[Pharmwaste] July 20 - Model Drug Collection Program Workshop

[Jackson, Jennifer]

FYI - for those of you involved in implementing pharms programs:

 

Join CalRecycle for a stakeholder workshop on model programs for
home-generated pharmaceutical waste collection and disposal. 

 

Date: July 20, 2010

Time: 10am-5pm 

Location: Cal/EPA building
<http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EPABldg/Location.htm> ; 1001 I Street,
Sacramento, California

Webcast: The meeting will also be webcast
<http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Broadcast/>  

 

This is your opportunity to comment on the survey results, analysis
methodology, initial findings and to provide information on effective
model programs in California that collect and dispose of home-generated
pharmaceutical waste.  These findings and your input will be addressed
in a report to the California Legislature. 

 

Please RSVP by July 6 to PharmaSharps at CalRecycle.ca.gov or call Sangeeta
Hegde at (916) 341-6486.

 

Background:

Senate Bill 966
<http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0951-1000/sb_966_bill_2
0071012_chaptered.html>  required CalRecycle to work with agencies
including the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water
Resources Control Board, and the California State Board of Pharmacy to
develop criteria and procedures
<http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/HomeHazWaste/Medications/ModelProgram/Crit
eria.pdf>  for model pharmaceutical waste collection programs by
December 2008.  SB 966 also requires CalRecycle to analyze model
programs for effectiveness, cost, accessibility, and safety.  These
findings must be included with recommendations in a report to the
Legislature by December 2010. 

 

 

Mr. Burke Lucy

Integrated Waste Management Specialist

Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle)

(formerly California Integrated Waste Management Board)

1001 I Street, PO Box 4025

Sacramento, CA 95812

Burke.Lucy at CalRecycle.ca.gov

916.324.6848

 

IMPORTANT!  Effective May 1, 2010, the only active work-related E-mail
address for me will be Burke.Lucy at CalRecycle.ca.gov
<mailto:FirstName.LastName at CalRecycle.ca.gov> . any E-mail messages sent
to my prior BLucy at CIWMB.ca.gov address will not be forwarded. Please
update any contact or address book entries by that date to ensure that
your E-mail messages will be correctly routed to me. Thank you!

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