Mail-Back Sharps
Mail Your Sharps, Inc. is a national provider of Mail-Back Sharps Disposal Systems, along with many other mail-back disposal and recycling services. Our programs are approved by the US Postal Service, and we comply with all federal and state regulations. Our mail-back programs are designed to be extremely convenient and economical. Our mail-back services are very simple and easy to use. Find out How It Works! After ordering, you simply fill the container, and then mail it for destruction using the pre-paid postage.
Mail-Back Sharps Key Features
Our mail-back disposal and recycling systems include everything you will need:
- The Container(s)
- Shipping Both Ways
- Easy Instructions
- All Packaging Materials Required
- Destruction of Container(s) at an EPA Approved and Permitted Facility
- Manifest/Proof of Destruction for Your Records
How Our Mail-Back Services Will Benefit You:
- Convenient
- No Extra or Hidden Fees
- No Contracts Required
- All-Inclusive Pricing
- Everything You Will Need is Included
- Order and Return Containers at Your Convenience
- Low-Cost
- No Expensive Transportation Fees
- Sending Only Containers that are Full
- Pre-paid Postage
- Safe and Secure
- Each System is Assigned a Unique Permit by the USPS
- Once the Waste has been Destroyed, You Receive a Certificate of Destruction
- Third-Party Tracking Verification for Containers
Now Offering SolmeteX Dental Amalgam Separators
Mail Your Sharps, Inc. is proud to announce that we are now distributing SolmeteX Dental Amalgam Separators. The EPA is encouraging dentists to utilize amalgam separators now, in preparation for new dental amalgam regulations that take effect in 2012. We now supply economical and user friendly Dental Amalgam Separators in multiple sizes, as well as replacement collection containers that include recycling.
The Need for a Biohazard Spill Kit
There are occupational hazards present in every profession, and the possibility of infection from bloodborne pathogens is a risk that spans all lines of work. Bloodborne pathogens are disease-causing microorganisms present in human blood, such as the hepatitis B virus (HBV) or the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Exposure to any materials potentially contaminated with human blood or other bodily fluids is a serious health hazard, and is stringently regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency under the United States Department of Labor.
New EPA Amalgam Regulations Take Effect in 2012
It is estimated that dental amalgam contributes to over half of the mercury waste entering POTWs (Publicly Owned Treatment Works). When a separator is not used and amalgam fillings are drilled, the amalgam waste that is produced is flushed with wastewater into the sewer systems. Traces of mercury contained within the amalgam can then leach into groundwater and into the environment. Typically it settles in the aquatic ecosystem, where it accumulates in high concentrations, and eventually contaminates plants and animals faster than it can be naturally reduced. Over time, animals farther up the food chain inevitably consume contaminated plants and smaller animals resulting in a process known as mercury biomagnification, in which the concentrations of mercury increase significantly.