Where to dispose of expired Medicine.?

Question

I am wanting to dispose of expired meds and household chemicals. Example. off bug spray, sunblock etc. I have no idea where to take these items. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Your expired meds can be taken back to the pharmacy, don't flush them.
For the other stuff, look up the name of your town or county along with the words 'household hazardous waste' and they should tell you where you can take it.

Answer 2

Most of have the immediate reaction to throw the stuff down the toilet or down the drain. However, we are now discovering the harmful effects of this to fish, foul flora and fauna. Most cities today have hazardous waste disposal sites. This is a very good option. However, you should be aware that some medications have a usable life beyond that of the date on the bottle. There are many poor who would and could use these medications.

Especially allergy medicine, bronco-aid medications, and antibiotics. Check with local shelters and free clinics to see if they would be willing to take the medications for use by a patient that can't otherwise afford medications.

I have said for sometime now that Free clinics are the best way to go. I personally cared for a friend who died of side affects of aids. All his belongings were donated to a clinic that specialized in aids prevention. I think he would be to know that he was able to help someone in the after life.

Meds not used can be a great help in the hands of caring providers that will know shelf life beyond an expiration date.

Pharmacutic industry sends its expired medication to Free clinics here and abroad and then claim credit for donations.

This is somethin that we can not do but when one person sees the value of helping the less fortunate. Pay back comes back in more valuable ways.

Answer 3

A expiration date is a suggestion and it has been found that in many cases it does not mean that these things are no longer good,.
Although aspirins when they are bad tend to smell like vinegar.
Your Village hall or sanitation authorities will have an answer for how to deal with these things.

Answer 4

Don't flush them down the toilet! They will dissolve and become part of our chemical pollution.

Locally, take pills to a chemist or pharmacist to dispose of.

Call your local dump/waste management to find out where to recycle the chemicals.

Answer 5

Call your local Police to see if they have an Environmental officer. That's whom we were taught to dispose our drugs through from a community home. He told us not to flush or throw away as these drugs leach into water supply. I don't now how they dispose of them but said they treated them as bio-hazards.

Answer 6

expired meds and such like can be taken to you're local chemist and they will dispose of them, not sure about household chemicals, try calling you're local authority and ask if they are ok to be thrown away with normal household trash

Answer 7

NEVER flush pills, chemicals, or anything other than bodily wastes down the toilet!!!

Wow. I can't believe people in the Green answers are suggesting putting hazardous waste down the drain. Recycle them at the pharmacy or take them to a hazardous waste facility in your town.

Answer 8

Medications can be flushed down the toilet. Sunblock and bug spray can just be thrown in the trash. If aren't toxic. If they were, you couldn't put them on or in your body.

Answer 9

Ask your local chemist