{"id":109138,"date":"2026-01-07T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:26:05","slug":"sharps-disposal-program-florida-department-of-health-in-leon-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109138\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharps Disposal Program &#8211; Florida Department of Health in Leon County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  For more information      <\/p>\n<p>\n            Call for more information about DOH_Leon\u2019s Sharps Collection Program.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"object-contain m-0 w-full h-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/leon.floridahealth.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/PhoneCall.svg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leon.floridahealth.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/PhoneCall.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"object-contain m-0 w-full h-full\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thousands of people use needles or \u201csharps\u201d in their homes to care for their health or the health of a family member. Sharps must be disposed of properly to protect people from life-threatening infections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Florida Department of Health in Leon County (DOH-Leon) offers a low-cost disposal program to give private residents a safe way to dispose of used sharps. If someone comes with their own container, there is a $10 disposal fee. If\u00a0we provide a container, there is a $10 fee.<\/p>\n<p>How To Dispose of Used Sharps<\/p>\n<p>Purchase an approved sharps container from a\u00a0local pharmacy or discount store.<\/p>\n<p>Throw away used sharps in the approved container.<\/p>\n<p>Only fill the sharps container 3\/4 full.\u00a0Secure the lid with tape.<\/p>\n<p>Drop off the sharps container at one\u00a0of our convenient locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Once your sharps container is 3\/4 full and the lid is secured, bring it to our <a href=\"https:\/\/leon.floridahealth.gov\/location\/main-office-roberts-stevens-clinic\/\" class=\"tprt-smart-link-preview tprt-smart-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roberts &amp; Stevens (R&amp;S) Clinic<\/a> on Fridays only from noon \u2013 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more information Call for more information about DOH_Leon\u2019s Sharps Collection Program. Thousands of people use needles or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-109138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}