Returning Unwanted Medicines
As easy as 1,2,3,4
By returning out-of-date and unwanted medicines to your local pharmacy, we can make our home a safer place.
Click here to find out how to return.
Pharmacy Collection Procedure
PROTOCOL FOR PHARMACISTS
A RUM Project approved container (the container) is delivered by the selected wholesaler to the participating pharmacy.
Please refer to the "Pharmacists" icon for Protocol pertaining to your State or Territory.
Links
Council on the Ageing – COTA www.cota.org.au
Pharmacy Guild of Australia www.guild.org.au
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia www.psa.org.au
National Prescribing Service www.nps.org.au
Department of Health and Ageing www.health.gov.au/
Environmental Health Australia www.eh.org.au
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) www.epa.gov/nerlesd1/chemistry/pharma/index.htm
World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for donations:
www.who.int/hac/techguidance/guidelines_for_drug_donations.pdf