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educating patients on the importance of proper unused drug disposal, educating physicians and patients of proper drug disposal, encouraging pharmaceutical industries to implement strategies for proper disposal of drugs or recycling strategies, and; requiring hospitals to implement better management practices for disposing pharmaceutical waste. [38]
Drugs associated with substance abuse and prohibited drugs receive special attention in their disposal. [14] The police might seize such drugs as contraband, and then have to destroy them. [14] In other cases, some legal drugs create risks for abuse and need more attention in disposal than drugs that are not attractive for abuse. [15]
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) is a term used by water quality professionals to describe pollutants that have been detected in environmental monitoring samples, that may cause ecological or human health impacts, and typically are not regulated under current environmental laws.
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[4] Such a deliberate action may have arisen given the high cost (~$1500/ton) associated with the legal disposal of the waste, thus incentivizing private waste contractors to dump illegally to avoid high fees. Ultimately the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 (MWTA) arose from the aftermath of this situation.
An unused drug or leftover drug is the medicine which remains after the consumer has quit using it. Individual patients may have leftover medicines at the end of their treatment. Health care organizations may keep larger amounts of drugs as part of providing care to a community, and may have unused drugs for a range of reasons.
The dumping of toxic waste is a major issue associated with the production of meth. [12] It has been approximated that for each pound of meth produced, five pounds of toxic waste are also generated. The methods of disposal of these substances can be extremely damaging to the environment as producers may simply pour them down the sink or toilet.