Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato today announced that the concerted efforts of Ocean County Law Enforcement and residents continue to bring great success in disposing of unused prescription medications.
On Thursday, OCPO broke the previous pill burn record of 4460 lbs. by supervising the safe disposal of 4,520 lbs. (equivalent of over 2 tons) of unused prescription meds.
Since the programs start in the summer of 2014, thirty one thousand three hundred sixty (31,360) pounds of various medicines have been destroyed between October 3, 2014 and December 14, 2017.
Below is the list of burn dates and totals:
- October 3, 2014 2220 lbs.
- March 27, 2015 2880 lbs.
- July 17, 2015 2520 lbs.
- October 29, 2015 2300 lbs.
- December 2, 2015 1040 lbs.
- April 13, 2016 2380 lbs.
- July 20, 2016 2960 lbs.
- October 26, 2016 2800 lbs
- March 1, 2017 3280 lbs
- August 3, 2017 4,460 lbs
- December 14, 2017 4,420 lbs
Project Medicine Drop is the countywide initiative to make disposal of unused medications an easy convenient priority for Ocean County residents. With just under half of the municipalities in Ocean County having easily accessible medication drop boxes at police department entrances, there is no excuse not to clean out and drop off these potentially dangerous meds. Please do your part to “Clean Out & Drop Off” those unused meds.
Nit-picky comment of the day — 4,000+ pounds IS over 2 tons it is not “equivalent” as such term would be used i you were comparing different types of measurements (water pressure to pounds for instance). TONS and POUNDS are in the same measurement family 🙂