Unwanted Medications Collections

Guidance Documents:

• Best Management Practices for Holding Unwanted Medication Collections: A Legal & Safe Approach for Community Pharmacies
  • Quick Guide: Holding an Unwanted Medication Collection for Community Pharmacies
• Collecting Bulk Compounding Chemicals from Pharmacies
• Holding an Unwanted Medication Collection as Part of a Household Hazardous Waste Event
• Managing Plastic Medication Containers
• Operating Unwanted Medication Collections - A Legal & Safe Approach

Case Studies:

• Big Y, Tolland, CT
• Collecting Unwanted Medications in a Mall, Rutland, VT
• Continuing Lessons of Unwanted Medication Collections: A Five-Town Event in Massachusetts
• CVS, Windsor, CT
• Eaton Apothecary, Wellesley, MA
• Franklin County Pilot Unwanted Medications Collection
• In-Store Unwanted Medication Collection CVS Mill Creek, South Portland, Maine
• Ukrop's Super Markets, Richmond, VA
• Unwanted Medication Collection in South Hadley, Massachusetts

Policy Positions:

• Recommendation: Medications Stay in Original Containers
• Recommendations for the Disposal of Unwanted Medications Not Controlled by the U.S. DEA
  

Presentation

• Collecting Unwanted Medications the Legal & Safe Way
• Unwanted Medications Presentation at Michigan Recyclers Coalition Annual Meeting