Needle and Syringe disposal
If you find discarded syringes in a public place report them immediately using the below report form. Under normal circumstances, they will be collected within 1 day of receiving a report, free of charge. You should NOT remove needles or syringes yourself.
Due to the danger of needlestick injuries, needles and syringes should not be disposed of in the refuse collection. This presents a serious hazard to people collecting or handling the refuse.
Needles (sharps) disposal
Where a person treats themselves in their home, it is their responsibility to dispose of any clinical waste in a responsible way. This should be by using a sharps bin and taking this to a disposal point. There are 5 pharmacies within the Malvern Hills district that will accept sharps boxes up to 9 litre, including purple lidded or “toxic” sharps. These are listed below, as well as other pharmacies who will accept 1 litre boxes.
Sharps bins are plastic containers designed for the safe disposal of hazardous waste. Sharps bins are available on prescription from your doctor. They can take needles, empty syringes, empty insulin cartridges and lancets. Some patients use ‘B-D safe clip' devices to remove the needle from the syringe. This does not need to be done if the needle and syringe are put straight into the sharps bin.
Where patients are prescribed sharps boxes by their GP they can take the full boxes back to their GP for disposal provided the practice is registered with Worcestershire County Council to accept this waste.
A list of sites within Malvern Hills (and surrounding districts) where sharps boxes can be taken to, can be found here: Clinical waste (sharps) | Worcestershire County Council
Please note, this is managed by Worcestershire County Council, as the Waste Disposal Authority, and Malvern Hills District Council has no involvement in the approval of pharmacies.
Sharps disposal points
The following pharmacies WILL accept boxes between 1 and 9 litres. They WILL accept yellow OR purple lidded boxes:
- Murrays Healthcare Malvern Pharmacies Group Maple Rd, Enigma Business Park, Malvern WR14 1GQ Tel:01684 89194
- Murrays Healthcare Prospect View, 300 Pickersleigh Road, Malvern, WR14 2GP. Tel: 01684 567281
- Murrays Healthcare 146 Worcester Road, Malvern WR14 1SS Tel: 01684 575990
- Virdee G (Lygon Pharmacy) 84 Worcester Road, Malvern WR14 1NY Tel: 01684 561196
- Rowlands, 7-9 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8BB Tel: 01584 810480