No Scrub Cleaning.. I like!

[CanadianBella]

My mom used to be a Pharmacy Tech, and she was saying how when they would get people bring back their prescriptions they would just put it in a mop bucket of hot water, and either flush it, or pour it down the drain when the pills broke and mixed with the water.

So I had some medicine from a looooooong time ago, capsules.

I filled the sink with hot water, and put them in. Well who would've know, the plasticy coating melted, but it stuck to the bottom of the sink and later wouldn't come off!

I mixed palmolive, and baking soda and filled the sink w/ hot water again, and let it be w/ the mix.

I went back an hour later, and the sink is pure white, the plastic crap gone, and the water marks weren't even there (the red stuff)

I think I could be a scientist.

*ETA ; i'm going to try it on the bathtub today. IDK what happened but a bottle of IrishSpring fell off the ledge overnight and it's stuck. I bet my mom is wondering why I keep taking baking ingredients to the washroom LOL. I have the worst luck with things getting stuck, like Sparky and tape.

[GoJays]

you can't just pour your old medications down the drain... regardless of what they are, you have to take them back to the pharmacy for proper disposal.. I can't believe that the pharmacy that your mother worked at would be so careless as to just dump everything down the sink.. that stuff gets into the water supply!

[Natalka]

Bella, that is a HUGE no-no! Oy!

[Natalka]

The Risks of Improper Disposal of Drugs

When prescription or over-the-counter drugs are thrown into the garbage, or flushed down the sink or toilet, their chemical components may be added to the water supply or soil. The presence of these substances in the environment is becoming an important national and international issue. Although the concentration levels of these products in the environment may be very low, they may be enough to have adverse effects on the environment and, indirectly, on human health. Of particular concern are the potential adverse effects of cumulative, long-term exposure to trace amounts and mixtures of pharmaceuticals on vulnerable populations, including pregnant women, newborns, and children.
Although there is not yet any solid evidence, there is also some concern about leftover prescriptions drugs, which are disposed of into the environment, possibly adding to the problem of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is believed to be caused by the overuse or inappropriate use of prescription drugs, such as antibiotics, in preventing or treating infection and disease in people, animals and plants. When antibiotics are used inappropriately (for example, a drug prescribed to fight infection is not taken as directed), the weak germs are killed but the stronger, more resistant ones survive and multiply. These drug-resistant germs make it harder to prevent and treat infections and diseases because fewer antibiotics are effective against them.


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If your pharmacy doesn't have a drug takeback program, your community probably has a hazardous waste collection day, to which they can be taken.


http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv...ire-eng.php#pr

[CanadianBella]

you can't just pour your old medications down the drain... regardless of what they are, you have to take them back to the pharmacy for proper disposal.. I can't believe that the pharmacy that your mother worked at would be so careless as to just dump everything down the sink.. that stuff gets into the water supply!

Most phamacys now do it too, Our personal one does also.

[saradouce]

Nah... impossible that they just pour it done!!
In Quebec, gov. makes a publicity to remind us to bring the meds back to pharmacy!

[GoJays]

omg! no! most pharmacies don't do that! not the reputable ones anyway

[MrsSunshine]

no way. really.. our pharmacy takes all meds and disposes of them ecofriendly. never ever put them down the drain. that stuff goes right out to the lakes/rivers..

from now on take the meds to a different pharmacy but continue using the mix. sounds like its working.

[CanadianBella]

Everytime I post (look at my recent threads if you don't believe me) someone turns something I said around on me and people jump on me.

I don't know why I even bother anymore.


This is what * I * was TOLD was right, and obviously I should believe my mother, right?

[saradouce]

We did not jump on you.
We did jump on the dangerous way that you eliminate meds and saying to others to do it.
Now, calm down
What we've said was right, as much as you're cleaning tip was right.
BUT needless to say that there are some people on the forum that take everything that a experimented SC'er says for cash.

Informing everyone that flushing down meds is NOT a good thing and not the right way to do it prevent our water source to be contaminate by chemical agent.

Also, I always believe my mother first, but she is not always right. I sometime find something that works better for me.
You did find something great from your experiment? Isn't it?

[CanadianBella]

We did not jump on you.
We did jump on the dangerous way that you eliminate meds and saying to others to do it.
Now, calm down
What we've said was right, as much as you're cleaning tip was right.
BUT needless to say that there are some people on the forum that take everything that a experimented SC'er says for cash.

Informing everyone that flushing down meds is NOT a good thing and not the right way to do it prevent our water source to be contaminate by chemical agent.

Also, I always believe my mother first, but she is not always right. I sometime find something that works better for me.
You did find something great from your experiment? Isn't it?

I never learned that, I was homeschooled and my teacher never mentioned it, and when I was told I should 'melt' them, I believed it...

I didn't mean to anger anyone, i just really didn't know it was a bad thing. I saw on an intervention show one time a girl flushed the other person pills..

Huh?

[neelkamalll1979]

Oh if I believed everything my mother said....

[abbasgirl]

I never learned that, I was homeschooled and my teacher never mentioned it, and when I was told I should 'melt' them, I believed it...

I didn't mean to anger anyone, i just really didn't know it was a bad thing. I saw on an intervention show one time a girl flushed the other person pills..

Huh?

Aw!!! It's OK, Bella!!!
How the heck were you supposed to know if your mom's pharmacy did it that way? It is a very common way that people dispose of meds.
I think people are just surprised to hear of a pharmacy doing that. The reason people bring them back to the pharmacy is because they've been told not to flush them and that the pharmacy will dispose of them safely.

[CanadianBella]

Thank you I thought if it were diluted it wouldn't be as bad.

[Natalka]

Bella, the intention was to give correct information for you - when one knows better, one does better.