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Today is the day to clean out your medicine cabinet, and these tips can help you clear out everything with less harm to the environment.

Whenever you come across expired prescription medicines and antibiotics, they should be thrown away immediately. By keeping them around your home, they could end up in the wrong hands. Children and pets are curious and can find ways to get into these pills. To dispose of them, do not flush them down the toilet or rinse them down the sink, because this can contaminate drinking water. Instead, remove your personal information from the bottle then duct tape each bottle and triple wrap them in plastic bags. This way when your garbage is collected and smashed, the pills will stay contained. At a landfill, the pills will have less of a chance of contaminating groundwater, because landfills use liners, clays and other materials to protect any underlying aquifers.