ROCHESTER, NY — The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is asking residents who live near the Great Lakes to refrain from flushing medicine down the sink and toilet.
The effort is part of the agency’s Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge, in which the EPA said it would like to collect at least 1 million pills and 1 million pounds of electronic waste from communities located near the Great Lakes.
The effort is taking place here and in the Buffalo and Syracuse areas of upstate New York. Events also are being planned in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Collections stations will be set up during Earth Week, April 19-27, to receive unwanted prescription and non-prescription medications, EPA said.
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