Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 18, 2010.
WATSONVILLE — Those pills may dissolve when you flush them, but their chemicals ghost along in our water.
The medicines that help heal may wreak havoc on our ecosystem. Medicines tossed into the trash can leech into ground water and “sharps” — needles and lancets, anything designed to pierce the skin — can stick municipal waste workers, sometimes making them sick. Read More >