Just kind of curious. How do you guys dispose of your blades? Blade bank, homemade or purchased? Trash? Or like me, the wall of my house via the little slot in the medicine cabinet.
I use the back of a DE/SS Razor blade dispense. When it's full I wrap it with duct tape or shipping tape which ever one is handy and put it in the commercial trash dumpster outside our condo. Before moved to our condo, I used the slot in the medicine cabinet . Like you use.
Took a tall thin cookie tin, cut a slot in the lid, glued the lid down and I think it is almost half full after 5 years.
I use a plastic container that held breath mints. Cost nothing since my grandkids eat my mints like candy. Got one almost filled up that I'll wrap in heavy tape and toss.
Having been born a smart-alec, my first impulse is to say "apples", but someone is bound to take me seriously. Actually, I store them in an old prescription bottle for disposal. Our town has a sharps disposal container at the police station, so when the prescription bottle is full I empty it into that. Since we live alone, and even our youngest grandchild is school age, there's no safety issue.
I do what most think is crazy .... re-wrap it in its original paper and snap it three times and toss it in the garbage. Not nearly as dangerous as the broken glass you dump in the garbage.
When I joined TSD sometime in 2010, there was a thread similar to this thread. The best solution for me was to grab a can of broth, punch a knife into the center, drain the broth for another use, and rinse the can out. I am still using the same can. I figure it is about 3/4 full now. The purpose of the broth can is that the can is easier to rinse clean, whereas a soup can has particulates that can stay behind and rot, and therefore permeate your shaveden with funky odors. Another benefit is that the entire unit is steel, so recycling is a valid option.
Metal blade bank and then recycle. After remodeling a bathroom and having several hundred razor blades to contend with I vowed to never do that to the next person who decides to redo the wall.
I use the back of a plastic blade dispenser. When full, I rotate to the front or top side. Once they are in there so snug they don't move, I toss in the recycling.
I make my own blade bank out of two empty K-cups. It lasts a pretty long time before I have to toss it, and only takes a very small amount of space in my medicine cabinet. If you want something a little bigger, Jello snack-pack containers would work very well.
I've never actually done this, but have seen it done. Looks relatively easy. I would probably feel the same way after opening a wall. I've seen pictures. The house is 40 years old, so there is a possibility that there are already some there, or not.