Well, nevertheless, you DO have needles to get rid of and you definitely don’t want to just toss them in the trash. You might look into asking your local fire department. The one in our town will dispose of needles that are used in situations like those used for insulin and other medical injections, etc. It’s worth a shot. Whether you should be tattooing or not is irrelevant. What is important is to keep the needles out of circulation where they could infect someone.