Dan, thanks for that reminder. I wonder how the pharmacies dispose of the excess meds...
Once at a military command I was the officer selected to witness (sign for) the destruction of prescription meds. They were all flushed down the toilet. That was years ago, I wonder if they have a different procedure now. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:45 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Don’t flush pharmaceuticals, please. Your local pharmacist will gladly > take them to dispose of them. > > I saw an internal report on the pharmaceuticals that show up in our > county’s wastewater treatment system and it was pretty frightening. > Granted, many of these are trace amounts, but there’s no system that can > take them out of the effluent stream, so they end up in the outflow from > the treatment plants. > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
