Notes: Drop-off Location: Pharmacy, Monday-Friday, 10am-7pm, Saturday and Sunday, 9am-5:30pm. Sharps must be in a sharps container.
Effective August 26, 2010, all retailers, medical offices, hospitals and veterinarian clinics, and other providers that dispense sharps to the general public in the City of Sacramento must provide a sharps collection and disposal program at their locations at no additional cost to the general public. Chapter 8.128 of the Sacramento City Code provides more information regarding home-generated sharps waste management.
It is against the law in the state of California to dispose of sharps in the household trash.