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The City of Petaluma has a new and convenient medicine disposal location
The Kaiser medical offices located at 3900 Lakeville Highway in Petaluma has partnered with the Safemed Program through the City of Petaluma to provide a secure and safe location for pharmaceutical disposal. The bin was installed on April 12, 2012…
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Keep Your Medications Out Of the Wrong Hands!
Safely disposing of your unused, unwanted and expired medicines does more than just protect our environment, it protects our youth as well by keeping medications out of the wrong hands. Unused and readily accessible medicines have the potential to be…
Over 1,100 Pounds of Unwanted Medicine Collected During Round Up Week
Just over 1,100 pounds of unwanted medicine and 137 pounds of sharps (such as hypodermic needles) were collected during the Safe Medicine Disposal Program’s “Safe Medicine Round Up Week” that took place on September 19 through September 23. Six drop…
“Can I recycle my medicine bottle?”
The Safe Medicine Disposal team gets this questions a lot. The short and simple answer is yes, absolutely, and please recycle those plastic pill containers. There are many reasons why you should recycle the containers instead of throwing them in…
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Look for the green collection bin
The Safe Medicine Disposal Program is changing-it-up a bit. In addition to our regular drop-off locations at pharmacies, we have now started placing medicine collection bins at various locations throughout the County. Currently you can find a drop-off bin at…
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Safe Medicine Disposal Program Rounds Up 600 Pounds of Unwanted Medication
More than 600 pounds of unwanted medicine and approximately 200 pounds of sharps were collected throughout Sonoma County as a part of the Safe Medicine Disposal Program’s “Safe Medicine Round Up Day” held on April 29. Five drop-off locations were…
7 Tons of Medicine and Counting…
The numbers are in for 2010 – and it was a banner year. The residents of Rohnert Park, Sebastopol, Cotati and Santa Rosa returned a record 7,475 pounds of medicine in 2010. This brings the total disposal weight to 14,557…
CalRecycle – revised background paper now available
I am pleased to announce a revised background paper for SB 966 is available here: http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/HomeHazWaste/Events/Pharma/2010/Jul20/Background/2011Jan19.pdf California’s Senate Bill 966 (Simitian, Chapter 542, Statutes of 2007) required CalRecycle to report to the Legislature on pharmaceutical drug waste disposal (that report…