Sharps Disposal Locations in South County
The Southern Berkshire Public Health Collaborative provides sharps disposal kiosks in eleven (11) locations throughout our member communities. Many people use needles, syringes and lancets—called “sharps”—to manage their medical conditions at home. These conditions include diabetes, allergies, infertility, arthritis, hepatitis, HIV, blood clotting disorders, migraines and cancer. Sharps are also used to give medication to pets and farm animals.
But the haphazard disposal of these devices is putting a lot of other people, including waste-disposal workers, housekeepers, family members and children, at risk of injury and serious infections.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has created a new web section with information about the safe disposal of needles and other sharps at http://www.fda.gov/safesharpsdisposal.
Sharps locations in Southern Berkshire County include:
- Alford Transfer Station: 5 Alford Center Rd, Alford (residents only)
- Berkshire Harm Reduction: 42 Summer St, Pittsfield
- Great Barrington Town Hall: Board of Health Office, 334 Main St, Second Floor
- Great Barrington Transfer Station: 601 Stockbridge Rd, open during transfer station hours (residents only)
- Egremont Transfer Station: 171 Plain Rd, S. Egremont (residents only)
- Lee Town Hall: 32 Main Street Lee in front lobby
- Monterey Transfer Station: 40 Gould Rd, Monterey (residents only) – Open during Transfer Station Hours.
- New Marlborough Town Hall: 807 Mill River Southfield Rd -M-F: 8am – 3pm
- Otis Town Hall: 1 Main Rd, Otis, M- Thurs – 9am – 4pm
- Sandisfield Transfer Station: 144 Sandisfield Rd (residents only) During normal transfer station hours
- Sheffield Town Hall: 21 Depot Square, Sheffield M-R: 9am – 4pm
- South County Recovery Center: 67 State Rd, Great Barrington
- Stockbridge Town Hall: 50 Main St, Ground Floor (near public bathrooms) 8:30am – 9pm
- The Curtis Shops Lenox: 5 Walker Street, Lenox M-F, 9am – 6pm
