Proper Disposal of Unwanted Medicine: How to Protect Your Home and Environment
This brochure details information about the problems caused by unwanted medicine in the home and environment and provides helpful information for how to minimize the risks it poses.
Why create a medicine takeback program in your community?
This factsheet was designed to educate community members about the value and utility of unwanted medicine disposal programs.
Prescription for Safety: How to Dispose of Unwanted Medicine
This brochure provides tips on how to properly use, store and dispose of expired or unwanted medications. It was developed by IISG, on behalf of the National Sea Grant Office, in partnership with the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Safe Rx Disposal as Easy as 1-2-3
This poster provides the best way to safely dispose of unwanted medicine by providing instructions for bringing to it to a take-back event and what to do if you cannot make it to a take-back.
The Medicine Chest: A Collection of Safe Disposal Curriculum Activities and Service-Learning Resources
The Medicine Chest addresses the issue of unwanted medicine with curricula comprised of multidisciplinary, standards-based classroom materials. It includes sample stewardship activities and background information for educators and high school students on how the improper disposal of unwanted medicines can be harmful to people, pets, and the environment.
Sensible Disposal of Unwanted Medicines
This 4-H curriculum, designed for informal education audiences, provides five inquiry-based lessons to help high school youth understand the harmful effects of improper disposal of medicines and what they can do to help. Each lesson contains a complete instruction plan, centered on a hands-on activity for the students.
The veterinarian's role in and attitude to the disposal of unwanted pharmaceuticals
Veterinarians’ unique relationship with pharmaceuticals compared to other health professionals provide a wide breath of potential pollution pathways. The objectives of this research were to: learn about the drug disposal practices of the veterinarian and their clients from the veterinarian’s perspective; learn about the importance of the topic of drug disposal to veterinarians; and determine the outreach needs and preferences of veterinarians and how best to educate about this issue. Given the role that veterinarians can play as both a source of new medicine to the environment and a method of drug disposal, the veterinarian is key to keeping unused and unwanted medicine out of the environment.
FIND A DROP-OFF LOCATION
Use our interactive map to find a location near you to take your unwanted or expired medicine.