[Pharmwaste] Best way to destroy collected Pharmaceuticals?

[Pete Pasterz]

While there seem to be many approaches in the accounts/case studies of pharma collections from community events and from health care facilities, final disposition is usually not addressed.  If there is a mention at all in the collection protocols I've read, "incineration" is usually used without definition.

Questions:
1] What ultimately happens to the drugs that you collect or that are collected in your jurisdictions?
2] If incinerated, in what type of incinerator?
                Medical Waste?
                MSW?
                Industrial Kiln?
                Crematory?
                On-site mobile/portable unit?
                Other?

Bonus Question-
For Air Quality regulators on the list [or one that you know to whom you can forward this], what are your State/Regional standards or requirements, if any?  How do they ensure that this process is ultimately safer to health and environment than landfill or sewer disposal?



þ Pete Pasterz, NCQRP
Cabarrus County Recycling and HHW
PO BOX 707
Concord, NC  28026
704-920-3280
www.cabarruscounty.us/waste<http://www.cabarruscounty.us/waste>
If you're not for ZERO Waste, how much Waste ARE you for?


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