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| | Sharps Program
NEW SHARPS DISPOSAL LEGISLATIONAs of September 1, 2008, home-generated hypodermic needles cannot go into the trash.   
Don't let the sharps attack!
Sharps - such as home-generated hypodermic needles - should be kept out of your residential waste container.
Many Folsom pharmacies accept sharps free of charge. They must be in an approved container, which will be supplied to you at no cost by these pharmacies:
| CVS/Longs Drugs | 1005 East Bidwell St. | 983-5366 | | CVS/Longs Drugs | 9479 Madison Ave. | 987-0382 | | CVS/Longs Drugs | 2790 East Bidwell St. | 983-8774 | | Rite Aid | 526 East Bidwell St. | 984-7749 | | Savon Drugs | 1003 East Bidwell St. | 983-4084 | | Safeway | 1850 Prairie City Rd. | 608-2455 | If your pharmacy is not listed, call first for its acceptance policy.
Important facts:
Sharps include lancets, hypodermic needles, syringes and scalpel blades. They are used by people with medical conditions such as insulin-dependent diabetes.
Sharps can be contaminated by hepatitis, HIV, tetanus and other diseases.
Sharps can injure family members and can be a hazard to the workers collecting and sorting waste and recyclables.
All Folsom Fire Stations are collection points for used sharps. You can get empty sharps containers from them too! They only accept sharps if they are staffed...i.e., if they are out on an emergeny call then they will not accept sharps. Please do not leave abandoned sharps at Fire Stations. Doing so is illegal.
| Fire Station 35 | 535 Glenn Drive | 984-2280 | | Fire Station 36 | 9700 Oak Avenue Parkway (near Baldwin Dam Road) | 984-2280 | | Fire Station 37 | 70 Clarksville Road (near E. Bidwell and Clarksville | 984-2280 | | Fire Station 38 | 1300 Blue Ravine Road (by Oak Avenue Parkway) | 984-2280 |
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