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A sharps container or box is used for filling disposing used medical needles and other sharp medical tools. As such, a sharps container is a very important item in every health care facility, big or small, especially for their medical waste management Sunrise.

There are two types of sharps containers that can be used for medical waste removal:

  • Disposable sharps containers
  • Reusable sharps containers

The difference here is only in the fact that the first type is disposed together with the sharps in it. This is usually done by burning it in the incinerator machine, but sharps containers can also be disposed in a sanitized landfill or burred.

A reusable sharps container, like its name suggests, is not thrown away and destroyed with the sharps waste. Instead, it is emptied (this is done robotically to minimize the potential injury to medical waste management workers, but also to minimize the contamination by hands.

  • Why is placing sharps waste in containers necessary for proper medical waste removal?

One of the main causes of HIV is sharing needles. This, however, does not even have to be intentional. A blood pathogen such as this can remain on the used needle or other sharps and, if it doesn’t get sterilized and put into a sharps container, someone can get stabbed on this needle and infect himself or herself. Apart from HIV, people can also contract Hepatitis B and C this way.

A number of online vendors offer different brands of sharps containers. Many of them go beyond simply selling these respectables and offer point-of-use, free shipping and other useful services and features.. However, the problem with online vendors is that the buyer often can’t be certain of the quality of their sharps containers.

Since it is absolutely necessary for good medical waste management Sunrise that the containers in which sharps will be disposed are resistant to puncture, leak proof and sturdy enough, it is better to purchase them in a way that allows the buyer to see first-hand their quality.

One way to do this is by purchasing sharps containers from a medical waste removal company directly. Many of them sell waste containers, including red biohazard bags and sharps containers to their clients, for a modest price. This not only helps the buyer by with disposing of these wastes, but also bonds them closer with the medical waste management company they are working with.

There is, of course, a very good reason not to use low-quality and sub-standard sharps containers. If your company does this, it could very likely be liable to a court lawsuit if someone gets injured or infected as a result.

Of course, the decision of whether you will use disposable sharps containers and add up to the already massive amounts of medical waste in the United States, or will you get reusable sharps containers and do your part, is really up to you and your Sunrise Medical Waste Disposal.