The Southern Berkshire Public Health Collaborative provides sharps disposal in 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: 510 North St, Suite 6-B2, Pittsfield
- Great Barrington Board of Health: 334 Main St, Gt Barrington
- Egremont Transfer Station: 171 Plain Rd, S. Egremont (residents only)
- Fairview Hospital Emergency Room: 29 Lewis Ave, Gt Barrington (24/7)
- Otis Town Hall: 417 North Main Rd, Otis
- Sheffield Town Hall: 21 Depot Square, Sheffield
- South County Recovery Center: 67 State Rd, Great Barrington
- Tri-Town Health Department: 45 Railroad St, Lee