Here's The Greenest Option For Unused Medicine

Trash Can May Be Greenest
Option For Unused Drugs
by Ted Burnham | NPR

"...take-back programs have been springing up at pharmacies and police departments lately...

...researchers at the University of Michigan, writing this week in Environmental Science and Technology, say they've determined that trashing drugs, paradoxically, may be the most environmentally-friendly option...

...Drugs collected by take-back programs are incinerated, which means none of the medicines themselves enter the environment. But the programs produce much greater emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants than either flushing or trashing...."