{"id":250979,"date":"2024-05-15T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/how-medical-sharps-disposal-came-to-oklahoma\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:52:47","slug":"how-medical-sharps-disposal-came-to-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/how-medical-sharps-disposal-came-to-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"How Medical Sharps Disposal Came To Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> Our friends at the Product Stewardship Institute recently helped the state of Oklahoma solve its medical sharps disposal dilemma. They graciously agreed to share their lessons learned and actions you can take to handle medical sharps safely in your community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Medical sharps, such as needles and syringes, are convenient devices used by millions to safely self-inject medications outside of healthcare settings, often to treat conditions like diabetes. More than 8 million US residents are prescribed self-injecting medications, generating as many as 3 billion needles per year.<\/p>\n<p>Although medical sharps are life-saving devices for millions of Americans, when needles are flushed or trashed, they pose grave health and safety risks to residents, sanitation workers, sewage treatment plant operators, waste management personnel, and hospitality workers.<\/p>\n<p>Finding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\/how-to-recycle\/how-medical-sharps-disposal-came-to-oklahoma\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at earth911.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Our friends at the Product Stewardship Institute recently helped the state of Oklahoma solve its medical sharps disposal dilemma. They graciously agreed to share their lessons learned and actions you can take to handle medical sharps safely in your community. Medical sharps, such as needles and syringes, are convenient devices used by millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":250980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Medical Sharps Disposal Came To Oklahoma - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\/how-to-recycle\/how-medical-sharps-disposal-came-to-oklahoma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Medical Sharps Disposal Came To Oklahoma\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editor\u2019s Note: Our friends at the Product Stewardship Institute recently helped the state of Oklahoma solve its medical sharps disposal dilemma. 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