Clinical Waste Collection Service

The Council provides a clinical waste collection and disposal service for residents who live in their own home and have medical conditions which generate waste that must be disposed of under controlled conditions.

The service is provided to enable individual residents to continue living in their own homes.

We do not provide a service for residents of private residential homes, healthcare professionals (pharmacists, GPs, dentists, clinics and such like.), private residential homes, tattooists or any other commercial organisation. Neither do we provide any service to collect clinical waste or sharps items (needles, syringes and so on) which have been discarded on private land or the public highway.

Strict confidentiality is maintained on the details of individuals receiving this service. Access to the service is through referral by a GP, Community Nurse or hospital clinic only.

Please note, the terms for receiving our service are as follows:

We can only accept people who are physically unable, through age, disability or infirmity, to return their used sharps boxes to their GP, clinic or the source through which they were prescribed
We cannot accept incontinence items (bed-pads, nappies, diapers and such like) or used swabs and dressings for disposal as clinical waste, unless the patient has an infectious disease
We do not provide service users with sharps containers. Containers must be provided by the healthcare person or organisation which supplies the service user’s medicines or syringes
All service users will need to undergo an annual registration process to continue to receive our service