2 expired drugs cannot be treated as domestic garbage, and expired drugs cannot simply be treated as domestic garbage. The pollution caused by an expired drug is equivalent to the pollution caused by three batteries, which can pollute a person's water consumption for about five years. If buried in the soil, it will pollute the soil and destroy the soil quality. If a large number of expired drugs are discarded or buried at will, it will cause great pollution to soil, water and air quality.
3 Classification of Garbage What garbage in China is generally divided into four categories: kitchen garbage, recyclable garbage, harmful waste and other garbage.
1, recyclable garbage mainly includes plastic, glass, waste paper, metal and cloth. Waste paper does not include toilet paper and paper towels.
2. Kitchen waste includes food waste such as bones, peels, leftovers, vegetable roots and leaves, which can be used as organic fertilizer after treatment.
3. Hazardous wastes mainly include batteries, lamps, expired drugs, thermometers, etc.
4. Other garbage is garbage other than these three categories, that is, tiles, toilet paper, paper towels, etc.
4 What are the hazards of expired drugs? Eating expired drugs by mistake will delay the patient's condition, make the patient's condition not treated in time, and may even worsen, affecting the patient's health.
Expired health care products that make people allergic can easily cause allergies if they are ingested, which is not only harmful to human health, but also may endanger human health.
If the expired drugs that flow into the market again are not treated effectively or in time, they will easily be recycled and processed by some unscrupulous merchants at low prices and then flow into the market again, which will do harm to human health.
The expired drugs that pollute the environment will pollute the air quality if they are not handled properly, and will cause great pollution to the soil and water quality if they are thrown away and buried at will.