[Pharmwaste] RE: reasons to continue despite low % of water contamination

[Susan Zabo]

The points of  overdoses is so true, I started working on a grant in Dec. of 2009 to have hospitals sponsor take-back programs with their police departments for pollution prevention measures, the grant proved the one point I had been trying to make to hospitals for many years. If you take the recycle symbol  of the three R's -  Recycle, Reduce, Reuse and put in  three P's - Pollution Prevention, Patient Safety, Public Awareness - the green teams would not have the same obstacles at the hospitals. 

In Ohio deaths from accidental drug poisoning increased 300 percent from 1999 to 2007. We need to keep these programs going. 

Susan Zabo
Consultant - Pollution Prevention Coordinator 
614.738.2186

http://www.ohanet.org/Issue/Environmental%20Protection