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7 <br /> Bourne and Sandwich altogether. <br /> Ms. Warden suggested that if they had one company come in and ask the <br /> people where they were from, check off the town and bill accordingly. <br /> Mr. Darrington added than that was what Ms. Lopes thought would <br /> happen. There would be four boxes for each town to take care of the <br /> disposal. He asked Dr. Mantel to speak to the pharmacies. Dr* Mantel <br /> carne back with the response that the pharmacies weren't really going to <br /> speak with the board because of liability reasons. So what he did was <br /> speak with his buddies down in the hospitals in Florida. He got an idea <br /> based on the population and horn many Sharps are used per person. His <br /> numbers were based on that population, this would include the transients <br /> that come for summer and that one in fifty people are diabetic. Diabetics <br /> use three Sharps per day. Just for diabetics alone, if you do the one in <br /> fifty ratio on a 20,000 people population it would be four hundred and forty <br /> thousand Sharps per year. You are talking a half million Sharps per year. <br /> He broke it down even further. He took that half million divided it by 365 <br /> days and by 50 Sharps per one and one half wart container. He guessed <br /> at hover many Sharps would fit in it. It would end up that if they had <br /> everyone at this event it would be about $35,000.00 per year for disposal. <br /> That would be 100% participation. But, right now from the other towns <br /> that have Sharps disposal programs they have a 5 to 6 % participation. <br /> Ultimately they were looking at $2,000.00 per year. <br /> Mr. Santos stated that it was the same participati <br />