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Mary (Pill) Poppins

11.10.2008

Submitted by jharper on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 1:15am.
The Bite:
imageA spoonful of sugar might help those expired malaria pills go down, but ...um, no thanks. Pull this trick outta your carpetbag: Sweep your old, unused meds into a collection bin at one of Washington's Unwanted Medicine Return Pilot Program drop locations, including Group Health Cooperatives and certain Bartell Drugs stores around town. Proper disposal is supereasy (no magic nanny required). And if you just flush or toss the meds, they can seep into our drinking water since most plants aren't designed to filter 'em out. Instead, the program incinerates the returned meds. Superpilldisposalistic. 
Wanna Try: 
Unwanted Medicine Return Pilot Program (800-RECYCLE); Bartell Drugs Upper Queen Anne Pharmacy, 1929 Queen Anne Ave. N. (206-285-0200). For more info on proper med disposal, check out the Daily Tip.
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Cocktail Fact

In Mary Poppins, many of the nannies in the large queue of applicants for MP's job - at the beginning of the film - were actually men in drag.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 Seattle Biters return 30 pills instead of dumping or flushing them, we'll keep the weight of six nannies in chems outta our waterways.

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ber  on November 13, 2009 at 02:25 AM 1
And if you just flush or toss the meds, they can seep into our drinking water since most plants aren't designed to filter 'em out. Instead, the program incinerates the returned meds games adventure games

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