In the spirit of spring cleaning, the Drug Collection and Electronics Recycling Event will be held 9 a.m.-noon on April 25 at the Violet Township Service Center, 490 N. Center St.
Participants are asked to enter the event from the North Center Street entrance.
The Fairfield Soil and Water Conservation District – in cooperation with Violet Township; Fairfield County Sheriff’s office; Lancaster-Fairfield County Recycling & Litter Prevention; Family, Adult & Children First Council and Prevention Works for a Drug Free Fairfield County – will be participating in the event.
This event marks an ongoing effort to rid the Pickerington community’s medicine cabinets of potentially dangerous drugs, particularly controlled substances.
Until recently, unused drugs and expired medication were commonly discarded in the trash or flushed down the sink or toilet, leading to the potential contamination of ground water and wastewater treatment plants and causing harm to aquatic life and the human water supply.
Only prescription pills and capsules will be collected. No aerosols, inhalers, liquids, creams, gels, ointments, powders, patches, suppositories, syringes or IVs will be accepted. Please black out all personal information or remove labels before bringing containers to the disposal site.
For those unable to attend, Family, Adult & Children First Council, through Prevention Works for a Drug Free Fairfield County, has placed a drug drop-off box for prescription drugs at the Pickerington Police Department located at 1311 Refugee Rd. Needles and liquids are not permitted to be disposed in the box.
Electronics disposal is also available. The following electronic items may be dropped off at no cost: computers, laptops, printers, cables, mouses, keyboards, discs, electronic clocks, VHS and DVD players, radios and cell phones.
No items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), commonly utilized as a refrigerant or as a propellant in aerosol cans, will be accepted. A certified facility, such as the Lancaster Transfer Station on Ewing Street in Lancaster, must handle the disposal of this compound.
Computer monitors will be accepted at no additional cost if they are included as part of an entire computer system. However, there will be a $3 disposal fee for computer monitors delivered without a processor or tower. Televisions will be accepted at the event at a cost of $1 per diagonal inch.
Call the Fairfield Soil and Water Conservation District office at 740-653-8154 or the Fairfield County Sheriff’s office at 740-652-7900 for more information about prescription drug disposal. Call Patty Bratton with Litter Prevention and Recycling at 740-681-4423 with any electronics questions. Only cash and checks will be accepted as payment for disposal fees.
