Rotary blade disposal
#23
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Location: Anchorage, AK
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This company will accept your used blades and give you a discount on your purchase of new ones. check their website under the "exchange" tab to get more info. Even if they don't give a discount I'm sure they'd accept your used ones.
http://www.lpsharp.com/
Also - keep a few handy to use for cutting paper, etc.
http://www.lpsharp.com/
Also - keep a few handy to use for cutting paper, etc.
#24
Rotary Blade disposal
I find it hard to believe that quilters would just toss the used blades in the trash - we have enough disposal problems now! My usual pharmacy is very good about accepting the old blades but I do keep them in a container until I have several, and I also add dull sewing machine needles and pins that have lost their heads. I just take them along when I return a container of used diabetic syringes.
#25
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Join Date: Dec 2012
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I keep an empty small cat food can in my sewing drawer. All old blades and needles go in it. When it has a bunch, I put it in a sandwich bag and throw it out. This way there is no danger of the blades cutting thru the trash bags. Even a dull blade is very sharp!
#26
This company will accept your used blades and give you a discount on your purchase of new ones. check their website under the "exchange" tab to get more info. Even if they don't give a discount I'm sure they'd accept your used ones.
http://www.lpsharp.com/
Also - keep a few handy to use for cutting paper, etc.
http://www.lpsharp.com/
Also - keep a few handy to use for cutting paper, etc.
#27
Remember the slits in the bathroom walls for men to dispose their used razor blades? My grandparents lived in an old Victorian downtown house and I use to be fascinated with that slit. Where did the blades go? What else was in there? A mystery in a old big house for a little girl to ponder.
#29
I put my blades/bent pins/needles/etc. in an empty Altoids tin. I then toss when full into the metals only dumpster at the transfer station. We do not have curbside trash pick-up. We go to the transfer station aka "dump".
#30
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dakotas
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