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Disposing Meds
How do you dispose of old or unneeded medications? Family members of mine dump them in the toilet, but that skeeves me out-I feel like I'm contaminating the water system. I also don't feel totally confident about just throwing it away.
What do you do? Is there an EF way to do this or is it a necessary evil?
Re: Disposing Meds
Have you tried googling how to dispose of that specific medication? I looked up disposing of medication. You're right, dumping them in the toilet is contaminating the water system.
You could call a pharmacy and ask too, I'm sure they get asked that alot.
Dumping them in the toilet is contaminating the water system, and you are definitely *not* supposed to do that.
The most eco-friendly (and safety conscious) way is to find a pharmacy that accepts expired meds for recycling. They'll be taken and properly incinerated with other expired meds. You'll have to do a search for your area though; not all pharmacies do this and the ones that do sometimes only do it during certain times of the year.
The other method, if the first isn't an option, is to take them out of their bottles (so people don't know what they were if they are drug seeking, I guess), mix them up with "undesirable" things, like coffee grounds and used cat litter, and throw them in the trash. http://www.ohca.org/content/view/460/194/
Thank you, everyone! I had no idea you could return it to the pharmacy. OTC meds we usually go through by their exp. date (or we throw them out), but DH just had surgery and we have some pretty potent stuff left over which freaks me out.
Thank you again!
Throwing them in the trash would be better than fluching them... you'll just end up puttng them in drinking water (depending on the medicine, it is have for water treatment plants to get everything.)
Here all pharmacies must take back meds and gladly do so for proper disposal... in the orginal container. Some meds need to be burned at higher temperatures.
In Canada, nearly every pharmacy takes expired meds for incineration.
Some communities will take them on hazardous waste collection day.
Down the toilet is indeed bad - water treatment plants are not designed to remove drugs, and they don't remove drugs. I heard a really interesting presentation last week on the persistence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the water supply. Terrifying, really, and messing with the ecosystem in a pretty serious way.