Kingston University is working on a trial project to help people learn to dispose of unused medicines safely.

Kingston University and Kingston Council launch project to promote safe medicine disposal

The Let’s Dispose of Unused Medicines Safely project launches this month and will see students from Kingston’s Science Foundation Year course work with local pharmacies to inform the public on how to dispose of medication while causing minimal environmental harm. The academic lead for the project, Dr Diyan Gunasekera, explained the importance of safely disposing of unused medicines to help protect the environment. She said: “Our students will dr…

Kingston University is working on a trial project to help people learn to dispose of unused medicines safely.

Kingston University is working on a trial project to help people learn to dispose of unused medicines safely. Students are working to create informative stickers which will eventually be put on medicines distributed by select pharmacies. Let’s Dispose of Unused Medicines Safely is running in three phases until May. If successful, it’s hoped it can be rolled out further after that. An official launch event is planned for next month.