Clinic & disposal
The lines that run out mid clinic and the ones a regulator asks about. Sharps containers to the Australian standard in the sizes that suit a bench, a wall bracket or a home bathroom cupboard. Used needles cannot go in kerbside waste anywhere in the country, and the rules for a full container differ by state. The standard is what makes a container a container: rigid walls, a lid that locks shut permanently, a biohazard mark and a fill line. A drink bottle has none of those and will not be accepted anywhere that takes sharps. Size it to how fast you fill it rather than to the shelf you want it on. A container that takes a year to fill has been open for a year. Wall mounts for the rooms where a bench container is a hazard in itself, and a bracket that takes the same body so you are not buying two systems. Couch roll, blueys and clinical waste bags in cartons rather than singles, because these are the wrong place to be lean. Surface wipes rated for clinical use rather than the supermarket equivalent. What the numbers on a needle mean if you are working out what is going into the container in the first place.
Prices are indicative while the range is being finalised, and you cannot check out yet. Open any product to pre-order it, which takes an email address and no payment, and the price and the pack size are confirmed before anything is charged.
Not sure which one you need?
Three plain questions and the Gauge Finder tells you the thickness, the length and how many. Nothing you answer is stored.
Sharps containers, and the fill line
Rigid polypropylene, yellow, puncture resistant, with a temporary closure you can work one handed and a final closure that cannot be reopened. Fill to the line and not past it, because an overfull container cannot be closed safely.
What happens to a full container depends on your state or territory. Our guide to sharps disposal sets out the arrangements in each.
Getting rid of a full one
A sharps container is the one consumable here with an exit problem: it is easy to buy and the question nobody answers is where it goes afterwards. We supply containers and we are not a collection service, so the route out is somebody else's.
That route is a participating pharmacy, a council collection point or a community health service, and which of those applies depends entirely on which state you are in. Sharps disposal, state by state has a table of who to ask where, and it deliberately has no addresses: those lists go stale, and a stale one sends somebody carrying used needles to a locked door.
Buy the size you will fill in a reasonable time rather than the biggest one. A container is sealed and surrendered once, so a 5L box that takes three years to fill is three years of a sharps container in a cupboard.
The fill line is not advice
Every compliant container has a line at about three quarters. It is there because a container filled past it cannot be closed properly and because somebody has to handle it afterwards, which is the part that matters and the part nobody filling it is thinking about.
Once it is at the line, close it and start another. A container is designed to be sealed once and not reopened, which is also why a sealed one cannot be checked, topped up or tidied.
The things that stop a room working
Couch roll, blueys, waste bags and wipes are nobody’s job to order and everybody’s problem when they run out. This is exactly the category that belongs on a standing order rather than on someone’s memory.
Questions about clinic & disposal
If yours is not here, the contact form routes to the person who can answer it.
Where do I dispose of a full sharps box?
Can I reopen a sealed container to fit more in?
Can used needles go in the household bin?
What size sharps container do I need?
Know when it lands
We are still building the range. Leave an address and we will tell you what has come in, without making a project of it.
Restock notices and new guides. Two or three emails a month at most, one click to stop, and we do not sell or share the address.