The Brown County Health Department is giving out sharps collection containers that residents can use to safely dispose of needles, syringes and lancets.
Once the container is full, it can be returned to the Brown County Health Department for free disposal.
This is not a syringe exchange program.
This is an effort to ensure proper disposal of sharps used on people, pets and livestock, “to keep sharps out of our daily trash and helping to maintain Brown County as a beautiful place to work and live,” the health department reported in a press release.
The health department will only collect and dispose of FDA-cleared sharps containers. Alternative sharps containers, such as laundry detergent bottles or coffee cans, will not be accepted.
Sharps containers are for sharps only. No other waste is to be placed in the container.
Anyone can get another free sharps container upon return of a full one.
Containers may be picked up or dropped off at the Brown County Health Department, 201 Locust Lane, between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. with the exception of holidays.
For more information, call the Brown County Health Department at 812-988-2255 and ask for the nursing division.
