The Orange Board of Health accepts sealed sharps containers for exchange at 62 Cheney Street offices. Please call ahead to schedule a drop off time. Residents may receive 1 new container in exchange, free of charge. This program is for residential use only.
Call 978-544-1107 to schedule a sharps exchange in Orange. You must be a resident of a member town to use the Orange, MA sharps program.
Member Towns and Sharps Disposal Program Details are as follows:
- The Solid Waste District provides free one quart or one gallon sharps boxes to residents who use needles and lancets.
- Once a sharps box is full, you can bring it to one of eight Franklin County locations, and pick up an empty sharps box to take home.
- This program is open to residents of :
- Bernardston
- Buckland
- Charlemont
- Colrain
- Conway
- Deerfield
- Erving
- Gill
- Greenfield
- Hawley
- Heath
- Leverett
- Montague
- New Salem
- Northfield
- Orange
- Rowe
- Shelburne
- Sunderland
- Warwick
- Wendell
- Whately.
- There is no charge to residents for use of the program. You may use whichever collection site is most convenient for you.
Safe disposal of sharps protects recycling and trash collection workers, as well as family members of sharps users. Help us prevent unintended needle sticks - use our sharps collection program from now on.