Walgreens Sharps Disposal Locations

This page reports what Walgreens's own pages said on that date, and what government pages say about pharmacies and sharps. We are not linked to Walgreens. We link only government pages, so we name Walgreens's pages here without a link. Store offers can change without notice, so call your store.

Walgreens's "Safe Medication Disposal" page, read on October 6, 2026, listed three options. All three are for medicines:

We searched the full page text for the words needle, syringe and sharps. None of them appeared. Walgreens's kiosk store finder, also read that day, lists stores that have a medication disposal kiosk. It did not mention sharps either.

A medicine kiosk is not a sharps drop box. Minnesota's pollution control agency warns against taking household sharps to the medicine drop boxes found at pharmacies or police stations. Bring sharps only to a place that says it takes sharps.

Some states and cities have pharmacy sharps programs. These are government pages, read on October 6, 2026:

• Boston: the city has a pharmacy syringe ordinance, and its public health commission lists the pharmacy drop-off sites.
• New York State: the state health department says pharmacies are among the places that offer syringe drop boxes.
• Mississippi: the state environmental agency runs free household sharps drop-off stations, and says most are at pharmacies and fire stations.

None of these pages tells you which chain or store takes part in your area. Call the store, or use the sharps disposal finder to see your county's official options.

South Dakota's natural resources agency wrote in January 2023 that sharps containers can be bought at pharmacies and stores, and named Walgreens as one. Our guide on where to get a sharps disposal container lists other ways, some of them free.

When a container fills up, go to sharps container disposal. To ship one instead, read about sharps mail-back programs.