[Pharmwaste] Household pharms (even haz waste) excluded

[Howard Anderson]

Dear Pharmawaste:

If we are going to make any real progress in getting these unused drugs
collected and destroyed you all need to decide what process should be used.
If incineration is the best, then you need to lighten up and let us help the
consumer destroy them without a bunch of restrictions on the collection,
shipping, storage, etc. of these items, or we will simply abandon the
effort, as we have several times in the past, and the will end up in the
sewer, or trash, again.

If we make every consumer drive from North Dakota to an incinerator in
Illinois to deliver their expired drugs, we will make a lot of air
pollution, or it will never happen. You get to decide which.


Sincerely,

Howard

Howard C. Anderson, Jr.,R.Ph.
Executive Director
North Dakota Board of Pharmacy
1906 E. Broadway Ave.
P.O. Box 1354
Bismarck, ND  58502-1354
Phone (701) 328-9535
Fax (701) 328-9536
Web site www.nodakpharmacy.com
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[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Gilliam,
Allen
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:45 AM
To: 'Tenace, Laurie'; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Household pharms (even haz waste) excluded

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
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