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Are unused and expired medications filling up your medicine cabinet? Don’t flush them down the drain or throw them in the trash. Help protect your family and the environment by taking your unwanted medication to a participating take-back location.

Why is this a problem?
Recent studies show that pharmaceuticals in rivers and streams, if present at high enough concentrations, can harm aquatic wildlife. When flushed down the drain, some medications are not completely removed by wastewater treatment plants and are discharged to surface waters. Proper disposal of unused pharmaceuticals can help protect the environment.

RRWA Safe Medicine Disposal Program
To address this issue the RRWA is partnering with local agencies, pharmacies and law enforcement offices to provide safe medicine disposal locations in the Russian River Watershed.

Items Accepted:

  • Prescription and over-the-counter -pills and capsules
  • Liquid medications, including ointments, lotions and creams (in sealed containers please!)
  • Veterinary medications
  • Vitamins, supplements, homeopathic remedies
  • Medical patches
  • Inhalers (empty)
  • Medical samples.

Items not Accepted:

  • Controlled substances (accepted at law enforcement locations but not at pharmacies).
  • IV bags
  • Bloody or infectious waste
  • Personal care products (body lotion, shampoo etc.)
  • Aerosol cans
  • Epi-pens and other needles/sharps
  • Thermometers
  • Illegal drugs
  • Medical marijuana
  • Any other waste or medication not listed under “Items Accepted”

How to participate:

  • Bring unwanted medication to a participating location for safe disposal during business hours.

  • Remove medication from containers and deposit in the disposal bin. Locations in stores will be near the pharmacy.

  • Any controlled substances must be taken to police stations; they cannot be accepted at pharmacies.

Drop off locations:

 

Cloverdale
Cloverdale Pharmacy
790 South Cloverdale Blvd.
707-894-4414

Cotati
Walgreens
7800 Old Redwood Hwy.
707-795-6014

Guerneville
Lark's Drugs
16251 Main St.
707-869-9055

Safeway Pharmacy
16405 River Rd.
707-869-0613

Healdsburg
Healdsburg Police Department
238 Center St.
707-431-3377

Rohnert Park
Costco Pharmacy
5901 Redwood Dr.
707-540-9118

CVS Pharmacy
6378 Commerce Blvd.
707-762-0133

Santa Rosa
Costco Pharmacy
1900 Santa Rosa Ave.
707-566-6420

Creekside Pharmacy
95 Montgomery Dr.
707-525-1130

CVS Pharmacy
2771 4th St.
707-528-1151

CVS Pharmacy
2075 Mendocino Ave.
707-542-4480

CVS Pharmacy
463 Stony Point Rd.
707-526-7821

Dollar Drug
1055 W. College Ave.
707-57856-1313


Santa Rosa (continued)
The Medicine Shoppe
990 Sonoma Ave.
707-544-1480

Tuttles Hoen Pharmacy
4731 Hoen Ave.
707-528-4511

Tuttles Doyle Park Pharmacy
1220 Sonoma Ave.
707-546-9090

Walgreens
3093 Marlow Rd.
707-569-8504

Walgreens
4610 Sonoma Hwy.
707-538-9275

Sebastapol
CVS Pharmacy
788 Gravenstein Hwy. North
707-823-7062

Safeway Pharmacy
406 N. Main St.
707-823-1101

Sonoma
Long's Drugs
201 West Napa St.
707-938-4738

Rite Aide
Maxwell Village Shopping Center
19205 Sonoma Hwy.
707-938-0281

Safeway Pharmacy
477 West Napa St.
707-996-3697

Ukiah
Walgreens
630 E. Perkins St.
707-462-1291

Windsor
Health First
9070 Windsor Rd
.
707-837-7948

Mendocino County
The Mendocino Solid Waste Management Authority accepts unused medicine through their HazMobile Program. (www.mendorecycle.org/haz.html)

Sonoma County
The Sonoma County Waste Management Agency accepts unused medicine at their household toxics facility and through their toxics rover pick up program. (www.recyclenow.org/r_householdtoxics.html)

For further information, see also:

Safe Medicines Disposal Brochure

City of Santa Rosa Safe Medicine Disposal Program

Sonoma County Water Agency Safe Medicine Disposal Program

Program Partners:

City of Cloverdale

City of Healdsburg

Mendocino Solid Waste Management Authority

City of Santa Rosa

Sonoma County Water Agency

Sonoma County Waste Management Agency

City of Ukiah

Town of Windsor