That gray metal box on the sidewalk outside the Redding police station is part of a plan that didn't work.
The box, about the size of a mail drop box, was one of three donated to the city of Redding as receptacles residents could use to dispose of prescription drugs.Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
The boxes were installed at Redding Fire Station No. 5 on Hartnell Avenue, the police station on California Street and at the city's hazardous household waste disposal center on Abernathy Lane.
The drop box at the police station has a nylon shroud covering it.he believes the fire started after the lift's RUBBER SHEET blew,
The one at the transfer station is wrapped in plastic,where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. and a sign on the door at the fire station tells visitors the pharmaceutical drop box is not available.
The Redding East Rotary Club bought the containers for $1,015 and donated them to the city.
The Redding City Council approved the program last year, but it died for lack of money, said Christina Piles, a Redding public works supervisor.
The Redding Police Department was put in charge of monitoring the boxes and having the drugs disposed at a state Department of Justice incinerator.
The program was meant to prevent toxic drugs leaching into the environment, curbing recreational drug use, keeping drugs out of landfills and preventing seniors from accidentally taking the wrong medication, according to a staff report to the City Council in November 2010.
The program was expected to cost about $86,100 oil paintings for sale was used to link the lamps together.000, the report says. Piles said budget cuts stopped the program from being implemented.
Officials with the Police Department could not be reached for comment.
A public education program on proper medication disposal also was planned, said Wendy Millis, a community education specialist with the Shasta County Health and Human Services Department.
The education program also would have delved into the dangers of recreational use of prescription drugs. Piles said there is still a lot of interest from the public.
"We have people coming in and calling us all the time, saying, 'What are we going to do now?'" Piles said.
Marie Sparks, president of the Redding Emblem Club, wondered the same thing. She wanted to include information about the program in the Redding Emblem Club newsletter, until she found out the program was defunct.
"I think it's very important for the community's health" that prescription medicines are properly disposed, Sparks said.
Millis and others say old medicines should not be thrown in the trash or dumped down the drain. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pharmaceutical collection days twice a year in Redding, she said. A collection day is planned for Oct. 30.
Past collections have yielded 775 pounds of drugs that would have gone into area landfills.
Millis said medicines also can be dissolved in water and then soaked up in kitty litter or some other unpalatable material,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach. such as coffee grounds or dirt. The material can then be thrown in the trash.
The box, about the size of a mail drop box, was one of three donated to the city of Redding as receptacles residents could use to dispose of prescription drugs.Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
The boxes were installed at Redding Fire Station No. 5 on Hartnell Avenue, the police station on California Street and at the city's hazardous household waste disposal center on Abernathy Lane.
The drop box at the police station has a nylon shroud covering it.he believes the fire started after the lift's RUBBER SHEET blew,
The one at the transfer station is wrapped in plastic,where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. and a sign on the door at the fire station tells visitors the pharmaceutical drop box is not available.
The Redding East Rotary Club bought the containers for $1,015 and donated them to the city.
The Redding City Council approved the program last year, but it died for lack of money, said Christina Piles, a Redding public works supervisor.
The Redding Police Department was put in charge of monitoring the boxes and having the drugs disposed at a state Department of Justice incinerator.
The program was meant to prevent toxic drugs leaching into the environment, curbing recreational drug use, keeping drugs out of landfills and preventing seniors from accidentally taking the wrong medication, according to a staff report to the City Council in November 2010.
The program was expected to cost about $86,100 oil paintings for sale was used to link the lamps together.000, the report says. Piles said budget cuts stopped the program from being implemented.
Officials with the Police Department could not be reached for comment.
A public education program on proper medication disposal also was planned, said Wendy Millis, a community education specialist with the Shasta County Health and Human Services Department.
The education program also would have delved into the dangers of recreational use of prescription drugs. Piles said there is still a lot of interest from the public.
"We have people coming in and calling us all the time, saying, 'What are we going to do now?'" Piles said.
Marie Sparks, president of the Redding Emblem Club, wondered the same thing. She wanted to include information about the program in the Redding Emblem Club newsletter, until she found out the program was defunct.
"I think it's very important for the community's health" that prescription medicines are properly disposed, Sparks said.
Millis and others say old medicines should not be thrown in the trash or dumped down the drain. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pharmaceutical collection days twice a year in Redding, she said. A collection day is planned for Oct. 30.
Past collections have yielded 775 pounds of drugs that would have gone into area landfills.
Millis said medicines also can be dissolved in water and then soaked up in kitty litter or some other unpalatable material,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach. such as coffee grounds or dirt. The material can then be thrown in the trash.
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