[Pharmwaste] San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results

Mon Jun 7 21:53:38 EDT 2010

>From Duluth
The 862 pds- all pills fromt he 520 participants with 66 pds of it being controlled substances.  Since that time, WLSSD in conjunction with the St. Louis County Sherriff Dept (would not happen without them), has conducted 3 more collections with an average of 200 participants per collection, 25-40 pds of controlled substances collected and 100-300 pds of noncontrolled (as we refer to them) per collection.

Heidi Ringhofer
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
Duluth MN

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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 Volkman, Jennifer (MPCA)
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 6:29 PM
To: Mark; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results

Good question Gressitt.  Perhaps Mr. Donahue will reveal the super double secret non-bench scale treatment method that can be used across the country that we all haven't heard of yet?  

I am trying to dig up event information.  One event in Duluth, MN had 520 participants with 862 lbs collected, but it says "net" pounds the report.  I am trying to find out whether that is just the pills/liquids or total with all the packaging.  I was there and it seemed that most people had a standard paper grocery bag that was ½ full to full.  1.65 lbs/participant seems a bit light from what I saw, 10 lbs is amazing, wow!

From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of gressitt
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 6:14 PM
To: Mark
Cc: 'Jeff Hollar'; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us; 'Matthew C. Mireles'
Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results

Why? What is better? 

---- On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:04:13 -0700 Mark <mdonahue3 at charter.net> wrote ---- 

But the *solution* is still incineration. Not good!

Mark Donahue

ListServe Contributor

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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 Matthew C. Mireles
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 6:16 PM
To: Jeff Hollar; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results

That actually may qualify each household as small waste generator...  : )

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeff Hollar 
Sent: Jun 7, 2010 2:47 PM 
To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us 
Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results 

Wow - That's over 10 pounds of pharmaceutical waste per vehicle!  That seems high for a single consumer household.

Jeff Hollar

President

 PharmWaste Technologies, Inc.

 (P) 515-276-5302 Ext. 316

 (W) www.pwaste.com

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Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 1:41 PM
To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: [Pharmwaste] San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results

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From: Ken Diehl [mailto:Ken.Diehl at saws.org] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 12:17 PM
To: 'pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us'
Subject: FW: San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results

May I ask this List Group if any other Program of it's kind has exceeded 1,336 lbs. for a one time collection of unused/unwanted medicines collected in the US?  Thanks.

Ken Diehl, Environmental Protection Specialist IV

Resource Protection & Compliance Department

San Antonio Water System

P.O. Box 2449

San Antonio, Texas  78298

Work: (210) 233-3535

Fax:    (210) 233-4797

ken.diehl at saws.org

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Subject: San Antonio - Texas / MedDropSA results

I wanted to share the results provided by the San Antonio Police Department/Narcotics Division of "MedDropSA" that was held this last Sat. (June 5th) in San Antonio Texas.  MedDropSA is the name for the City of San Antonio's residential pharmaceutical drug disposal program. See Flyer attached.   

The San Antonio Water System has partnering with the San Antonio Police Department and the City's Solid Waste Management Division on a new initiative, MedDropSA.  This program is designed to collect unwanted or unused medications, both prescription and over-the-counter.  The event was scheduled in conjunction with the City's Household Hazardous Waste collection day to collect old/unneeded pharmaceuticals, providing a safe, free alternative to disposal.   

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·        Pills - 1,007 lbs    

·        Liquids/powders/creams - 329 lbs

          GRAND TOTAL: 1,336 lbs

Approximate number of vehicles participated:  

·       110

Boxes to be incinerated by Law enforcement at a permitted facility: 

·       Total of 36 boxes

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

Ken Diehl, Environmental Protection Specialist IV

Resource Protection & Compliance Department

San Antonio Water System

P.O. Box 2449

San Antonio, Texas  78298

Work: (210) 233-3535

Fax:    (210) 233-4797

ken.diehl at saws.org

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