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Drug Disposal Safety and Medical Waste Information

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DEA Guidelines

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Henderson County Sheriff's Office

Do you have expired or unused medications?


The Sheriff’s Office provides citizens with a free, environmentally safe, and convenient way to dispose of unused or expired medications from their homes, reducing the possibility of accidental or intentional misuse and/or theft.    

Drug Disposal Program Information

What you can bring

  • Prescription pills
  • Capsules
  • Ointments
  • Vitamins
  • Liquids in their original containers
  • Inhalers & patches 

Location and hours

Henderson County Sheriff’s Office Lobby 

100 North Grove Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792 


Monday-Friday 8am-5pm 

Check in at the front desk for instructions

Sharps Disposal

Residents of Henderson County can safely dispose of used sharps at the Convenience Center by following these four easy steps:


  1. Store used sharps in an empty rigid plastic container, like a milk jug or laundry detergent bottle. Be sure to retain the cap.
  2. Replace the cap when you are done filling the container and securely fasten it with tape.
  3. Label the outside of the container in permanent marker, noting that the contents are “used sharps.”
  4. Find an attendant to handle the container at the recycling center.


Simply bring your closed container to the Convenience Center, located at 265 Convenience Center Drive, Hendersonville, NC 28791 off of Stoney Mountain Road. Due to the nature of this type of material, it is imperative that any time you recycle a container of used sharps, you should find a staff person to receive it. Hours of operation are Monday-Friday from 8:00am until 4:30pm. This program is free and open to residents of Henderson County only.

2022 Medication Take-Back Events

Date: Friday, 09/23/2022

Times: 10am to 1pm

Location: Etowah United Community Bank - 50 United Bank Dr. Etowah,

N.C. 28729


Date: Saturday, 10/15/2022

Times: 9am to 11am

Location: Village of Flat Rock Town Hall - 110 Village Center Dr. Flat

Rock, N.C. 28731


Date: Saturday, 10/29/2022

Times: 10am to 2pm

Location: Henderson County (NC) Sheriff’s Office – 100 N. Grove St.

Hendersonville, N.C. 28792-5027

Lock Your Meds

Safely store your medications

Lock Your Meds® is a national multi-media campaign produced by National Family Partnership®(NFP). It is designed to reduce prescription drug abuse by making adults aware that they are the “unwitting suppliers” of prescription medications being used in unintended ways, especially by young people. Contact us for lock boxes, bags and bottles to keep your medications secure and out of the wrong hands.

Medical Waste FAQs

Please contact us if you cannot find an answer to your question.

The medical waste rules do not prohibit anyone from disposing of used syringes by putting them in the regular trash bin or dumpster provided that the sharps are kept in a thick, hard-walled plastic container with a cap or lid. Home, office or institutional generators should always contact their local solid waste authority (may be city or county) to make sure that there are no local ordinances against this practice.


For businesses, the Solid Waste Section considers any pharmaceutical waste that is not RCRA restricted to be general solid waste and can be disposed of in the regular trash. For residences, many counties have a drop box where residents may bring their unwanted pharmaceuticals for disposal. You can search for drop locations here. It is no longer recommended that unwanted pharmaceuticals be disposed by flushing down a commode.


Medical waste is often referred to as hazardous waste when it should more properly be referred to as biohazardous waste to distinguish it from chemical hazardous waste. These are two separate regulatory structures that can be confused when a biohazard is inaccurately labelled a hazardous waste. Medical wastes come under the authority of the state’s medical waste rules and chemical wastes are under the authority of the Hazardous Waste Section.


NC Medical waste rules are promulgated at the state level. Hazardous waste regulations come from the federal level. Hazardous waste transport, storage and disposal rules are more stringent than those for medical waste in North Carolina. Hazardous chemical wastes pose a bigger threat to human health and the environment. Therefore, the hazardous waste rules would take precedence.

If the regulated medical waste cannot be safely separated from the chemical hazardous wastes then it is best to treat the entire load as hazardous waste.

Whether the load is incinerated at a hazardous waste incinerator or land filled at a hazardous waste land fill, both of these methods exceed the NC medical waste requirements for disposal.


Unless the vaccines are in some way still infectious and can cause disease, they are considered non-regulated medical waste and may be disposed of with the regular trash.


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