hi I'm Christel from Diabetes Strong if you use a Dexcom G6 continuous
glucose monitor or CGM you'll probably notice that
it generates a lot of trash including this the inserter
so when I started the product the first thing I looked for was
how to recycle your Dexcom G6 inserter because quite frankly the amount of
trash hurts my soul honestly there's not a lot of this that
can be recycled but let me show you how to take this
apart and how to recycle the parts that can be recycled
and what you do with the rest the Dexcom G6 inserter is technically a sharps
container in the sense in here is the needle which is the sharps
so sharps is a medical term for anything that can puncture or
cut skin some people will throw this one directly in trash that's not
allowed everywhere though and you should never throw it in the
recycling bin a sharps container cannot go in the recycling bin
so just as you shouldn't throw your infusion sets your syringes
your pen needles directly in the trash you want to think about how to dispose
of your inserter so I made a whole video on how to
dispose of sharps I'll leave a link to that down below
if you're interested check that out one option for disposing of your
G6 inserter is just to collect all your inserters
and then drop them off at a sharps collection facility
that's great that's a great idea I did that in the beginning however
they're large and once you have a whole bag of those it takes up space
so here's what I do instead this is all you need to take your inserter apart
you need a plier and you need a screwdriver first
order of action is to get the inserter open
so you want to find somewhere along this edge
where you can get your screwdriver in
it could take a little bit of work to find the right place there we go
I just want to get those I want to get it separated
almost got it
not yet
there we go so now the pieces are apart put that one there again take your plier
and pull out the metal put that aside a little drum here
grab the metal
put these plastic parts aside
these are all your sharps see that first I pull that apart
my pliers pull out the needle here that aside
watch out you don't prick yourself on the needle
there you go we just took took it apart so we have three piles now
this is sharps that goes in the sharp container be careful you don't
prick your finger in that that's the metal that's
all that goes in the recycle bin all this is plastic
plastic can usually be recycled however these plastic pieces do not have the
recycling mark on them you can reach out to your local recycle
store recycle facility and ask if they take it
most will not next I'll take my sharps put those in my
sharps container I want to be careful with that
that's it that's how you do that that's how you take apart a Dexcom G6
inserter just be careful when you take it apart
that you don't cut yourself on the needle
for me taking it apart just means that I don't have to store
large amounts of Dexcom inserters or go somewhere and drop them off
it also means I can recycle at least a little
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