While disposing unused prescription drugs and medicines, some of us flush them down the toilet. This is not the right way, we have to make sure that we get rid of expired and unused medicines in the right way. Civic authorities in big town recycle sewerage.
This process makes use of converting sewage to fertilizers and reusing the water. So if medicines are flushed down the toilet drain, they will ultimately get in contact with the vegetables and fruit through the fertilizer. Some amount of medicines will be ingested by the plants and then reach our stomach when we eat these vegetables, with all their effects and side effects. The harmful bacteria in our body can even develop resistance due to intake of antibiotics. So all unused medicines should be disposed as solid waste.
Here is how to dispose medicines, expired medicines and unused one. Tablets and capsules should be removed from strips and crushed. Liquid medicines from bottles and vials need to be emptied into the wash basin, broken into pieces and disposed with household waste. Special care needs to be taken to dispose inhales because rag pickers can sell them to manufacturers who make fake drugs.
