[Pharmwaste] Rates of consumer drug generation

[Charlotte A. Smith]

Hi Gina,

 

Thank you so much for this information. I am interested in getting as
many data points as possible. Congratulations on your successful
collection events!

 

Best regards,

 

Charlotte A. Smith, R. Ph., M.S., HEM

President

PharmEcology Associates, LLC

12229 W. North Ave., Suite 2

Wauwatosa, WI 53226

414-292-3959

414-915-4026(cell)

csmith at pharmecology.com

 

From: Gina Temple-Rhodes [mailto:gina.Temple-Rhodes at WLSSD.Duluth.MN.US] 
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:04 AM
To: Charlotte A. Smith; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] Rates of consumer drug generation

 

Hi Charlotte and others:

 

During 4 events in the past year at WLSSD in Duluth, we have facilitated
collection of 1640 lbs of drug waste from 1096 households. These totals
do include some packaging weight, and works out to about 1.5 lbs per
household. 

 

The totals varied a bit between each collection, but the first
collection in October 07 yielded the same average as the last collection
held in Sept 08 (1.6 lbs per household). We didn't track repeat
households in our survey (i.e. were the households who brought in meds
to later events all new participants who were cleaning out old material,
or did the some of the same households generate that much between
events?).

 

At all collections, we saw plenty of old medications (usually quite a
few from the 80's) and heard from residents that they didn't know how to
dispose of meds, so tended to hold onto them. But we also saw lots of
recently expired items. Hope that info is helpful; it's not simply newly
generated waste, but I think the consistency between events is
interesting. 

 

Best wishes-

 

Gina Temple-Rhodes

Environmental Program Coordinator

Western Lake Superior Sanitary District

2626 Courtland Street

Duluth, MN 55806-1894

Direct Phone: 218-740-4784  

Fax 218-727-7471

www.wlssd.com <http://www.wlssd.com/> 

 

 

 

 

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From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Charlotte
A. Smith
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 7:12 PM
To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Rates of consumer drug generation

Hi Everyone,

 

I am trying to develop some metrics for the number of pounds of drug
waste generated by consumers/year. I know this is very difficult since
we have such a backlog. It would be helpful to know if any of you are
tracking poundage per household per year over several years. That would
give me a starting point. ( I am assuming that most drop-offs are per
household rather than per individual, even though some households may be
single persons.) If you have any estimated rates of usage per population
based on follow-up surveys, that would also be very helpful.  Thank you
very much for any information you can provide.

 

Best regards,

 

Charlotte A. Smith, R. Ph., M.S., HEM

President

PharmEcology Associates, LLC

12229 W. North Ave., Suite 2

Wauwatosa, WI 53226

414-292-3959

414-915-4026(cell)

csmith at pharmecology.com

 

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