Local pharmacies offer safe ways to dispose of out of date or unwanted prescription and over the counter medications.
Rather than flush medications down the sink or toilet, or throw them into the garbage, local residents are urged to returning them to a pharmacy for safe disposal.
When prescription or over the counter drugs are thrown into the garbage or flushed down the sink or toilet, their chemical components may be added to the municipal water supply or to the groundwater through the soil, leeching into local lakes, rivers and streams.
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