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What do you do with your expired medication?

Asked by sccrowell (3508points) October 3rd, 2009 from iPhone

As I cleaned my refrigerator, I noticed some out dated prescriptions. Some of them mine, a couple belonged to@wtf’s cat that died, and NO it wasn’t due to not getting his meds. I’ve found some in my cupboard that are not expired, but no longer taking. What about vitamins, liquid and tablet form? If I flush them, what does that do to the water in the long run? If I toss them then it ends up either in the landfills and will that contaminate the soil any worse than the garbage or worse? What about the good old dumpster divers? (although we don’t have a dumpster.) We do have garbage cans…

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