Louisville Pharmaceutical
Collection Event at Avista Adventist Hospital
Partners for a Clean
Environment (PACE) and Avista Adventist Hospital are
sponsoring a free pharmaceutical drop-off day from 8 a.m. to
2 p.m. on Sunday, October 25, at Avista Adventist Hospital,
100 Health Park Drive, Louisville. The public is invited to
bring their expired, excess, and unwanted medications to the
hospital for proper disposal. Items accepted include:
This event
will allow people to properly dispose
of their unwanted medications, thus
preventing
these items from being flushed down the
drain or ending up
in our landfills. Most municipal wastewater treatment
plants aren't
designed to completely remove the chemicals and compounds
found in medications, so some are released directly back
into our waterways where they can have an adverse impact on
the environment. Recent studies have shown that these
chemicals can impact our aquatic environments and even make
their way into our drinking water.
For those who cannot attend the drop-off event, there are
other ways to properly dispose of medications:
-
Pour liquid medications over cat litter
or some other absorbent material and seal it in a
plastic bag before throwing
out in the trash.
-
Fill pill containers with household
glue, remove all personal information from the container,
and place it in the trash once the glue has dried.
-
Cut trans-dermal patches into small
strips, place
them in a container,
and add glue; or
mix them with coffee grounds or cat litter.
To learn
more about this event, visit
http://www.ci.louisville.co.us/calendar.htm and click on
the event link under October
26, or call Bill Hayes from
Boulder County Public Health at 303.441.1574. To
learn more about PACE, visit
http://www.pacepartners.com. |
