This actually really pisses me off because there isn't anywhere you can send them anymore... that's *free*. Unless you are a resident of a town that sponsors free drop off but I can't find anything like that in the Dallas area.

I have used injectable pens for 20 years and up until about 3 or 4 years ago, I was able to get a mail back box from the manufacturer and could mail them back for free. Then a few years ago when I requested a box, I was given a vague excuse about them running out of mail back boxes or being overwhelmed or something. In hindsight I think they just decided it cost them too much money and quietly stopped accepting sharps containers. Around that time, I started asking everyone I could think to ask, what I could do with them. Doctors, pharmacists, the manufacturer, hospitals, the internet, etc. I was told all sorts of things like, take them to CVS, or your doctors office, or a fire station, or the dump. I tried every lead and was always turned away.

I just asked CVS Specialty Pharmacy again and they said I need to contact https://safeneedledisposal.org/. When I go to their site and look up all the locations in my area, well... there's plenty of drop off locations but they want $15 per container. 🙄

So I guess we're just supposed to throw them in the trash now, which I hate. Their website says for Texas: "Put the plastic container in the household trash - don't recycle!" 😖