This is something that I made about a year ago and I have used it just about everyday since. I go through quite a bit of exacto knife blades but throwing them away used to be a problem. I can’t throw them straight into the garbage because first of all it would/could cut the garbage bag and secondly because if I, or someone else, was trying to find something in the garbage they could slice their hand with the used exacto blades in there. To fix this problem I just used a film canister as an exacto blade trash can.
All I did was take a film canister and superglue the lid to it so it should never come off. Then I took my exacto knife and cut a slice in the lid. This is the slot that I stick the old blades in. I then wrote on the canister “Do not open” and stuff like that so no one accidentally opens and spills them all.
That is it. Extremely simple, but much safer than just throwing the blades right into the trash. I also put snap off blade pieces in the canister.
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