Alison Sherman, Torrance’s waste management coordinator, said in a previous Ask Us column that syringes are considered sharps waste and should be disposed of like needle sharps waste.

Flash forward to 2010, and a Houston company is doing almost that very thing, and with medical waste, no less. Sharps Compliance takes items like needles, syringes and lancets, and presses them ...

Sharps Compliance Corp. has landed a joint deal with Waste Management Inc. to provide safe disposal systems and related services for Waste Management customers who use needles or syringes in the ...

News 5 took a closer look at how to properly throw away this kind of medical waste, which can be referred to as "sharps." Katie Bennett is in fourth grade, and found out around three years ago ...

Sharps waste. This type of waste poses the biggest injury risk. It comes from medical devices that have sharp points or edges that can puncture or cut skin. These include syringes, needles ...

Home-generated sharps waste can be disposed of through the county-sponsored household hazardous waste roundups, Los Angeles SAFE centers, county Department of Health centers and other locations.