After Blade Bank Is Full - Where Do You Take The Blades?

I bring mine to the scrap yard and throw them on the scale. My blade bank is almost full. I’m sitting on a cool 14¢ in scrap steel. I’m saving for a Mardi Gras vacation someday. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Is that cash or check?

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Pork still brings travelers cheques along when he travels, so probably money orders or cashiers cheques

Sorry to have given the impression that recycling the used DE blades was being undertaken for money. Rather, it was to prevent them being buried in a landfill where they would poison the environment or could cut animals or people in the future. Literally just drop them off at the station

I checked the website of the city I live in and they say that all "sharps" , which includes needles and razor blades, need to be in a puncture resistant, non-breakable container, securely shut, marked "sharps" with a permanent marker (sharpie!!) and tossed in the regular trash.

Our city has no recycling for sharps, including razor blades. When my blade bank gets full I take the blades out & wrap them in duct tape many layers thick & put them in our weekly trash pickup.

Our city has no recycling for sharps, including razor blades. When my blade bank gets full I take the blades out & wrap them in duct tape many layers thick & put them in our weekly trash pickup.

They are not sharp when they are in a blade bank, though. I put masking tape over the slot and just chuck the bank in the recycle bin. Our garbage collection dumps all recyclables into some sort of a separator that separates out paper, plastic, metals, etc.

Sorry to have given the impression that recycling the used DE blades was being undertaken for money. Rather, it was to prevent them being buried in a landfill where they would poison the environment or could cut animals or people in the future. Literally just drop them off at the station

Recycling materials of all sorts is being undertaken for money. The garbage collection companies get paid for recycled materials. And then the rat b######s jack up our the collection fees for regular garbage. The excuse they give is that more people are recycling so there is less regular garbage, so they are not making enough money on the collection fees.

My blade bank is not full yet. Once it does get full , I intend to flood it with water and let the blades rust for a week or two with water still inside. Post that I will drain the water and duct it many layers thick and drown it a sewage reservoir.


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My blade bank is not full yet. Once it does get full , I intend to flood it with water and let the blades rust for a week or two with water still inside. Post that I will drain the water and duct it many layers thick and drown it a sewage reservoir.


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not a bad idea!!

Would checking with the local hospital be worth the effort? I won't be full any time soon, but i was also wondering if there were any places truly recycling them. Maybe worth sending somewhere if I ever build up enough "supply".

Taking to a local grocery restroom with a sharps container will result in the same end-point as taking blades to a hospital. Anything that is sharp is treated as a medical sharp and processed as such to avoid pathogens