Stanley Knife Blades Disposal

[johnbarry]

I have a stanley knife (years old) when a blade becomes blunt I keep it in the knife.

I have run out of room and have took them out (only 5), I know they are sharp. If I put them in a box and bin the box, someone might get cut.

I have been searching, the majority are for sharps, stanley do one but it’s £12 not worth for a one off.

But I don’t wish to injure, what should I do with them, is a sharps box good enough, however they give the wrong details for contents if I put blades in.

Cheers
John

[PlaneMan]

What I do with mine is to wrap them together, duct tape usually, then a layer of cardboard, more duct tape, more cardboard then more duct tape.

Would have to be the world’s unluckiest person to get cut by them.

[JayCeeDee]

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.

[Drezha]

I use these – I have one for my razorblades from shaving. Any moneybox would do.

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[The Duke]

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.

[johnbarry]

JayCee I had a look on the link and registered, selected one (£2.69) by the time they put Vat & post on it was near £5. I removed it.

PM I have no duct tape, maybe if I use card and masking tape.

Cheers
John

[PlaneMan]

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 P]

Although the previous answers are ‘safe’, it depends on your Local Authority, check with their Recycling Group. Ours do not care as they use magnets to pull out ferrous metal, and other methods for Aluminium etc  Yours may hand sort in which case take their advice.

[The Duke]

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.

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[Bob Williams]

Brown packing tape. I save all sharps until there is a fair amount, in an old treacle tin*. Then I wrap them all in several layers of brown packing tape, cardboard, more packing tape. I take them to the local waste dump and tell the guys there they are sharps: they have a big bin marked sharps, with a list of what can go in. They appreciate that I wrap the sharps. We have a really good waste site in Louth, open Friday, Sat, Sun & Mondays only, really helpful guys.

*Tate& Lyle treacle tins, with secure, tight fitting lid. My missus puts it on her porridge, I use honey. Very useful tins when clean and dried. I have all sorts of stuff in several tins.

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[Richard]

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

[RSB]

Me being a Yorkshire man I use them untill they could not cut butter nether mind a person ??

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[johnbarry]

Thanks for the suggestions, I have a coffee jar with lid (why da I think of that)

Sorted

Cheers
John

[Ed P]

Fine if it goes in Landfill, however you should not try to recycle ‘mixed’ materials such as that.

[Spedley]

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.

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[johnbarry]

Ed strangely I never mentioned recycle. Edit: sos it was a suggestion you made.

Spedley if I only have 2-3 black bin liners on collection they fetch them out (the dust cart can’t get outside). Although I make sure they are tied (sometimes double liners for better protection) if they split or drop and split the bin man has to pick up the waste that falls out. If I wrapped a blade in tissue, they are sure get cut.

Cheers
John

[Ed P]

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!

[johnbarry]

Thinking of the above ideas, I came across an old gravy tub

What do you think

Cheers
John

[Richard]

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

[johnbarry]

I will put it in a black bag, then in the wheelie bin, hopefully the council take it away, that’s the theory.

I watched a program about fly tippers, the council officers rip the black bag open, to search through looking for adresses.

You never know what happens to the bin.

That reminds me a couple of weeks ago most the wheelie bins were stolen from near properties, the thief/s has since been back and took more. There are 6 left which are now locked together with a bike lock.

The council say they have to pay £35 for new ones or £13 for a second hand bin, even though they have a crime number. The refuse collectors are at least picking up the rubbish that’s in bin liners, till another bin is sorted. .

Back to it the theif dumped all rubbish out the bins on a nearby field, that’s rubbish someone might tamper with. If there are stanley blades in, more work for the NHS.

I also watch balif evictions have you seen the rubbish that gets left behind, some has to pick it up.

So you just never know be safe in the first place.

Cheers
John

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