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PHARMACEUTICAL COLLECTION
PROGRAM UPDATE
David Wyatt
Household Hazardous Waste Program Supervisor
March 8, 2021
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PROGRAM HISTORY
• Program development began in 2005
• Collaborative team was formed in 2008
with Central San staff / Member Hockett,
CCC Sheriff, and RecycleSmart.
• Pilot Program began in February 2009 at
three locations: Walnut Creek City Hall,
CCCRMC, and Sheriff FOB.
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HISTORY CONTINUED
After a successful pilot, the program was
open to all law enforcement agencies in
HHW service area
By the end of 2010, we had 11 collection
sites. Lafayette and Alamo were added by
2013 for a total of 13 collection sites
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COLLECTION TOTALS
Through December 2020, the program
collected and properly disposed of a total
of 146,800 pounds of medications at a
cost of about $310,000
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NEW PROGRAMS
• Late 2018, CCC Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance
began requiring manufacturers to be responsible for
collection and disposal
• MED-Project is the product stewardship
organization used in CCC, as well as 13 other cities
and counties in California
• MED-Project operates *23 sites at Kaiser and CVS
pharmacies in HHW service area
'One of their sites is San Ramon PD, which converted from
our program in late 2019
NEW PROGRAMS CONT.
• There are also 10 voluntary retail collection sites in
the service area located at Safeway and some
Walgreen's pharmacies
• Later this summer SB 212 will require statewide
collection of pharmaceuticals and sharps, which
may increase the number of collection sites in our
service area
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Annual Pharmaceutical Collection Results
Per Collection Site
3,500 2017 to 2020
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■2017 582 577 2,397 1,718 469 607 1,136 1,004 1,905 1,807 927 248 3,381
■2016 630 527 2,156 1,597 727 677 1,254 1,060 1,749 2,232 1,097 73 3,399
■2019 582 336 1,310 1,415 461 529 993 846 1,581 2,225 743 187 2,398
■2020 90 220 525 713 434 230 391 588 1,064 0 393 66 782
*11/2019-San Ramon PD site converted to Med Project
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Total Pounds Collected Per Year
2017 to 2020
■2017 16,758
■2018 17,178
■2019 13,606
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QUESTIONS?
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