At first, I decided to throw them in the trash, but was afraid that expired medicines may find home

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At first, I decided to throw them in the trash, but was afraid that expired medicines may find homeless, and even worse, used shipping containers children. Had the idea to pull down the toilet, but also harm the environment did not want to. Then I decided to ask: where ordinary people can contact if there such a question.
First I called the Grodno Oblast Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. I was told that in Belarus specialized collection points expired medicines from the public does not. The only way out - throw medicine in the trash, after damaging the package so that to him no one got.
Then I went to the Public used shipping containers Information Center on waste and chemical safety in Belarus. There's used shipping containers also received the reply that there is no special collection points, so you should used shipping containers store the expired medicines to better times. If it does prevent unnecessary medication, you can throw them in the trash, used shipping containers but in any case they can not be disposed of down the drain, so as not to hurt people and nature.
- Overdue drugs that accumulate in the population - a serious problem - says Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Drug Supply and competitive procurement Natalia Pozdnyakov. - Of course, no collection point provided to date we do not have, do not take such drugs pharmacies, clinics and hospitals. The only way - to throw in the trash. This applies to tablets, used shipping containers ointments, suppositories and so on. Harmless liquids, such as medicine, tinctures, and the like, can dissolve with water and pour down the drain. used shipping containers This will not cause any harm the environment, because the drug nakaplivayutstsa people not to scale storage. Another used shipping containers thing is toxic, psychotropic or narcotic drugs. However, they are released strictly according to recipes, and it already means that such Medications should be used, rather than accumulate.
Travel across the expanses of the whole of the Internet, the site of the National Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, I found Sanitary used shipping containers rules and norms - "Rules for the Treatment of medical waste."
Once in claim 1 Chapter 1 we read that these "Rules used shipping containers ..." are only "for health-care organizations, as well as all organizations, regardless of their departmental affiliation and ownership ... in the course of medical or other activities that generate medical waste ". This means that ordinary people they do not touch. However, I decided to go on some points in the search for information that could help and common people.
In Ch.9 claim 70 states that "waste subgroup B3 neutralized according to the" Instruction on the rules and methods of disposal of waste pharmaceuticals, medical devices and medical equipment "and" Regulations on the procedure for destruction of drugs, medical devices and medical used shipping containers equipment " .
Peering into the "Regulations ..." and not finding there anything worthy that could help somehow clarify the situation with the disposal of expired medicines, I turned to the "Instruction on the rules and methods of disposal of waste pharmaceuticals, medical devices and medical equipment."
In paragraph 2 of this document is served on the classification of medical products group. According to claim 3 and claim 4, each group of medical waste have to be packed separately, depending on the state of aggregation, primary packaging and other features in accordance with the methods of disposal of waste generated after the destruction of the product. Later in "Instructions ..." fed waste classification and disposal methods are specified.
Thus, solid non-hazardous waste is stored at the location of municipal waste. Liquid harmless waste disposed by dilution with water and then empty into drains. Hazardous waste, depending on the degree used shipping containers of hazard, utilized in several ways: it contains a special hermetic metal capsule or incinerated at high temperatures of 800 to 1200 C and above. Waste resulting from the destruction of antiseptics and disinfectants, neutralized by draining into the sewer in accordance with the instructions for each tool. Needles, scalpels, blades and other similar products seem to be used as a secondary raw material. Glass waste generated as a result of mechanical failure of ampoules, divided into hard impermeable surfaces - in metal barrels, buckets, taking advantage of the solid wooden blocks or a hammer and taken to the municipal waste disposal sites.
Sensible advice, but they concern only medical institutions and executed according to claim 5