Do you use a blade bank?

[SlyintheOC]

I use the back side of the blade "box". I've seen the banks and thought about buying one but the last time I tried to order from West Coast Shaving (the only place I found them), they were out of stock.

The vitamin bottle idea sounds good and it comes free with the vitamins.

[waine]

Somehow a metal blade bank is more appropriate from a re cycling point of view than a plastic one.  The poor waste recycling employees who sort out the plastic from the steel will have a tough time if a plastic container is filled with blades.

@Bucksfan, some nice pics there, thanks for sharing.

[Ming the Merciless]

Perhaps this problem of disposal is being over-thought?  But I have no dog in this fight.

Antediluvian Ming still uses injector blades (remember them?) and the injector has a slot in its back for the old blade.  Problem solved.

Who says new things are better things in all ways?

[mahaw90]

When the tin gets full, where do you put them? In the bin? If so, that could get dangerous! I just wrap my blade in abit of tissue and place in the bin.

[medpsy82]

I know this is an old thread, but I thought I would mention something. I use Wilkinson Sword blades and the container that houses them has a slit in the back/bottom side to put the used blades in. When the blades are all used there is a cardboard piece that separates the used from the top. I wonder if other packages from different brads have the same thing?

[Bald Weasel]

On this topic, but not helpful to it, I remember they tore down an old Hotel here in Tampa a few years ago.
One of the things that stuck out in my mind was the demo guys saying how many DE razors there were in the
wreckage. A older gentleman that was near the site piped up and said, "Back in the day before these plastic thingies, there was a slot in the wall of the hotel room for old razor blades."
Apparently, 70 years of razor blades in a 20 story building equates to A WHOLE DAMN LOT of razors in the walls!!
I don't wanna sift through the rubble. LoL!!
Keith

[mahaw90]

Just found this http://bit.ly/OwMvFE pricey though.

[mahaw90]

There's a few on eBay actually

[Fourseamer]

I have used blade banks for years. I have used real blade banks and have also made my own from all kinds of containers like, pipe tobacco tins, Altoids tins, baking powder tins.............

[BillOnBass]

I never really thought to have a blade bank until reading this thread, but it definitely makes sense.  I'm not trying to have one of my razors cut open a trash bag and get trash juice everywhere when I take it to the dump   I recycle also so that'll be easy to do.  I've been using a soup can without a lid for the past couple months.  Looks like it'll take about 5 years or more to get anywhere close to full, haha.

[theman]

Back in the day the medicine cabinet in the bathroom used to have a slot for used blades.

Started one again, fresh day , old blades !  Lot cheaper to , good trip !   

[theman]

This item is gonna come in handy now that went the DE    Great advice !

[greatnessinc]

Back in school what I'd do to dispose of old exacto knife blades is wrap them in a piece of painters tape (the cheap blue stuff).

[Sir Harry]

I've been using a Ziploc bag....Now that I live alone, no worrying about snoopy kids/wives touching my stuff by mistake 

[Switchy]

old coffee can hole cut in top lid duck tapped on