What To Do with Your Unused Pharmaceuticals (Find a Take-back Locations)

Thinking about cleaning out your medicine cabinet?  If you’re willing to do a little bit of homework, you can learn how to responsibly get rid of expired or unwanted pills, capsules, and other prescription drugs.  Even getting your neighborhood pharmacy to adopt a very inexpensive Green Pharmacy Tool Kit can make a huge difference in [...]

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Keeping the Environment Free of Dental Mercury

The next time you go for a routine teeth cleaning, ask your dentist if they’ve installed a mercury amalgam separator. Conventional dentists typically use amalgam fillings, which contains approximately 49% mercury–one of 12 EPA defined toxins that threatens the health of people and their environment. Dentists are the third largest users of mercury in the [...]

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AMA Urges Precautionary Principle

In an effort to curb pollution from medical waste, the Minnesota delegation of the American Medical Association proposed a policy that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase studies on the public health impact of discarded pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) on the nation’s drinking supplies. In addition, this policy would require [...]

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Prozac Threatens Freshwater Mussels

The American Chemical Society recently revealed that traces of Prozac found in rivers may be contributing to the widespread disappearance of freshwater mussels. In this study, freshwater mussels were directly exposed to serotonin in one group, and in another to fluoxetine — the active ingredient in Prozac. In both cases, mussels prematurely released larvae within [...]

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