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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wisconsin estimated the amounts generated, discarded and collected in its 2012 report
<i>Wisconsin Household Pharmaceutical Waste Collection: Challenges and Opportunities.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Page 5 of the report describes the sources and pages 6-8 estimated costs for collection. The report also describes the limitations of these estimates, which are important
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The report was written by the University of Wisconsin Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center and the Product Stewardship Institute, and commissioned by the Wisconsin DNR.
It is available on-line at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/HealthWaste/documents/2012HouseholdPharmStudy.pdf">http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/HealthWaste/documents/2012HouseholdPharmStudy.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#984806">Barb Bickford</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Medical Waste Coordinator and Hydrogeologist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Waste and Materials Mgt/AWaRe Division<br>
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources<br>
101 S. Webster St., PO Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707-7921<br>
Phone: 608-267-3548<br>
Fax: 608-267-2768<br>
barbara.bickford@wisconsin.gov<br>
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