Waste containers supplies

 

Waste pharmaceuticals down the drain. Waste containers supplies  As a society we didn’t know how detrimental these drugs would be to the environment. Now biologists have found residual pharmaceuticals in fish and other aquatic organisms, and we are understanding how bad the untreated disposal of drugs is. As responsible citizens and waste managers, we need to keep the Precautionary Principle in mind. Pharmaceuticals encompass a huge range of chemical compounds and they have all sorts of different effects on humans, animals, and plants. You need to be careful with all of them. Some medicines, such as those used to treat cancer, are outright dangerous (genotoxic or cytotoxic) and healthcare workers have to be protected from exposure. Pharmaceutical wastes can be irritants to body tissues.Outside of their biological properties, pharmaceutical wastes can be hazardous the same way many chemicals are. They can be ignitable, corrosive, or highly reactive. Some drugs are genotoxic or mutagenic - aside from being dangerous to release to the environment, these can cause cancer and reproductive problems in healthcare workers.