Do you have a medicine cabinet full of expired prescriptions? Or maybe like me, you just have a couple of old allergy medicine bottles with a dose or two left in them. Or maybe like my husband, you got the wrong prescription from a mail order pharmacy that wouldn’t take it back when they sent the correct prescription.

Regardless, you will soon have an easy and environmentally safe way to dispose of those old, unused, or otherwise expired prescriptions. Bartell Drugs will be installing secure drop boxes in many of their locations over the next few months. [Link]

If you can’t wait until your local Bartell’s installs a drop box, you can find a Group Health Cooperative pharmacy that will accept unused medications. [Link]. Whatever you do, don’t just throw the medication away. It can end up in a landfill where the medicine can make it into lakes, streams, or ground water.