{"id":2351,"date":"2021-06-13T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:03:33","slug":"disposing-of-old-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/disposing-of-old-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposing of old drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling to &#8220;properly&#8221; throw away some old medications recently. You&#8217;re not supposed to put them down the drain because they aren&#8217;t removed in the water treatment process and can end up contaminating your or downstream areas&#8217; water supply. The landfill seems fine to me (they are pretty good at keeping things contained), but drug disposal programs apparently incinerate everything, which is better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I figured that most pharmacies would have take-back programs, but I guess not! I visited a handful of places, chosen for their convenient location or because an (out-of-date) city website listed them. Some of the pharmacies I tried to go to didn&#8217;t even exist at that location any more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally had luck with a <a href=\"https:\/\/apps2.deadiversion.usdoj.gov\/pubdispsearch\/spring\/main?execution=e1s1\">DEA drop-off finder tool<\/a> (thanks for finding it, J!). The drop-off I went to only took pills, though, no liquids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling to &#8220;properly&#8221; throw away some old medications recently. You&#8217;re not supposed to put them down the drain because they aren&#8217;t removed in the water treatment process and can end up contaminating your or downstream areas&#8217; water supply. The landfill seems fine to me (they are pretty good at keeping things contained), but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/disposing-of-old-drugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disposing of old drugs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}