[Pharmwaste] Household pharms (even haz waste) excluded

[Gilliam, Allen]

How many of you have some major heartburn over this? "The following statement can be made about your household/residential (only) take-back programs' pharmaceuticals: 'House-hold pharmaceuticals collected through take-back programs retains its residential hazardous waste exclusion from collection through final disposal even if disposal is by incineration.'"

This has recently been coerced out of our haz waste division "experts'" mouths and hopefully will make octomom look childless once our State Drug Director gets a full push going on with all the police agencies in the state. See
https://ardhs.sharepointsite.net/RX for more details.

This state's Office of the Drug Director is approaching take-back programs from the overdose/abuse viewpoint and seems to be outpacing the "save the environment" viewpoint by several laps BEGINNING with our law enforcement partners taking the lead.

Who'd thunk?

Allen g