[Pharmwaste] RE: National take-back program - what kind of incinerators?

Fri Aug 27 13:50:41 EDT 2010

no visible smoke, no particulate matter and a quick vortex generating high heat incineration.  yeh, I suppose it would fry a mosquito or two flying directly over its exhaust.

"Contraband or prohibited goods are exempt from the MSW NSPS in 40 CFR 60.2887(p):  Units that combust contraband or prohibited goods. Your incineration unit is excluded if the unit is owned or operated by a government agency such as police, customs, agricultural inspection, or a similar agency to destroy only illegal or prohibited goods such as illegal drugs, or agricultural food products that can not be transported into the country or across State lines to prevent biocontamination. The exclusion does not apply to items either confiscated or incinerated by private, industrial, or commercial entities."

Once handed over to one our participating law enforcement agencies or left in a secured drop box, un-used/expired meds are deemed "contraband" quoted from one of our local police chiefs.

One of our air division's guru's stated, your police officer can even take the box of pharmas out to your city's animal control incinerator and toss it in.

the unit looked at is Elastech's cyclonic drum "Drug Terminator" @ http://www.u-p-i.com/drug_terminator.htm .  They say over 2,000 law enforcement agencies around the country are already using them.

And, yeh, to agree with Jack, "we're getting to the same place so it doesn't matter what horse you're riding on".  I TOTALLY agree.

As a caveat though, our Office of the Drug Director's "Czar" has not signed off on the procurement of any of these yet.  Hopefully it's in their immediate plans.  As of today, excepting 3 other established "terminator" sites in the state, the majority of the take-back contraband is hauled all the way to the southern edge of the state to our only permitted haz waste incinerator, Clean Harbors.

The State's Office of Drug Director's correspondence/request to ADEQ's director for concurrence is "in the mail".

allen g

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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 Stevan Gressitt
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But at this time we are not using portable mosquito foggers to claim to dispose of used drugs.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Price, John L. "Jack" <John.L.Price at dep.state.fl.us<mailto:John.L.Price at dep.state.fl.us>> wrote:
Allen: I like the "friendly" competition between Ark and Maine!

It sounds like the program will be using portable incineration units. Can you provide any details like brand, model? Does "scattering mobile incinerators around the state" give any of your air reg people heartburn (it would to ours!)?

We found the same thing in FL: Diversion trumps environment. The last pharm take back bill proposed in FL was about diversion first with an environmental footnote. But that's OK - it gets us to the same place so it doesn't matter what horse we ride.

Jack

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Subject: [Pharmwaste] National take-back program

Currently working with this group to help make Arkansas one of the top take-back states in the country (gotcha beat, Gressitt!) .  142 law enforcement agencies signed on as of today.  Will hopefully be looking at scattering incinerator units throughout the state.

See below short TV clip with our "Drug Czar", Fran Flener talking about the national take-back day on 9/25.  Talk about an organizer!

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=114588&catid=2

It took, what Nancy?  8 months to get your take back program started, focusing on the environmental protection?  It took less than 2 months for this statewide campaign to begin rolling focusing on drug diversion.

Allen g

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Stevan Gressitt, M.D.
Faculty Associate, University of Maine Center on Aging
Academic Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research
Athens, Greece
Founding Director, Institute for Medicine Safety
University of New England, College of Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland, Maine 04103
gressitt at gmail.com<mailto:gressitt at gmail.com>
Cell: 207-441-0291
www.benzos.une.edu<http://www.benzos.une.edu/>
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