[MDLNB]

Originally Posted by Bella6368

Are you serious? The gentleman was simply trying to find out where he could take the needle to be disposed of properly. As I'm sure he was well aware obviously that you cant just throw it in the garbage. Guess you missed the whole point.

Sure I throw it in the garbage. They burn the garbage here. Whether or not it's proper, if you break the needle off and through them into the trash, they are hardly dangerous.

This is a big Nothing Burger. Probably a made up story anyway.

Obviously, folks here are over the Covid hysteria and NEED to find other ideas to incite panic and hysteria. And yes, I do know that there is a "proper" way to dispose of needles by the health care professionals. I also know that most folks do not carry around a disposal kit. Break the needle and throw it away. Dangerous? Not even as dangerous as throwing an old style can of soup lid and can in the trash.

Well, at least folks are getting out and about during this big pandemic scare.

[blueash]

Originally Posted by MandoMan

I do a lot of work with single-edged razor blades and box cutter blades, and I change them whenever they no longer cut cleanly. Even at that point, they are very sharp. I don’t want to just toss them in the trash. Instead, I wrap a few inches of duct tape around the blade, leaving half an inch of tape overlap near the cutting surfaces. Then I toss them. No accidental cuts. Works with needles, too.

Perhaps you are unaware, but the term sharps container in medical speak does not mean disposal of any sharp material such as your razor blades in your home. It refers to materials that may be contaminated with blood or other infectious materials. It is perfectly legal for an individual to throw away a razor blade or a box cutter in their home trash without precautions or broken glass or blood stained clothing. Actually a person with diabetes can throw away their needles at home as well. It is discouraged and there are programs to make it easy to not do that, but it is not illegal AFAIK.
State by state laws as of 2019 are HERE
. I suspect if we were throwing our needles into the trash cans in the offices of the legislators in Tallahassee, we might see some rules in Florida (is that too political?)
It is human and decent to try to protect the workers who will collect your trash, as you do, but it is not required. It is regulated for businesses.

As to the post above mine

MDLNB

And yes, I do know that there is a "proper" way to dispose of needles by the health care professionals. I also know that most folks do not carry around a disposal kit. Break the needle and throw it away. Dangerous? Not even as dangerous as throwing an old style can of soup lid and can in the trash.

You're posting is garbage.

Just the simple choice to put quotes around "proper" tells the reader everything they need to know about your thinking process. There is in fact a proper was to dispose of needles, not a "proper" way. As to the thrust of your opinion. A soup can lid can cut the trash collector but it is not going to have blood from the user on it and not going to present a risk of contracting blood borne pathogens, unlike your needle which you believe you made safe. It is unclear how that person who is not carrying around a disposal kit just happens to be carrying around a needle cutter. The small needle cutters do NOT remove the needle, they just shorten it. There is a reason a sharps container has a biohazard label, and it is not because it might contain remnants of soup.

[Joe V.]

Originally Posted by Bella6368

Homeless people hanging around a rec center in The Villages? If this is so, then for the money we pay to live in TV, then TV should become a "Gated Community", not just one that portrays the image that it is a gated community, because as we all know, all one has to do is press the button, and anybody can get in.

How you going to do this when the county owns the roads?

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Your explanation makes to much sense , so it will be deemed fake news

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Bella6368

Homeless people hanging around a rec center in The Villages? If this is so, then for the money we pay to live in TV, then TV should become a "Gated Community", not just one that portrays the image that it is a gated community, because as we all know, all one has to do is press the button, and anybody can get in.

I knew what the gates were there for……before I bought here…..did you?

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Joe V.

How you going to do this when the county owns the roads?

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

Your explanation makes to much sense , so it will be deemed fake news

Is this the explanation you are referring to?

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by I'm Popeye!

. . . . . Was it this guy, the one you spoke with?

"no more MeTV for you!'

[PugMom]

next time, leave them where they are found & alert a rec center manager. the person who used them COULD be diabetic, & a simple explanation is prob around the corner. person dropped them, fell out of golf cart, etc., & prob doesn't even know they are gone.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Is this the explanation you are referring to?

And also besides the roads being county how do you think the people who don’t live in villages feel that they have to push a button to enter a road that they help pay for , there are locals that I have come in contact with around the county that when you mentioned the villages will say they wish they could ride around in there , maybe there not well informed but there no different then people on here that have said in the past they didn’t know it was not gated private hmmmm

[jimkerr]

What in the world would make you think it The Villages responsibility? Relax.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Marine1974

It’s a law all recreation centers must have sharps disposal containers and training for the staff on procedures to properly handle
bio hazard . Train the trainer .

Care to give a citation for that "law"?

And if it were a "law", which is highly doubtful, I'm sure somebody would have blown in all the Rec centers long ago for being out of compliance.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Bella6368

I agree, very poor response they gave you, and yes it should be their problem. Ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Debset

The Rec center gave you a terrible response and no help at all! That's the same with Community Watch. Thanks for trying to keep us safe!

Either of you care to explain why it would be the Rec center's problem?

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

FYI the only people I see in villages that appear homeless are many of the men I see in restaurants with there well dressed wife’s , ladies put your foot down , don’t let them go out dressed like that and at least make them take the baseball cap off and guys if your not a teenager a baseball cap on backwards does not make you look cool

[MDLNB]

Originally Posted by blueash

Perhaps you are unaware, but the term sharps container in medical speak does not mean disposal of any sharp material such as your razor blades in your home. It refers to materials that may be contaminated with blood or other infectious materials. It is perfectly legal for an individual to throw away a razor blade or a box cutter in their home trash without precautions or broken glass or blood stained clothing. Actually a person with diabetes can throw away their needles at home as well. It is discouraged and there are programs to make it easy to not do that, but it is not illegal AFAIK.
State by state laws as of 2019 are HERE
. I suspect if we were throwing our needles into the trash cans in the offices of the legislators in Tallahassee, we might see some rules in Florida (is that too political?)
It is human and decent to try to protect the workers who will collect your trash, as you do, but it is not required. It is regulated for businesses.

As to the post above mine



You're posting is garbage.

Just the simple choice to put quotes around "proper" tells the reader everything they need to know about your thinking process. There is in fact a proper was to dispose of needles, not a "proper" way. As to the thrust of your opinion. A soup can lid can cut the trash collector but it is not going to have blood from the user on it and not going to present a risk of contracting blood borne pathogens, unlike your needle which you believe you made safe. It is unclear how that person who is not carrying around a disposal kit just happens to be carrying around a needle cutter. The small needle cutters do NOT remove the needle, they just shorten it. There is a reason a sharps container has a biohazard label, and it is not because it might contain remnants of soup.

Whoopie Doo! A needle broken off in the trash is not more apt to stick someone than a soup can lid which is much larger. You are assuming that every needle that you find has a contagious disease. Kind of like the maskers thinking that anyone without a mask is infected. The fact is that your sharps container is not available everywhere you go. Next thing that will happen is that some on here will expect every gas station and carryout to have them available. This is real life. There is no reason that a rec center, which is short for the key work RECREATION should have a means to dispose of needles. Neither should the postal boxes where we pick up our mail. AND you are more likely to find junkie needles there than other places in the Villages. And I break needles all the time and have never used "needle cutters." Don't know about you but the needles I break, end up breaking off at the point they enter the syringe. I am sure that there are far more dangerous materials in the trash. I am not saying you are wrong, just not living in the real world if you think everybody is going to do the "proper" thing. And no, I am not a medical professional, although I have spent the night at the Holiday Inn Express.
And just a note: Syringes are used for other purposes besides medical. They are also used to apply glues and lubricants to small areas.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

And also besides the roads being county how do you think the people who don’t live in villages feel that they have to push a button to enter a road that they help pay for , there are locals that I have come in contact with around the county that when you mentioned the villages will say they wish they could ride around in there , maybe there not well informed but there no different then people on here that have said in the past they didn’t know it was not gated private hmmmm

The gates are essentially a traffic control measure, so how do people who live outside the Villages feel about stopping for a red light to continue on a road they helped pay for such as 466???