Sharps
The Delta Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility is now open with special COVID-19 safety requirements. Please be aware of the following requirements before visiting the facility:
- All customers must wear face coverings when visiting the facility. Face coverings must be worn by all vehicle occupants while the customer is being served, even while in the vehicle.
- Customers must remain in the vehicle at all times.
- Service will only be provided to customers in vehicles. No walk ups, bicycles or motorcycles are allowed at this time.
- All waste must be placed in the trunk, rear truck bed, or rear compartment of a van or hatchback. No waste will be removed from vehicle cabs.
- Please have your driver’s license available for verification of residency in the service area. Facility staff are utilizing a new contactless reader to collect information. Place the backside of your license against the driver’s side window to be scanned.
- Please keep vehicle windows closed unless speaking to the attendant. When communicating with staff, please only lower the window enough to be heard.
- The Reuse Room is closed.
Sharps include syringes, needles, and lancets used in the medical treatment of people and animals. Sharps placed in the trash at home, school, or other public places may fall out of containers, stick out of trash bags, or fall to the ground, creating a safety hazard.
The Delta Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility Sharps Program is only available to residents of East Contra Costa County. We cannot accept sharps from medical personnel, medical practices, assisted living facilities, senior center or any other business. This program is being provided as a community service and is not intended to fully support residents in their sharps disposal needs. Due to high demand and limited budget, we are strictly limiting the number of replacement sharps containers given out to one container per visit per day.
Please note, with the reopening of the Delta Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility (HHW Facility), the District is only mailing Sharp containers to NEW Sharp program participants. You are encourage to bring your full Sharp container to the HHW Facility and we will provide you with one replacement container per trip.
How to Safely Dispose of Sharps
Take three simple and safe steps with used sharps:
- Complete and submit the online form below to request a 1.4 quart BD Home Sharps Container and to receive your initial container by mail. The container holds 70-100 insulin syringes or 300 pen needles. Syringe capacity depends on the size of the syringe. The mailing of a sharps container is limited to one container upon initial enrollment in the program. Additional containers can only be obtained by turning in a full container at the DHHWCF or other associated sharps disposal location.
- When you receive the Sharps Container in the mail, fill it with syringes, needles, and/or lancets following container directions.
- Deliver full Sharps Containers to Delta Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facilityand pick up another free container. Limit one replacement sharps container per visit, regardless of the number of full containers that are received.
Additional Drop-Off Locations
The DHHWCF has partnered with the City Center Pharmacies in Pittsburg and Brentwood to provide additional sharps drop-off locations. As with the DHWWCF, one free 1.4 quart BD Sharps Container is provided per customer upon request.
Central RX Pharmacy - Brentwood
50 Eagle Rock Way, Suite C
Brentwood, CA 94513
925.240.9777
M-F 9am - 7pm
https://www.centralrxpharmacy.com/
Sharps drop-off is only available during business hours. Pharmacy hours are subject to change. Please call or visit the website of the respective location for current hours. By law, sharps can only be accepted in approved medical sharps containers - no exceptions!
Download the District’s Sharps Brochure:
