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Bio-Hazardous Waste Removal Coral Springs – How to Make a Sharps Container Yourself?

Sharps waste differs from other types of bio-hazardous waste in the fact that you first need to place it inside a special container (called a sharps container, obviously, or a sharps box), before you can put it in the bag with the rest of the medical waste.

  • What belongs in the sharps container?

Sharps containers house different items such as needles and scalpels that are used in healthcare for treating and diagnosing patients and are designed to lacerate or puncture human skin with relative ease. Since these instruments commonly get in contact with infected blood, they can house harmful viruses and bacteria that can then spread to another person’s blood stream, if sharps were not sterilized and disinfected properly and if the person handling them (usually someone sent by the medical waste management Coral Springs facility you hired, but can also be someone from your own medical care facility). This is the reason why this waste needs to be placed in a sharps container first.

  • Where do I buy a sharps container?

You can buy a sharps container from several sources. The most obvious one is the medical waste management Coral Springs company in your area. Also, you can buy these containers from a medical supply store. If you are running a tattoo shop, you will also need a sharps box and you can get one probably at the same place you buy all your other equipment.

  • Can I make a sharps container myself?

Yes, you can. In fact, this is a perfectly acceptable bio-hazardous waste removal practice, as long as your container meets all the federal and state medical waste management standards. That means being made from a material sturdy enough not to be easily pierced for one. The container also has to have a snap-tight lid made from either metal or plastic and the entire case has to be leak-proof.

Basically, just as you can’t dispose of sharps in a waste bag or a trash bin, you alls can’t use something like a cardboard box or a wooden crate for its disposal. Look for a solid plastic or metal box for this purpose.

The next step, once you’ve chosen the box, is to remove its lid for a moment and flip it upside down and draw a rectangle on its center with a perm market.

Put a piece of cardboard under the lid. Of course, if you wasn’t to protect the surface you work on. Take a knife and cut open a shape using the outlines you just marked. Take your time with this step and be careful not to cut yourself. Then the whole purpose of making a sharps container is wasted, right?

Replace the cover of the container with packaging tap and make sure that you place the tape end on the cover rim side. Extend the tape over the top side of the cover (about ½ to 1 inch and fasten the tape around the top of the container.

Now all that is left to do with this DIY medical waste management project is to mark it with a “biohazard” sign and start disposing your sharps in it.

A word of advice. Although this type of sharps box may work in home conditions or perhaps if you are running a tattoo parlor, you should still buy actual sharps containers from your bio-hazardous waste removal company to be completely safe.