It is, to many of us, quite straightforward. Use a sharps bin and ensure that this is securely located away from curious little hands, in a place from where it will not get knocked or tipped etc.

So now we have sharps bins in many additional locations, in public toilets, some gardens and church yards, back alleys and other drug hot spots, gyms, and now in the local KFC restaurant!

No wonder that a young mum was shocked when her daughter went to the toilet while enjoying her finger lickin’ chicken, to find a sharps bin on the floor of this Brighton KFC restaurant! Ironically having an orange lid, yet inevitably to be used by IV drug  users thus to collect syringes having, in the eyes of the Environment Agency, an environmentally harmful drug residue even if empty – though I can’t imagine a user wasting a single drop.

Credit to KFC for addressing a real and very serious problem in such a positive way. However, while that sharps bin sits on the floor it is a temptation to youngsters and others, keen to use it as a general refuse bin or curious to root inside to see what they might find. And all they will get is a sharps injury.

Just go a few steps further please. A properly wall mounted secure sharps bin would be far more appropriate, inherently safer, and less obvious to those who just want their picture in the local paper.