Originally Posted by 5moose
Save an empty prescription bottle (you know...the amber colored ones) in your sewing room for old...dull...bent...broken needles and pins. When the bottle is full just throw away the entire bottle. That way no needles or pins directly in the garbage.
As I read on this site...if you use insulin you probably have an orange container for disposal of all sharpes...that would include broken needles and pins.
Funny thing is, I was using the pill bottle until I just read that hint. Silly olde lady!