The January AARP bulletin contained an article on just this problem and the fish 'being rocked' by all the drugs being dumped. It stated that 80% of our wateways are polluted by presciption drugs. They also did an article a couple of months ago on a guy who wants to set up redistribution centers for unused drugs for folks who have no drug coverage. Sounds like a plan to me. I order drugs for 90 days, but then if my dosage changes, I'm stuck with this partial unused prescription. I'd love to donate it so it could be used by someone who needs it.

Anyway, they suggested if you could not return to pharmacy and had to dispose of in landfill, to remove name from bottle, add small amount of water to pills or flour to liquid meds, so someone couldn't take it. Put the med bottle in a paper bag or container to conceal it and toss as close to garbage pick up as possible. I don't like the idea of this crap in landfills either because that leaches into water also.

I'd love to see a pill recycle program take place. It is such a waste to throw these out. But if you must, DON'T FLUSH DOWN TOILET.

Take care,
Eileen