HT dispose of disposable razors

[Jada59]

I ordered a box of disposable razors online. Some cheap brand. Have ordered them before. This time, they came with hazardous waste bags. Say what? Since when?

I asked this on FB and a friend acted like I was an idiot and told me since AIDs. Really? I can't find anything about this online. I do see that single razor blades should be disposed of in a sharps container. But disposable razors either go in landfill or in rare cases can be recycled.

Anyone know for sure?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have never hear of that, of course, I only use one disposable razor a year. I really don't shave all that often with a razor, I use my electric razor.

I will bet that it's a new state ordinance though. Knowing where you live, not exactly where, but in the state, I bet they passed, silently, some new ordinance just to fuck with you.

 

[uncle easy]

Trash

I use disposable razors and they go in the trash can.

 

[Jada59]

I have never hear of that, of course, I only use one disposable razor a year. I really don't shave all that often with a razor, I use my electric razor.

I will bet that it's a new state ordinance though. Knowing where you live, not exactly where, but in the state, I bet they passed, silently, some new ordinance just to fuck with you.

Not in this state. Can't find anything on that in this state. She doesn't live here. I think she's just wrong.

 

[Jada59]

I use disposable razors and they go in the trash can.

Thanks!

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

The manufacturer may be located in a jurisdiction that has this requirement and they package all razors that way.

It could be a country or state etc... passed a law with this requirement. Most websites have a cookie warning popup even US based ones, because it's a requirement from the EU.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I use disposable razors and they go in the trash can.

Thanks!

Yeah, mine do too. Maybe the bio-hazard bags were for the hair and skin cells?

 

[Bramblethorn]

I ordered a box of disposable razors online. Some cheap brand. Have ordered them before. This time, they came with hazardous waste bags. Say what? Since when?

I asked this on FB and a friend acted like I was an idiot and told me since AIDs. Really? I can't find anything about this online. I do see that single razor blades should be disposed of in a sharps container. But disposable razors either go in landfill or in rare cases can be recycled.

Anyone know for sure?

This is old, but unless it's been superseded, looks as if US OSHA rules do require disposable razors in a workplace to be treated as sharps, which would involve an appropriate biohazard-type container: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2005-03-28

That letter relates to nursing homes, and I expect other institutions like prisons would need something similar (with prisons also needing to make sure inmates don't repurpose the blades...) Probably a bigger concern than HIV there is hepatitis B, which spreads through shared razors, toothbrushes, etc.

I've never heard of such a rule being applied to households, but it's possible that the razors you're buying are also sold for institutional use and include a bag for that reason.

 

[Jada59]

This is old, but unless it's been superseded, looks as if US OSHA rules do require disposable razors in a workplace to be treated as sharps, which would involve an appropriate biohazard-type container: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2005-03-28

That letter relates to nursing homes, and I expect other institutions like prisons would need something similar (with prisons also needing to make sure inmates don't repurpose the blades...) Probably a bigger concern than HIV there is hepatitis B, which spreads through shared razors, toothbrushes, etc.

I've never heard of such a rule being applied to households, but it's possible that the razors you're buying are also sold for institutional use and include a bag for that reason.

Yeah, I did see that but they do things in hospitals and such that we don't have to do at home. Thanks!

 

[Jada59]

The manufacturer may be located in a jurisdiction that has this requirement and they package all razors that way.

It could be a country or state etc... passed a law with this requirement. Most websites have a cookie warning popup even US based ones, because it's a requirement from the EU.

That could be or... Maybe because it was a bulk buy, they assumed they'd be used in a hospital or something.

 

[FGB]

There must be fifty ways to get rid of a razor.

Kick 'em out the back Jack!
Throw them in the can Stan!
You don't have to gift them like toys Roy...

Just listen to me.

Leave them in the back of a bus Gus.

and so on!

Never feed me ice cream after 11:00PM

 

[Jada59]

There must be fifty ways to get rid of a razor.

Kick 'em out the back Jack!
Throw them in the can Stan!
You don't have to gift them like toys Roy...

Just listen to me.

Leave them in the back of a bus Gus.

and so on!

Never feed me ice cream after 11:00PM

Hehehe.

 

[Goldenfinger]

Call your local garbage company. They can dispose of sharps.

 

[Jada59]

Call your local garbage company. They can dispose of sharps.

No. They don't. We have to take them to certain pharmacies and pay for disposal.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Just throw them out with the rest of the trash. I doubt the razor police will come a knockin' at your door. Although, they will have a DNA sample, unless you dip them in bleach before you toss them, which would solve that bio-hazard dilemma.

 

[curioustxn]

We don't have a problem with getting rid of things like that in Texas. We have a disposal unit called a landfill.

"Hazardous waste bag", sounds like you live in one of the People's Republics on the left coast. Maybe you should move to a Free State.

 

[Bramblethorn]

We don't have a problem with getting rid of things like that in Texas. We have a disposal unit called a landfill.

"Hazardous waste bag", sounds like you live in one of the People's Republics on the left coast. Maybe you should move to a Free State.

Sounds like somebody's not good at reading.

The bag isn't a state ordinance, it's something the manufacturer is including with the order. If you order the same razors from Texas you'll still get a bag with them. And either way, as a private individual, you don't have to use it.

 

[naughtymind]

I can see it now, before long some people will make everything some sort of political statement. Better be careful what music you listen to, what clothes you buy, what restaurants you frequent, what kinds of food you eat, etc. Hardly sounds like freedom to me.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

I can see it now, before long some people will make everything some sort of political statement. Better be careful what music you listen to, what clothes you buy, what restaurants you frequent, what kinds of food you eat, etc. Hardly sounds like freedom to me.

“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.”

George Orwell 1984​

 

[Bramblethorn]

I can see it now, before long some people will make everything some sort of political statement. Better be careful what music you listen to, what clothes you buy, what restaurants you frequent, what kinds of food you eat, etc. Hardly sounds like freedom to me.

Too late. Every one of those things has been politicised for longer than any of us have been alive.

But if people think their freedoms are being oppressed by a razor manufacturer throwing in a bag that they don't have to use, all I can say is they're very confused about what "freedom" is.

 

[jehoram]

Sounds like somebody's not good at reading.

The bag isn't a state ordinance, it's something the manufacturer is including with the order. If you order the same razors from Texas you'll still get a bag with them. And either way, as a private individual, you don't have to use it.

It sounds like those old mattress and pillow tags that said "Not to be removed under penalty of law." It was meant for re-sellers, not customers. Now they all add the line "except by the consumer" but you still hear jokes about it.

 

[Jada59]

It sounds like those old mattress and pillow tags that said "Not to be removed under penalty of law." It was meant for re-sellers, not customers. Now they all add the line "except by the consumer" but you still hear jokes about it.

As a kid I was terrified of those tags. Always telling my parents not to cut them off.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

As a kid I was terrified of those tags. Always telling my parents not to cut them off.

Childhood... I never even noticed them until I was old enough to purchase my own bed(s). Before that, I was too busy reading or going outside to play. We didn't have video games. About the only game you could play by yourself was solitary and that got pretty boring, quickly.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It sounds like those old mattress and pillow tags that said "Not to be removed under penalty of law." It was meant for re-sellers, not customers. Now they all add the line "except by the consumer" but you still hear jokes about it.

I had a friend who wanted to get that warning tattooed on the back of his head.

 

[Lascivity]

In the UK needles need to go into a hazardous waste bin, which can be given to any pharmacy to dispose of. I don't believe the same is true for razors - you can chuck them in the bin if you want to, although it's a good idea to tape them up first so they don't inconvenience yr binman.