Sharps Program

Seminole County offers a Sharps Program that provides a safe, easy and free method for residents to dispose of hypodermic needles and lancets. Residents can pick up a container, return it when full and get a new container.

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Here's How It Works

• Never dispose of sharps in your garbage or curbside recycling bins.
• Sharps Containers must be returned to one of the designated disposal sites.
• Please do not drop-off Sharps Containers before or after published hours.
• Please use the Sharps Container for needles, syringes, and lancets only.
• Keep out of reach of children.
• Do not return any unsealed Sharps Container. If the lid is defective, request a new lid when you return the container.
• At the disposal site, give your Sharps Container to authorized personnel and never leave it unattended.
• Keep the Sharps Container clean and free from blood.
• No other biomedical waste or red-bag waste will be accepted at these sites.
• Only County issued Sharps Containers are accepted at these sites.
• Please do not over-fill the Sharps Containers.
• Visit one of the disposal sites during the hours specified:

  Sanford Health Clinic	Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  Seminole County Environmental Services	Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  Central Transfer Station	Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  Seminole County Landfill	Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  Casselberry Health Clinic	Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  All Fire Stations within Seminole County (Fire stations may not be open if all units are on a call.)	Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.