Non Acceptable Items
Empty needles and syringes as well as uncapped/unsealed needles and syringes (with and without medicine) are not accepted at City Hall. Residential needles, lancets and empty syringes are accepted at both mobile and year-round Ramsey County Collection sites.
Transport these items in an empty laundry detergent bottle or other closed container with a screw on lid and label the container "needles". You will be asked to place the container in the collection bin yourself. Uncapped or unsealed syringes with medicine are are also accepted this way. Capped or sealed syringes with medicine should be brought to a county medicine collection site.
For more information on how and where to dispose of items not accepted at City Hall please visit
Ramsey County Hazardous Waste.
For information on needles and syringes may be found at www.ramseyrecycles.com/hhw.