How to Dispose of Sex Toys?

How to Dispose of a Vibrator?

The mighty vibrator is one of the favorite sex toys people use. It can be a bullet vibrator, a wand vibrator, or any luxury vibe, but eventually, it may break down and need to be replaced. Most quality rechargeable vibrators are encased in luxurious silicone and ABS plastic, but they have batteries and electronic components inside, the same as the remote controller.

The responsible route is to disassemble the toy, remove the batteries and electronic components, and place these in the e-waste bin for proper recycling. The silicone coating will unfortunately have to go to the wastebasket, or you can check with your local recycling facility if they have a silicone recycling program.

How to Dispose of Silicone Sex Toys?

Silicone is easy to sterilize and reuse, so you don’t have to throw away all your silicone toys. For example, you can boil your silicone butt plugs and sterilize them with bleach, and reuse them. However, if you need to get rid of silicone, it is a bit trickier.

Silicone is not easy to recycle, but some companies do recycle silicone products. You have to check with your local recycling facilities to see if they accept silicone products. If you wish to avoid unpleasant situations, you can cut the silicone dildo or butt plug into smaller pieces, place them in a bag and take them to be recycled.

How to Dispose of Dildos?

Dildos that are made from TPE/TPR, rubber, and jelly materials can’t be recycled, and these will, unfortunately, have to go directly into the general waste bin. To avoid embarrassment, you can wrap your TPE dildos in a soft plastic bag with a seal and then throw them away.

If you have a PVC dildo, then you can throw it in the plastic recycling bin (the yellow one). The color of the material is essential here, as black dildos can’t be recycled, as the color prevents the machines from sorting the material.

How to Dispose of Glass Sex Toys?

Glass toys are one of the easiest to clean and maintain, so you can boil, bleach, and sterilize your glass toys and never throw them away. However, glass is an infinitely recyclable material, and almost all communities have glass recycling facilities.

That means you can quickly dispose of your glass dildo or glass but plug if you don’t want them anymore or you have a cracked glass sex toy. To avoid embarrassment, you can take a cloth bag and a hammer and bash the glass toy, turn it into dust, and then place it in the glass recycling bin, and be careful not to hurt yourself in the process.

How to Dispose of Metal Sex Toys?

Metal sex toys like metal dildos and metal butt plugs are one of the most long-lived sex toys you can own. These are durable, can withstand heavy-duty cleaning, and won’t crack if dropped. However, if you decide to get rid of your metal sex toy, you can do this by taking your metal sex toy to the recycling depot. We also need to mention that nipple clamps, weighted dildos, metal handcuffs, spreader bars, and bondage chains also fall under the metal sex toy category.

How to Dispose of Leather Sex Toys?

There are very few leather sex toys, but there are a lot of leather BDSM tools and implements that you may use, like leather bondage collars, leather harnesses, leather floggers, whips, leather straps, and more. You can dispose of leather products by taking them to your local recycling facility that deals in such products, as there are several ways to recycle and reuse old leather products.

How to Dispose of Nylon Sex Toys?

Like leather, nylon is also very prevalent in various sex toys, like strap-on harnesses, nylon bondage ropes, nylon handcuffs and bed restraints, sex slings, and many other implements. To dispose of such products, you need to take them to a professional recycling company, as most nylon blends are recyclable and can be melted down into pellets to be used for other products. However, you’ll need to remove all metal parts like O and D-rings, karabiners, and buckles and take them to the metal recycling facility.