Does your pharmacy recycle meds?

lilygirl

I was cleaning out the bathroom closet the other day and realized how many old meds we have to throw away. However, I don't want them to end up in a landfill where they might be absorbed into the ground or flush them and have them in the water system.

A. What do you do with leftover/expired meds?

B. Does your pharmacy recycle them? If yes, is it all the time or just certain times of the year?

C. Am I too worried about this? (I think the answer might be yes, but I can take it.)

neeps

Katy just did a take back at the end of August where you could take your meds to HEB and they would dispose of them properly. Maybe Houston has a similar day? There's a website called disposemymeds.org You could try finding a pharmacy through that. I don't think being concerned with safe disposal is over thinking.

BritanyV

The only thing I've seen at the pharmacy is envelopes for you to mail (maybe?) meds but it actually costs $$ for you to send it.  Around $4 something an envelope and they didn't look like very big envelopes either. 

FutureMrsJW

My doctors office gave me a mailer for the Take Away Program.  It was a postage paid envelope that you dropped in the mail.  I can't find the info now, but if you look on the right hand side of the link, you can locate a pharmacy that participates in the program.  Looks live several Walgreens and CVS pharmacies do in my area.