[Jararvellir] OT: Bring out your drugs!

[The Dark Lady]

Off-topic, but something I feel strongly about, from professional and environmental viewpoints. 

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A major and growing pollution concern is the concentration of prescription drug products in the water supply. They can be introduced either from leakage from landfills into the water table or when well-meaning people flush unused prescriptions down the toilet. While flushing used to be the recommended method of disposal, it prescription drugs are not filtered out at waste treatment plants and residual drugs are now recognized as a serious environmental and health hazard. 

So... if you can't flush them and can't toss them, what are you supposed to do with them?!? The answer is simple - Give them to me! 

Dane County has developed a Med Drop program to incinerate unused drugs. I am running a collection through work and would be happy to add personal stashes to the boxes (and boxes and boxes) I have collected already. So, look through your medicine cabinets for over-the-counter and prescription medications that you either no longer use or that are expired and bring them to me either at the Stock Pavilion or wherever you are likely to see me. You may obliterate your name on the label, but please keep things in their original containers so that they can be handled appropriately by the disposal company. I will be collecting meds until the end of the month or if you prefer, you can take them to the disposal site yourself on the collection day, I'm just trying to save folks a trip.  

More info at:
http://www.meddropdane.org/

Thanks all! 
Eithni

When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from humbler toil having commenced.    ---Thoreau