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Project Administrator:
Victoria Davis
Project Title:
Unwanted Medicine Collections
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Project Summary:
Dumping medicines down the drain or flushing them down the toilet contaminates our drinking water. Septic systems and wastewater treatment facilities do not remove these chemicals from our water. Collection of these drugs provides responsible management to keep unwanted medicines out of our water.
Beginning in 2010, the Commission partnered with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Out-Patient Pharmacy who now generously provides annual unwanted medicine collections in conjunction with our HHW (household hazardous waste) collections. The host community provides a police officer to direct the collection and take any controlled drugs (addictive or with street value) back to the police station for security until taken for disposal. The noncontrolled drugs are taken by the hazardous waste hauler for incineration with the hazardous wastes.
Additional Information
Participating towns in 2011 are Cornish, Enfield, Goshen, Hanover, Lebanon, Lempster, Lyme, New London, Newbury, Newport, Orford, Piermont, Plainfield, Springfield, Sunapee, Unity, Washington, and Wilmot. Residents from participating towns can bring their household hazardous waste and unwanted medicines for free.
Funders:
- Town of Washington
- Town of Unity
- Town of Sunapee
- Town of Springfield
- Town of Plainfield
- Town of Piermont
- Town of Orford
- Town of Newbury
- Town of Lyme
- Town of Lempster
- Town of Hanover
- Town of Goshen
- Town of Enfield
- Town of Cornish
- State of New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Hazardous Waste Cleanup Fund
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
- City of Lebanon
- City of Claremont
- Town of Wilmot
Committees Involved:
- Upper Valley Household Hazardous Waste Committee
- Greater Sullivan County Household Hazardous Waste Committee