Infectious waste container for blood collection needles

An infectious waste container for blood collection needles, comprising:

• a container body with a mouth at a top thereof;
• a lid body attached to the mouth of said container body and provided in a top wall thereof with an opening;
• and
• needle-removing means arranged in the opening of said lid body for removing a blood collection needle from needle fixing means of a blood collection needle holder;
• said needle-removing means comprising a cylindrical member including a holder insertion section and a holder suspension section, said holder insertion section being so formed as to have an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of said holder, while said holder suspension section being so formed as to have an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of said holder, said cylindrical member being axisymmetrially provided with first and second notched portions extending from the holder insertion section to the holder suspension section, said first notched portion being stretched to a downwardly slanted portion protruded inwardly from a bottom of said first notched portion, said first notched portion being terminated at a level where the needle fixing means of said holder does not come into contact with the inner wall of the cylindrical member when said holder is inserted thereinto, while the second notched portion being so formed as to be deeper than the level of the slanted portion by a certain distance and terminated within the holder suspension section.