Medication

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Recycling methods

Waste Information

Expired medication (also liquids) can be returned to a pharmacy free of charge. Do not flush medication down the drain or throw them into a waste container!

Bring the following medicines in a transparent bag:

• loose tablets, capsules
• blister packs without a carton wrapper
• creams, sticks and liquid medicines in their own packaging
• inhalation powders and liquids
• transdermal patches and nicotine patches. 

Please bring these separately from other pharmaceutical waste:

• drugs containing iodine
• mercury thermometers
• syringes and needles
• cytostatic agents in their original packaging. 

For data security reasons, remove the instruction labels containing patient information from the medicine packaging.