Even if you're careful, drugs can end up in your water

What are people dumping in YOUR local landfill?

One of our terrific distributors just sent me a link to a disturbing article that I wanted you to be aware of. An article about drugs in our water appeared yesterday on Comcast.net. You can read the entire report at http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-health/20100207/US.PharmaWater.Land...

Here is a portion of the bad news:
"PORTLAND, Maine — The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.

Tiny amounts of discarded drugs have been found in water at three landfills in the state, confirming suspicions that pharmaceuticals thrown into household trash are ending up in water that drains through waste, according to a survey by the state's environmental agency that's one of only a handful to have looked at the presence of drugs in landfills.

That landfill water — known as leachate — eventually ends up in rivers. Most of Maine doesn't draw its drinking water from rivers where the leachate ends up, but in other states that do, water supplies that come from rivers could potentially be contaminated.

The results of the survey are being made known as lawmakers in Maine consider a bill, among the first of its kind in the nation, that would require drug manufacturers to develop and pay for a program to collect unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs from residents and dispose of them."

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- Trina -