Excellent! A proper application of modeling skills.

Super glue them to the edges of those old CDs you'd get from America Online to make homemade ninja throwing stars... 

I always just dull up the edge with a file. It only takes a few seconds to make the blade no sharper than a butter knife. 

Hi cwalker3 ;

 I very seldom throw them away .At least till I get my use out of them .I will resharpen them with a jig I made long before that re-sharpening tool came out .I will usually resharpen them twice .

 Than I Put on my safety glasses on and inside a large glass bowl turned upside down I break them up with Vise-grips then , to the landfill .    Tanker - Builder

I re-use my blades like Don does, rotating them through brand-new use, then a long life as a utility blade.  I haven't had to throw any out yet.  I use cough drop or breath mint tins to store them in my tool box.  But the collection can idea is a good one.

This topic reminds me of the razor blade slot built into medicine cabinets, back in the day.  I don't know that anyone ever filled one up, but I know of some folks who were renovating an old house and found the stash of old blades when they removed an old medicine cabinet.

Well this is how I do it at home and how we are doing it here at my work:

1. Take empty METAL paint can. 1 litre or so works fine.

2. Make "coin slot" to the lid

3. Close the lid tightly

4. Drop used blades, needles etc. through the coin slot.

5. When the can is full close the slot tightly with small piece of tape.

6. Put the whole can to metal recycling.

That keeps all the sharp objects in and you don´t put any inappropriate material to metal recycling like you do if you use plastic or glass can.

My wife uses 20 litre metal paint cans when she tosses away old springs, nails and staples from dissembled upholsteries 

Drink coffee? A coffee container would make a great sharps container.

In a sense I do a limited amount of recycling myself.  I have a scalpel and three X-acto handles on my bench.  The handles are all different so I can tell them apart.  I put my newest blade in one knife, passing the old one down to knife #2, and the old blade from that down to #3.  I use the scalpel for decals and other soft stuff.  X-acto #1 is my main cutting blade.  I use #2 for cutting PE, and #3 for seam scraping.  That way I get a lot of use out of each blade before it goes in the trash.  Around here they don't want very small stuff in the metal recycle so I stick them in something and put them in the trash.

Thanks everyone. To the landfill we go then.

i even recycle the metal box of desktop computer power supply minus everything in the box if the power supply is to be scrapped.

here we get 3 bins for recycling, paper/cardboard, metal/plastic/styrofoam & food waste.

I do here but never thought of that. They are picky at what you can drop in the recycle bin. For example they don't  want clothing hangers, metal or plastic or even plastic bags.

i guess none of you guys have metal recycling bin along with your garbage pickup like we do here in Ontario, Canada as that is where i dump mine?

Mopar Madness

You can store them in an old aspirin bottle or medication bottle, then peel off the label and throw it in the garbage after you’ve collected enough to fill it. 

 

I peel off the label from my BP med and toss it once it’s full. 

I use an old metal black pepper can. When it gets full I'll tape it up and pitch it.

I got that idea from another modeler here on the forums.

Or you can just encase them in lead, cover them in concrete and bury them in your backyard.  YMMV.  

Gary

Great idea that'll do for me 

I tape them up and toss in trash. I could care less where it goes from there. Not my problem. We pay enough for garbage fees and city issued garbage bags we have to pay for. 

You can store them in an old aspirin bottle or medication bottle, then peel off the label and throw it in the garbage after you’ve collected enough to fill it. 

Noah

If you have a piece of styrofoam you can stick them in that, then tape them into it and it will keep them from poking anyone.  You can also, if they aren't to bad, re-sharpen them with some sandpaper and save a quick buck. :)

 

 

Ha! I have a little block of stryofoam with every blade I've changed since I started back in the hobby, in 2013. I guess one of these days I'll have to toss them. When the day comes, taping them up in the block is a good idea, thanks.

Toss them.  I doubt the people at the landfill worry about "sharp" objects as there are sharp objects all around!  If you want, put them in a plastic jug (like an empty laundry detergent bottle) and dispose of them that way.  That's what I do with my diabetic syringes.

Or you can just encase them in lead, cover them in concrete and bury them in your backyard.  YMMV. 

Gary

If you have a piece of styrofoam you can stick them in that, then tape them into it and it will keep them from poking anyone.  You can also, if they aren't to bad, re-sharpen them with some sandpaper and save a quick buck. :)