Where do all of the needles and other disposable sharps go after they get put into the sharps containers in hospitals?

Question

Where do all of the needles and other disposable sharps go after they get put into the sharps containers in hospitals?

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Answer 1

Typically such potentially hazardous bio waste would be taken to a processing facility where it would be put through an autoclave, a device that cooks it with high pressure steam to destroy any biological hazards. At that point it can be sent to a landfill as normal.