I saw a similar method printed on one of my prescription bags. So when I cleaned out the refrigerator I found an unappealing unknown substance. I wanted to see how this worked. Poured the unidentified pills on top. Stirred them in... slapped on the lid and it's ready for the landfill. Since I want to be thrifty and save the container, i'll freeze the contents, pop them out into a plastic bag and then throw them in the trash. It's amazing how many pills old people take. Once they're in a pill box and forgotten or a decade out of date this is the best way to safely dispose of them when you find them. Note:. These were found in an old suitcase that was packed before I started managing Mom's medications. I couldn't positively identify most of them, so this was the approved disposal method recommended by my local pharmacy.
Here, the sea gulls would get that before it was scooped into the transfer trucks. Flush them and the medications find their way into the water supply, river, or ocean.
Save the out-of-date fish oil / omega3 pills for fish bait / fish attractant. How To Use Fish Oil For Fishing Bait | FishingWithBait Alternatively.... Just sayin'.
There used to be pharmacies and police departments that would dispose of them. I think that's faded away. This seems to be the new prescribed method. I like the way you think Chell. Stink bait additive. My secret catfish bait ingredient has always been.... shhhhh! strawberry preserves.
I do fish....though it has been some time. Biggest fish I caught was a 7.2kg Flathead by hand. I was snorkeling at the time, and it got caught in the shark net in the Forster/Tuncurry channel. I took it to the Tuncurry Fisherman's Cooperative, and got one of the workers there to fillet it for me...tastiest fish I have ever eaten.
We have a septic system with an 1100 gallon tank the few pills we flush down the toilet I think would be diluted in 1100 gallons. We keep pills well past their expiration date -wife retired nurse says there still good
Don't often have any left over but occasionally get pain prescriptions or antibiotics that I never take that sit in the desk drawer for 5-10 years. I just put some diesel and gas in coffee can, a screen over the top pour the pills onto the screen and light it and let them burn. Come back a hour later and there is no trace of the pills just a coffee can and screen to toss in the junk metal pile. Doc tells me with most pill prescriptions you can add a year or two to the expiration date if you keep them in cold storage 10+ years for some and other not at all as they break down fairly fast and become toxic. Ask me and do your own fact finding research on the real expiration dates is his advice.
Am doubtful that disposing of anti biotic / anti viral medications in septic / sewerage systems is a good idea. Antibiotic resistance is presently a concern, degrading the ability of health systems to combat bacterial and other infections, and putting those medications into a soup of microbes harmful to humans is a recipe for even further resistance....it's how evolution by natural selection blindly exploits human lack of consequential insight, to overcome human ingenuity. Best to dispose of antibiotics and anti-virals in such a way as it doesn't potentially harm others.
