celwood

Our local fire department collects them

Stitchnripper

Here, there is an envelope for purchase at the drug stores. Not free - I have donated non expired ones to a charity that takes them.

Jeanne S

You are so right--medications should NEVER be flushed as they survive the water treatment process and will end up back in your drinking water eventually. Besides the police, our local Medical Association has drop off boxes. Because our municipal trash is incinerated not dumped in a landfill, we can also mix the meds with old grease or coffee grounds then put them in the trash for incineration. The containers are recyclable plastic.

Karamarie

Our local Sheriff's office has a drop box for disposing of mess - you may want to check this out.

jothesewer2

I asked my drugstore, the pharmacy told me to smash them with a hammer, mix them with coffee grounds and throw them in the trash.

QuiltE

Just a thought here ... in this area, coffee grounds go to compost.
Do they not in other areas??
If so ... never mix in meds!!

If going to landfill, it can eventually leach back into the water system.

If going to incineration .... different story.

Bubbie

You can take to your doctors office, police station or I've worked with Hospice and we take a diaper (or bed pad). Then place oral meds on it and add water (if the meds are large, I will start to brake the meds up). When you add the water to them they fall apart. Good luck

judy363905

Similar to this ... We were told to put them in a coffee grinder with coffee beans.

Judy in Phx, AZ

QuiltE

And then how do you dispose of the dissolved meds?

MarleneC

The police and pharmacies have disposal times during the year. We take them to designated pharmacies and while the police watch we place them in the disposal barrels.