Talk:Sharps container

Wrong idea
Re-using of needles is not a common practice in underdeveloped countries the same way it's not common practice in the so-called developed countries.

Disposal of needles are enforced everywhere today but, if someone don't do it, it's not a matter of WHERE the wrongdoer resides, but more an exception in the general rule. Developed countries are not free from doing it, reusing needles. If someone claim that re-using of needles is a common practice among underdeveloped countries, without a clear and certain proof of it or source, I think we've a clear cut case of prejudice against peoples and nations here.


 * Your rules don't apply in Jagd. If a nation hasn't received medical technology--including training to use other technology, such as modern handling standards for needles--then it will practice as it sees fit.  Needles were invented and used before blood-borne disease was understood; between being expensive and thus non-disposable and being sterilized by alcohol or other agents, the practice of reusing needles was accepted for reasons of inadequately-evolved medical technology extending as far as simply undeveloped methods for controlling disease.  Our technology has evolved to include these handling methods; underdeveloped countries are underdeveloped because they lack access to technology, such as medical technology, including an understanding and practice of handling methods for biological hazards.


 * In many developing countries, both apply. Some syringes cost 3 cents per; auto-disable syringes cost twice as much, and used to cost even more.  Doctors in poorer countries have routinely switched the needle tip and *reused the syringe*, which is dangerous and disease-spreading.  In some cases, this is done when syringes are sufficiently affordable, because the common practice *has been* to change the needle tip, and the doctors believe that is sufficient.  Until both problems are fixed, the problem persists. Both problems are economic. --John Moser (talk) 18:17, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

De-notching is not defined
Web searches provide a lot of material suggesting de-notching is possible, is not performed, or is a feature available on a particular product; however, nothing explains what de-notching means. The term is meaningless to a non-professional. --John Moser (talk) 18:08, 5 September 2016 (UTC)