• Take your unused or expired medicine to a participating pharmacy listed below and staff will collect them FREE of charge and place them in a secure bin.
• If you bring prescription bottles, please take them home and recycle them. Some pharmacies may recycle bottles with labels removed.
• Do not flush medications down the toilet or drain.
• Do not dispose in trash receptacles.
• Click here for a list of accepted items.
  

Dispose of Your Medicine Correctly! Why?

• Keeps children safe from accidental poisoning
• Avoids dosing errors or intentional abuse of medicines

There is growing evidence that trace amounts of pharmaceuticals are being found in our waterways. Although much research in this area is still underway, there are indications that hormone medications, antidepressants, antibiotics, and personal care products can negatively affect aquatic ecosystems.

It is important not to let prescriptions or over the counter medications into our waterways, and prevention starts in your home. Just as you wouldn’t empty expired prescriptions in the ocean or your favorite vacation lake, it is equally as important to not flush prescriptions down the toilet or drains.

One of the typical ways that people incorrectly dispose of old medicines is to flush them down the toilet or drain.These medicines make their way to the wastewater treatment plant which is designed to remove biodegradable organic material but is not designed to remove low concentrations of synthetic pollutants such as pharmaceuticals.

So, do not flush those medicines anymore! Take them to one of these pharmacies.

Santa Rosa

• Costco Pharmacy - 1900 Santa Rosa Avenue
• Creekside Pharmacy - 95 Montgomery Drive
• Dollar Drug - 1055 W. College Avenue
• CVS Pharmacy - 2771 4th Street
• CVS Pharmacy - 2075 Mendocino Avenue
• CVS Pharmacy - 463 Stony Point Road
• The Medicine Shoppe- 990 Sonoma Avenue
• Tuttles Hoen Pharmacy - 4731 Hoen Avenue
• Tuttles Doyle Park Pharmacy - 1220 Sonoma Avenue
• Walgreens Drug Store - 3093 Marlow Road
• Walgreens Drug Store - 4610 Sonoma Highway

Sebastopol

• CVS Pharmacy - 788 Gravenstein Hwy North
• Safeway - 406 N. Main Street

Rohnert Park

• Costco Pharmacy - 5901 Redwood Drive
• CVS Pharmacy - 6378 Commerce Boulevard

Cotati

• Walgreens Drug Store - 7800 Old Redwood Highway

In addition to this Safe Medicine Disposal Program you may also take expired or unused pharmaceuticals to the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency all year round. The Household Toxics Facility is open every week for free drop-off of toxics from Sonoma County residents.

Visit www.RecycleNow.Org or call 707-565-DESK(3375) for hours, location, and more information about the Household Toxics Facility.

For more information on additional disposal sites in Sonoma and Guerneville, please visit the Sonoma County Water Agency's website: www.scwasafemeds.org, or the Russian River Watershed Association website: www.rrwatershed.org/safemeds