Arrange Disposal Of Needles

If you require a needle collection, your doctor will give you a prescription for a sharps box.

Residents should use the form on the below link to book a sharps collection and boxes should be made available from 6am from a designated place – usually the front of the property (collections cannot be made from inside a property, porch or stairwell):

Unused needles that need to be collected should be placed in the sharps box; we cannot take needles that are not in a box even if they are unused. Sharps boxes cannot be brought to the council offices.

Collections take place on a Wednesday. Requests received before 5pm on the Tuesday (4pm from Tuesday October 13) will be collected the next day. Requests received after this will be collected the following week on the Wednesday.

We will only collect a minimum of five boxes of sharps unless:

• The customer has finished the course of treatment, or

• There will not be any further collections from the property, or

• The customer only asks for an ad hoc collection every one to two months (ie, they do not request a collection on a weekly basis)

To begin you booking please click the link below and then select Book A Sharps Box Collection, then you will be asked further details needed to arrange collection.