Table 2.

Primary locations for disposal of used syringes among a sample of people who inject drugs before and after the opening of a supervised injecting facility in Copenhagen, Denmark ( n  = 41)

Disposal mechanism/site	Before SIF opened n (%)	After SIF opened n (%)
Returned to the needle exchange (or SIF)	14 (34.1)	36 (87.8)
Put them in an outdoors sharps container	19 (46.3)	8 (19.5)
Put them in their own sharps container	11 (26.8)	6 (14.6)
Threw them in the garbage	23 (56.1)	5 (12.2)
Dropped them on the ground	5 (12.2)	0 (0.0)
Gave them to another user	2 (4.9)	0 (0.0)
Flushed them down the toilet	4 (9.8)	0 (0.0)
Other	3 (7.3)	0 (0.0)

Note: n’s do not sum to 41 and proportions do not sum to 100% because participants may have identified more than one location as primary site of used syringe disposal.

Note: all data collected between February and August, 2013.