Look at the news from Knows reporter Zhu Jiawei
2022-02-10 10:46
Many aunts and uncles have some standing medicines in their homes, if the shelf life is over, what will you do with it? It is not advisable to throw it directly into the trash like this, because the drug components enter the environment with domestic garbage or through the sewers, and will become a new type of pollutant called PPCPs, which will not only threaten surface water, affect crops, but also enter the human body through the food chain.
So, how should expired drugs be disposed of? Give you the point! If it is a solid pill such as tablets and capsules, it can be cut out of the inner packaging and placed in a paper bag or plastic bag and put into a hazardous garbage bin. If it is an oral liquid, external liquid and other liquid drugs, it is recommended that you throw them directly into the hazardous garbage bin together with the packaging that touches the drug; if it is a spray, the drug can be completely emptied in an outdoor environment with good air circulation and no open flame, and then the empty bottle is thrown into the hazardous garbage bin.
There is also a way, all retail pharmacies in the city have set up drug recycling bins, you can also take expired drugs to the nearby pharmacy to ask them to recycle!
(Look at the news Knows reporter: Zhu Jiawei Review: Wang Yan Intern: Cheng Yingjie)
