Toilets with Sharps Disposal in Queensland

Queensland records 1,081 of Australia's 4,955 public toilets with a sharps disposal bin — 22% of the national total. That makes it the second-largest state total, behind Victoria (1,571). They sit in 520 named towns.

Maryborough (13), Surfers Paradise (11) and Emerald (10) carry the most between them. Those 3 account for 34 of the 1,081; a further 287 towns record exactly one.

Named listings include Barrett Street Park (Water Reserve), Dundubara Camping Area - Great Sandy National Park, Theo Greene Park and Picnic Point. Around Maryborough the listings run to Queens Park, Anzac Park and Maryborough Plaza Shopping Centre.

Most sit in parks and reserves (690), with 73 shopping centres, 49 sporting grounds and 36 community buildings. Across the set the listings cover 17 of the 17 kinds of site the map names. A further 100 are filed under the map's catch-all "Other" category. They are 24% of the 4,551 public toilets recorded in Queensland, and 24% of the round-the-clock ones.

830 of the 1,081 are recorded as wheelchair accessible — including Flintwood Crescent Park and Joe Kirwan Park. 12 are Changing Places facilities, with an adult-sized change table and a hoist — among them Brisbane Airport Domestic Terminal and Peppertree Park. 6 open with an MLAK key, the national Master Locksmiths Access Key — among them Tallebudgera Creek Park and Washington Waters Park. 5 need a key from the operator instead, which means finding whoever holds it before you arrive. 305 of the 1,081 have a baby-change table, and 294 of those sit at a site that is also wheelchair accessible.

559 of the 1,081 are published as open 24 hours — such as Miller Park and Eaton Park. 222 open in daylight hours only, 41 list variable hours and 4 follow the host venue's hours. Where set times are published, the earliest opening is 3:45am at Central Railway Station and the latest closing is 11pm at BP Express Aspley. 8 are shown as closed on Mondays. 292 publish no weekly hours at all, so treat those as unknown rather than open.

5 of the 1,081 charge for entry; the rest are free — the charging ones being Pebble Creek Parklands and Boyne Valley Discovery Centre. A sharps bin is a sealed container for used needles, lancets and pen needles — for people who inject insulin or other medication as much as anyone else. The map records that a bin is present, not how often it is emptied. Every figure here is counted from the National Public Toilet Map, which operators and councils update at their own pace.