Simple Solution to a Serious Problem...Take Your Medicines Until They are all used up
When the doctor prescribes you a prescription for a medication, he or she not only prescribes, the name of the medicine, the dosage, the number of units to be dispensed by the pharmacist are listed (along with how many you take and at what interval) until all medicine has been taken.
The prescription is supposed to be use until all the units of medication have to administered. There should not be any units left in the bottle. That way there is none left to somehow enter our ecosystem. I know that some of the medicines you have taken might not be absorbed by the body, and some are washed out of the body in the body waste, and ends up being flushed down the toilet. But that is a small percentage, compared to flushing the medicine down the toilet.
Take you medicine (as prescribed) until it is all gone, do not stop taking the medicine, because you are starting to feel better, and think that you know better than the doctor.
As for removing the labels, from the containers, a pan of hot water will help remove the labels and obliterate the information. As for those plastic medicine bottles with a "Child Proof" cap that only children are able to remove, most of those are recyclable plastics, on the bottom of the bottle should be a triangle symbol with either the number "1" or "2" inside the triangle symbol. These are recyclable, and can be used in making more plastic containers.
If you have things in the household that are damaging to the environment, under Federal Law, every County in every State, has procedures for you to properly dispose of these items. Just call your local City/County/State Waste Management to find the nearest site to turn these items in for proper (and safe) disposal ~Parnelli
Medicines are chemicals and I have been trained in containing contaminations, as a NBC (Nuclear/Biological/Chemical) Specialist in the U.S. Army (also was a Senior Instructor of same). Many time I have be called on to help local authorities with problems that they did not know how to handle, or did not have the expertise in how to deal with the problem.
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