[Pharmwaste] National Pharmaceutical Take-Back Day on November 13??

Lawrence County Recycling/Solid Waste Dept. recycling at co.lawrence.pa.us
Thu Jun 17 13:53:48 EDT 2010


The Lawrence County (PA) Recycling/Solid Waste Dept. is working towards
coordinating a Pharmaceutical Take-Back event on November 6 in New Castle,
PA.  In the past year or so, there have been a number of take-back events in
other counties in PA, and I believe these counties intend on continuing
their events.  Tom Hyatt in the PA Bureau of Waste Management would have
more detailed information on PA events.

Lorraine Ranchod, Assistant Director
Lawrence County Recycling/Solid Waste Dept.
430 Court Street
New Castle, PA 16101
724-658-6925 ext. 1
Fax: 724-656-2287
Lranchod at co.lawrence.pa.us
 

-----Original Message-----
From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Bowling,
Patrick
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:46 AM
To: 'pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us'
Subject: [Pharmwaste] National Pharmaceutical Take-Back Day on November 13??

I am involved with a collaborative effort to plan and conduct a single-day,
coordinated drug take-back event at a location within each state in the
Potomac River Basin.  We noticed an earlier posting about November 13 being
a National Pharmaceutical Take-Back Day.  Upon researching the issue,
Operation Medicine Cabinet in New Jersey
(www.operationmedicinecabinetnj.org) is spearheading this and while is being
touted as a "National" event (www.americanmedicinechest.org), it seems to be
focused on New Jersey.


We are aware of a locality here in PA that is interested and have heard that
at least one place in Florida may be participating.

We are curious if any other states/localities are participating in this
event and if it is truly a national effort.

Any insight/info would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Pat

G. Patrick Bowling, P.G. | Source Water Protection Coordinator
PA Department of Environmental Protection
Rachel Carson State Office Building
400 Market Street | P.O. Box 8555
Harrisburg, PA 17105-8555
Phone: 717.772.3600 | Fax: 717.787.9549
Email: gbowling at state.pa.us | www.depweb.state.pa.us

---
Note: As a courtesy to other listserv subscribers, please post messages to
the listserv in plain text format to avoid the garbling of messages received
by digest recipients.
---
TO SUBSCRIBE, go to:
http://lists.dep.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharmwaste 
TO UNSUBSCRIBE, DO NOT REPLY TO THE LISTSERV. Please send an e-mail to
pharmwaste-unsubscribe at lists.dep.state.fl.us -- the subject line and body of
the e-mail should be blank.
If you believe you may be subscribed with a different email address, please
visit the subscriber listing at
http://lists.dep.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/mailman/roster/pharmwaste 
FOR PROBLEMS:  Contact List Administrator Laurie.Tenace at dep.state.fl.us 
SEND MAIL to the list server at:  pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us



More information about the Pharmwaste mailing list