Although I don’t trust doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, particularly since the plandemic, they will argue that you can’t flush them down the toilet because the vast majority are small molecules that can’t be filtered out by typical water purification methods and other people would be drinking the water that still contains medication. My suggestion is to get completely off pharmaceuticals and go back to homeopathic treatments. That way you won’t have to flush any medications down the toilet.
Instead of flushing unused medicine people should contact their pharmacy about disposing of unused medicine. I am not on any prescriptions but found out this was possible after my mom died.
I knew a dentist that would Rx pain meds for his patients, and tell them if they didn't use them all bring them back to him for disposal. He disposed of them alright, right down his own esophagus. True story.
My BIL passed away in his sleep. My wife and I went over to his house at around six in the morning. The county coroner was called and the sheriff's department also. When the cops arrived, the first thing they asked, and I mean not even "we have sympathy for your loss", was "Does your husband have any prescription medicines....we need to take them." Well, before the cops arrived we got hold of all the good medicines and left the ones that were worthless. What the cops were doing was making sure nobody could get hold of the medicines and use it for themselves. I could care less about their wanting to keep medicines off the street but my SIL has control of those medicines now and the cops should go pound sand. Heck, if he had tons of IVM you bet your bottom dollar I'd have made sure the cops wouldn't have gotten them. No telling what the cops did with the meds they did retrieve, though. Probably self medicated in the squad car.
That's so sad. When my mom passed the hospice nurse destroyed the pain meds right in front of us while we waited for the funeral home to pick up my mom's body. mixing them with stuff rending them unusable I watched her with my own eyes . The other meds we returned to the pharmacy. Nobody in my family would have used the pain meds anyway.
Too bad to hear about the cops, some really want to serve and protect, some are just bullies with badges.
Sewers are somewhat sanitized and then released directly into waterways. Forever chemicals and all.
Landfills have clay barriers, plastic liners, liquid collection systems, etc.
Landfills in America aren't just dumps like farmers used to do in the 1700s by just piling shit up on the side of the property. Landfills don't dump all liquids into the ground water.
I don't use a sewer. I have a septic tank that empties into a drain field in my yard. I don't believe the local landfill here has any of those modern extras. Everything gets dumped there, even the supposed recyclables. And any liquid gets into the ground.
Sewers don't really work the way you think either. I have toured the one in my former town. The crap comes in and has a ton of chlorine added to kill the smell. Then it goes into huge settling tanks full of bacteria and worms. Occasionally, the water from the tanks, which is clean, except for bacteria and worms, is flushed into the river. At the outlet, there are ducks gathered every day to get all the free worms. They are very healthy ducks. The solids are removed from the settling tanks and piled in a nearby field. Farmers come and get the solids to use as fertilizer on their farms.
BTW, most chemicals aren't forever. They break down. Aspirin breaks down into acetic acid. Aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde. Etc. Only the simplest chemicals don't break down.
Although I don’t trust doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, particularly since the plandemic, they will argue that you can’t flush them down the toilet because the vast majority are small molecules that can’t be filtered out by typical water purification methods and other people would be drinking the water that still contains medication. My suggestion is to get completely off pharmaceuticals and go back to homeopathic treatments. That way you won’t have to flush any medications down the toilet.
Instead of flushing unused medicine people should contact their pharmacy about disposing of unused medicine. I am not on any prescriptions but found out this was possible after my mom died.
I knew a dentist that would Rx pain meds for his patients, and tell them if they didn't use them all bring them back to him for disposal. He disposed of them alright, right down his own esophagus. True story.
My BIL passed away in his sleep. My wife and I went over to his house at around six in the morning. The county coroner was called and the sheriff's department also. When the cops arrived, the first thing they asked, and I mean not even "we have sympathy for your loss", was "Does your husband have any prescription medicines....we need to take them." Well, before the cops arrived we got hold of all the good medicines and left the ones that were worthless. What the cops were doing was making sure nobody could get hold of the medicines and use it for themselves. I could care less about their wanting to keep medicines off the street but my SIL has control of those medicines now and the cops should go pound sand. Heck, if he had tons of IVM you bet your bottom dollar I'd have made sure the cops wouldn't have gotten them. No telling what the cops did with the meds they did retrieve, though. Probably self medicated in the squad car.
That's so sad. When my mom passed the hospice nurse destroyed the pain meds right in front of us while we waited for the funeral home to pick up my mom's body. mixing them with stuff rending them unusable I watched her with my own eyes . The other meds we returned to the pharmacy. Nobody in my family would have used the pain meds anyway. Too bad to hear about the cops, some really want to serve and protect, some are just bullies with badges.
My doctors have actually told me to flush medicines down the toilet, rather than throwing them in the trash. Both routes go into the ground anyway.
Not really.
Sewers are somewhat sanitized and then released directly into waterways. Forever chemicals and all.
Landfills have clay barriers, plastic liners, liquid collection systems, etc.
Landfills in America aren't just dumps like farmers used to do in the 1700s by just piling shit up on the side of the property. Landfills don't dump all liquids into the ground water.
I don't use a sewer. I have a septic tank that empties into a drain field in my yard. I don't believe the local landfill here has any of those modern extras. Everything gets dumped there, even the supposed recyclables. And any liquid gets into the ground.
Sewers don't really work the way you think either. I have toured the one in my former town. The crap comes in and has a ton of chlorine added to kill the smell. Then it goes into huge settling tanks full of bacteria and worms. Occasionally, the water from the tanks, which is clean, except for bacteria and worms, is flushed into the river. At the outlet, there are ducks gathered every day to get all the free worms. They are very healthy ducks. The solids are removed from the settling tanks and piled in a nearby field. Farmers come and get the solids to use as fertilizer on their farms.
BTW, most chemicals aren't forever. They break down. Aspirin breaks down into acetic acid. Aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde. Etc. Only the simplest chemicals don't break down.