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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">In these times of tightening budgets, drug shortages and increasing evidence of the environmental effects of pharmaceuticals, there is now an online tool to help healthcare facilities reduce pharmaceutical waste.
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<div><a href="http://www.uwm.edu/shwec/pharmaceuticalwaste/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>ht</u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>tp://www.uwm.edu/shwec/pharmaceuticalwaste/</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Developed by the University of Wisconsin Extension Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Pharmaceutical Waste Reduction website offers a searchable database
for drugs for which there are documented studies of waste reduction strategies that work. The site describes other strategies facilities might try and offers a process for determining which strategies to try first, based on the facilities’ own priorities.
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The website was designed to be a collaborative effort. Healthcare facilities and researchers are invited to expand the tool by sharing proven waste reduction ideas via an online form. UW Extension has placed an
intern in a Wisconsin hospital to gather and document more ideas for the website. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The website’s development has been funded by the US EPA under a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant for reducing pharmaceutical waste entering the Great Lakes. Thank you, EPA!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#800080"><b>Barb Bickford</b><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">
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</font><font size="1">Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources</font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">
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</font><font size="1">608-267-3548 <br>
</font><font size="1">barbara.bickford@wisconsin.gov</font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000"> </font></font></div>
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