Stanley Knife Blades Disposal

John – THIS looks to be the cheapest solution @<£3. You’re right to be concerned, but £12 is fine for trade professionals, but for a lone DIY’er it’s a rip off.

I do exactly what PM does wrap them in duct tape, no cardboard. Failing that a bit of paper then celotape.

Mainly just so the kids or dogs don’t get cut. Ad once they leave the house. The bin wagon is full of dangerous stuff, so I wouldn’t worry too much if you haven got kids of pets about.

John, whatever you use, elastic bands, bits of string, doesn’t really matter, the cardboard layers matter, don’t forget to make sure all planes (height, width, depth) are equally covered.

Ed, we can only go so far in making somthing safe. The recycle centre is responsible for the safety of their staff. I think this subject is being over thought.

I just want to make sure they make it I’m the bin waggon without cutting anyone. Also the waging is filly of curbed class and metal, so it’s dangerous anyway.

Jb if youre really concerned. Put them in a used coffer jar with lid in (write blades inside). then once they get to a recycle centre if they are hand picked, the person can easily sort them.

One coffee jar shoudlckastvyiu ten years to full.

This does not appear out of the way if you are really worried https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharpsguard-Sharps-Bin-litre-Yellow/dp/B002ZGQ8IA

To be honest I have usually put the bits of blades from those that trim of quarter of an inch segments or the full final segment in the disposal waste bin NOT the recycling. I see others use a sharps bin or ask a friendly medical centre to slip them into their sharps bin We have one on the go at the moment but I am not open to running a commercial venture on the basis of medical need.

A modelling club might have a suitable waste scheme set up and might be able to help

Gone are the days of binmen putting it on their backs – largely because of sharp things (and heavy).  Once in the wheelie bin it shouldn’t come into contact again with anything.  I wrap it in a piece of kitchen towel and put them in the kitchen bin .. Never had a problem.

I guess attitudes to disposal depend very heavily on Local Authority(LA)  commitments to recycling. Ours is very heavily biased towards minimising landfill and maximising recycling and composting. As a result our land fill wheelie bin volume is on average only 25% full, unlike the almost overflowing recycling. Any waste food is composted in a Swedish designed hot composter which the LA supplied at low cost (<£10 iirc) – this eats everything including dead foxes!

That should hold about the next 150 years of discarded knives for me, can anyone see the slight snag.
Why would anyone be sorting black bag rubbish? The recycling potential of a very few grams of steel is close to zero, already a large amount of ‘recyclable waste’ ends up burned or buried. Stanley knife blades, especially the ‘break a bit off and get a new point’ variety are very, very small beer