Medications that you can’t finish or don’t need, you can send to the hospital for recycling!
Many people have the experience of not being able to finish their medications, and many people just leave them at home and wait until the big cleaning to throw these expired or no longer needed medications into the trash. In fact, such a move will damage the environment and also threaten human health.
People should return these leftover medications to the hospital, which will have professionals who will recycle them. These collected drugs will not be distributed to other patients and will be destroyed by heat.
If people throw the leftover drugs in the garbage, they will be disposed of in the garbage and the drugs will permeate the soil, which may lead to environmental contamination.
According to data from the UMass Hospital, 127 kilograms of medication were collected in January, 59 kilograms in February, 81 kilograms in March, 87 kilograms in April, and 71 kilograms in May 2019. The most commonly seen medications in the medication recycling program are diabetes, high cholesterol, calcium tablets, and stomach medications.
