BD Gardian Sharps Containers

The BD Gardian line focuses on one job done reliably: safe containment and disposal of used needles, syringes, and other sharps. For any facility building a sharps disposal protocol, the questions that matter are entry design, capacity, mounting compatibility, and safeguarding against reach-in injuries — and this collection is chosen with those priorities in mind.

Both containers here share a 5.4-quart capacity with a horizontal entry design, a format well suited to countertop and wall-mounted use where clinicians deposit sharps from the side rather than the top. The BD Gardian Sharps Container 305443 features a counter-balanced lid that helps control the opening and limits exposure to the container's contents during disposal. The BD Gardian Sharps Container 305444 is molded from durable polypropylene in a pearl finish (11-7/10 x 16-3/5 x 4.5 in.), a puncture-resistant shell built to hold up through a full fill cycle. Both ship non-sterile, as expected for waste-disposal containers.

Horizontal-entry units like these are commonly selected for exam rooms, phlebotomy stations, and mobile carts because the side opening keeps the deposit point at a comfortable, visible height and discourages overfilling. When you're standardizing across rooms, matching a single capacity and entry style — as this 5.4-quart pairing does — simplifies staff training and restocking.

These containers are part of the broader BD range of clinical and safety products. If your protocols also involve safety-engineered injection and blood collection devices, explore BD Eclipse shielded needles and BD Luer-Lok syringes, which pair naturally with a compliant sharps-disposal workflow.