Sensible Disposal of Unwanted Medicines - New York Sea Grant

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20What should I be concerned about?> InstructorPlease take 5-10 minutes to reflect on what youdid today, what you learned, and what questionsyou have. Write about this experience in yourjournal. Be sure to put today’s date on your entrypage.Journaling is a great way for youth toprocess what they have learned. By askingwhether they have questions after they havehad some time to write, you may stimulate abrief discussion of future project activitiesand/or alert you to where more informationis needed. It is especially helpful if you canhave a small notebook or other special wayfor the students to keep their personal notes.Collect the journals between meetings to reviewwhat the youth learned or to makenote of questions that they did not sharealoud. Collecting the journals will also ensurethat youth will have them for the nextmeeting.Note for following week: Plan to post theflip chart sheets for the next meeting to remindthe youth about this activity.Evaluation Strategies• What medicines are of particular concern withrespect to our environment?• What does PPCP stand for? (Pharmaceuticalsand Personal Care Products)• What PPCPs have been identified as causingpossible environmental harm?Share Your Knowledge• Speech and demonstrations (including Actiondemonstrations)• Information display boards• Jr. Leader activities• Mentoring a younger 4-H memberReferences• www.epa.gov/ppcp - U.S. EPA: see the BasicInformation tab and the poster, Origins and Fateof PPCPs in the Environment (PDF), at the bottomof that page.• www.iisgcp.org/unwantedmeds -Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program: Disposal ofUnwanted Medicines: A Resources for Action inYour Community; Chapter 1, Introduction andBackground – see the PDF Introduction file fora wealth of information.• http://toxics.usgs.gov/regional/emc - UnitedStates Geology Survey (USGS), Emerging Contaminantsin the Environment.• Appendix D gives background informationfrom the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant website,www.iisgcp.org/unwantedmeds.Science StandardsAppendix CLife SkillsInformation gathering, informal analysis, anddecision making.Success IndicatorsYouth understand and can both correctly locateand present data on the PPCPs of primary concernto water quality and our environment.Youth can share what they learned during thissession in many ways. The following are someexamples:
What are my options?21General Objectives• Learn recommended ways to reduce use ofmedicines and personal care products.• Explore where unused or expired medicinescan be properly disposed of in their communityand who they can talk to about the issue.Specific ObjectivesYouth will:• Investigate local alternatives for proper disposalof expired and unused medicines.• Explore important aspects involved withproper disposal, such as safety, cost, and whatreporting requirements exist.TimeOne hour, plus research timeResources needed_______________ActivityMarkersFlip chartsPoster boards for displaysComputer accessJournalsYouth will work in teams to brainstorm how theycan help address improper disposal of expiredand unused medicines. They will consider communityeducation opportunities and investigatecommunity collection options for unused or expiredmedicines and PPCPs (pharmaceutical andpersonal care products). If no current options arefound in the community, youth will explore howto get a collection started and what action stepsshould be taken.InstructionsGather materials and resources for students to usefor research and discovery. Youth should work inteams of 2-4. Instructions can be read before theybegin working, written on the board, or projectedon an overhead.> InstructorWe have explored the fact that our environment isbeing contaminated by medicines that are flusheddown toilets. Each of you should have a good understandingof this issue and its possible consequences.Our next tasks are to figure out how wecan help others understand the issues and explorewhat options we have in our community for theproper disposal of medicines (and other PPCPs).You will work in groups of 2-4 to determine howyou can answer some questions. Each group hasbeen provided a flip chart and markers. Write thefollowing questions at the top of a new sheet, andthen brainstorm possible answers.• How should expired and unused medicines bedisposed of?• What local alternatives for disposal of expiredand unused medicines are available in ourcommunity?• What must be considered for the proper disposalof unwanted medicine?• What are the costs and benefits of different disposaloptions? Consider safety, cost, and anyreporting requirements that you learn about.• What sensible disposal options are available inour community for expired and unused medicines?– If there are currently no options for properdisposal of medicines:° Who might hold a collection event?° What steps should be involved in planningan event?° What organizations can help with thisevent?Allow 10-15 minutes for youth to thinkabout these questions and review any answersthat they may already know from previousresearch. This activity builds uponActivity 2—What are the issues?—so theyouth should not need as much guidance asin previous lessons. They may already havecollected some information on this topicduring that activity.
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