[Pharmwaste] Scott Cassel's question

[Jim Mullowney]

The EPA prohibited incineration of pharmaceuticals in medical waste incinerators along with mercury containing wastes in 2009 for the reason that they will be put up in the air. They should do that for solid waste incineration and even hazardous waste incineration of extremely hazardous waste (RI reference) such as cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs. 



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-------- Original message --------From: "Bickford, Barbara J - DNR (Barb)" <Barbara.Bickford at wisconsin.gov> Date: 6/30/16  12:20 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: "Pharmwaste, the list" <pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us> Subject: [Pharmwaste] Scott Cassel's question 


Scott Cassel asked: 
Can any government officials on this list verify that their agencies approve of these pouches being landfilled?
   
 
The answer depends on who is managing the waste:  a household, a collection program or a non-household. 

 
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If a household disposed of the drug-in-a-pouch at home, it could be landfilled under current regulations. Although this is not the best option environmentally, Wisconsin
 allows landfilling as a last resort.
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If the drug-in-a-pouch ends up at a household medication collection, Wisconsin policy is that collected pharmaceutical waste must be destroyed by incineration. Other
 states might have different policies. 
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If a non-household, waste management regulations would apply.  Under EPA’s RCRA Subtitle C regulations (or state regulations based on them), a non-household would
 have to evaluate whether or not the “mixture” of drug + pouch materials is a hazardous waste and manage it accordingly.  If it were a hazardous waste, it could not be put in a landfill due to the Subtitle C ban on landfilling hazardous waste. Wisconsin recommends
 that all non-household pharmaceutical waste be incinerated, whether hazardous or not.

 
 
--Barb 

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