How to Sort Your Waste

CRC

This item is a sharp — a special category of home health-care waste.

Sharps include:

• auto-injectors
• injection pens
• injectors
• lancets
• needles
• prefilled pens
• syringes

Always place discarded sharps in a biohazard container for safe, free disposal. Never dispose of sharps in your garbage, organics or recycling.

To safely dispose of sharps:

1. Pick up a free biohazard container from a Peel Community Recycling Centre (CRC)
2. Fill the container
3. Return the filled container to a CRC for safe, free disposal and pick up a new empty container for free.

CRCs only accept discarded sharps in biohazard containers. Do not bring your sharps to a CRC in anything but a biohazard container. This service is for residents only, not businesses.

The Ontario Sharps Collection Program for local pharmacies also provides a similar service for sharps disposal. Visit the Health Products Stewardship Association – Ontario website for more information.

• Disposing of home health-care waste