From 2017 to 2022, the Safe Medicine Disposal Program successfully diverted hundreds of thousands of pounds of unused medications in an effort to prevent harmful medications from coming into contact with people or polluting the environment
The City safely disposed of more than three Muni buses worth of unused medication in the first five years of a program aiming to prevent the drugs from being sold illegally and polluting the environment, San Francisco officials announced Tuesday.
“This is a free program that is simple and convenient for residents to participate in, and the benefits are significant,” Breed said in Tuesday’s release. “This is remarkable to see, almost a decade later, how the program continues to offer major benefits to our city." “You have to have these locations in convenient spots and those convenient spots are where people are typically picking up their prescription medication,” he said. “And then they're dropping off their old ones at the same time.”
Latest Madonna tour repped the Bay Area long before SF stop Matanda Keyes, a multimedia artist who grew up in Oakland, helped design jewelry pieces for the worldwide tour as part of a project that builds on his Bay Area upbringing The unsafe disposal of medication has severe health consequences as well, from more being taken and sold illegally to people accidentally harming themselves by coming into contact with medication.
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