023
Full-Service Sharps Waste Management by Stericycle can improve hospital staff safety and satisfaction
57%
of nurses agreed that their organization would benefit from a more frequent sharps disposal schedule to eliminate sharps disposal containers filled above the recommended fill line
89%
of nurses with Stericycle as a vendor felt their organization had an effective sharps waste management system
Source: The Role of Sharps Waste Management Solutions in Nursing Staff Safety and Satisfaction
The Role of Sharps Waste Management Solutions in Nursing Staff Safety and Satisfaction is an independently administered nationwide blind survey of registered nurses (RNs) in hospital and outpatient settings in the US.
