How do you get rid of your medications and OTC (over the counter) medicines that you no longer use?
So many of us may have seen our parents from years ago, flushing them down the toilet or pouring the liquid contents down the drain...even wrapping them up in a plastic bag and throwing them in the trash can, but that is very harmful to our water supply and our land and so much more.
Imagine billions of people doing the same.
What about the fish in the ocean?
They are eating everything that's in it, including your heart medication or your high blood pressure medicine.
If we are what we eat, as the old saying goes, then both they and we are getting a portion of unwanted drugs into their system.
We can do our part by not making the ocean, lakes, rivers, seas anymore contaminated than they already are, as well as our land where we grow fruits and vegetables.
Don't take for granted that the Sanitation Companies are going to go through your trash and sort it out or don't think that it's "not a big deal", cause it really is.
Check out this website that helps us properly dispose of unused drugs....
Then JUST DO IT!!!
http://www.smarxtdisposal.net/
SMARXT DISPOSAL TM public awareness campaign is a unique public-private partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Pharmacists Association, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
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