Ladispoli – Guidelines for collection of expired medications

L'Municipal Administration remember the ways of delivering expired medications In the special binders found near pharmacies. The medication must be conferred Lacking the box and instructions That should be placed in paper containers. Finally syringes, which must be disposed of in the dry residual (undifferentiated) container after covering the needle with the cap provided, cannot be given.

"Inside the expired medication binders – said the delegate for urban hygiene, Claudio Lupi – Can not be put any other type of waste. In fact, expired medicines are delivered to special disposal facilities, the presence of other waste creates problems and additional costs. For these reasons, if the problem of non-compliance of "expired medicine" waste persists, the municipality will be forced in spite of itself to remove the collectors at the pharmacies and leave active only the one at the ecological island, which is currently the only one controlled".